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Video: Dmitry Hvorostovsky: "I have always played an honest game with life"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
All words about him are superlative. Best baritone, Siberian nugget, brilliant opera singer. Only now all this is in the past tense. Dmitry Hvorostovsky sang until the last day of his life. When he could not perform on stage, he sang at home. He enjoyed every moment that fate gave him. He played fair with life and remained the winner.
Much more will be written and said about him. But he himself wanted viewers and listeners to remember only his voice, not trying to find any special meaning in the fables about him. After all, the meaning of his life was music. His whole life passed with her and through her.
Music as a state of mind
Dmitry Hvorostovsky's parents met when dad played the piano and mom sang. At one time, Dmitry's grandfather did not allow his son to become a musician, but Alexander Stepanovich not only preserved his love for music, he passed it on to his son. Dmitry saw his father's need to play music. Not on stage, not for someone else - for yourself. He really absorbed the love of music with his mother's milk. And with the light hand of his father.
In his youth, he was fond of hard rock, solo in a local group. But as he grew up, the role of serious music in his life became brighter and more important. He chose the only possible path for himself - the path of an opera singer. And he achieved the most incredible heights.
At his first International Singer of the World Opera Singing Competition in Cardiff, UK, he was arrogant and even self-confident. Dmitry Hvorostovsky did not yet know the language, did not know anything about abroad, but was already determined to win. Excited to trembling knees, the young singer diligently hid his fear behind arrogance. Then, in 1989, Dmitry won a significant victory for the first time.
He always took criticism hard. When, after the first success, Dmitry relaxed, very well-grounded remarks immediately poured in. They affected the singer like a cold shower. But they served as an incentive to reconsider their attitude to music and to the audience. He began to work harder and harder, without overestimating his talent.
Dmitry Hvorostovsky always remembered one of his first concerts at the bakery. He came along with other artists of the Krasnoyarsk Opera House. The grandparents who came to the concert did not know anything about Dmitry Hvorostovsky, about opera and about Verdi. They loved Kobzon and Leshchenko. But the first sounds poured from the out of tune piano, music began to sound. Real, alive, immortal. A miracle happened. Since then, Dmitry was sure: the viewer is always right. If something goes wrong, whoever is on stage is to blame.
Dream come true
His dream was the role of Rigoletto in the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi, one of the most difficult parts of the baritone repertoire. It was the desire to play the tragic role of a jester that led him to serious music. Dmitry Hvorostovsky dreamed of her. But when I first started singing, I could barely cope with physical and vocal stress.
With each new Rigoletto, Dmitry Hvorostovsky grew up not only as a singer. He grew in his own eyes, each time proving to himself that he can and should sing even better, even stronger. His five Rigolettos are five heights, five milestones in his development.
Art is a shock
In Dmitry Hvorostovsky's understanding, art should be amazing. He himself strove for this all his life. He never had a personal accompanist or his own studio. So he worked at home. Deep independent work, comprehending the image, thinking through each vocal part - this is what his genius was based on. The work is constant, uninterrupted, sometimes on the verge of possibilities.
When he was diagnosed in the spring of 2015, he fought with all his might. And he continued to work. Every day, overcoming pain, fear, uncertainty. Having barely finished the course of chemotherapy, he took the stage.
He didn't need comfort, but he needed a job. Each concert for him was a victory and summing up. He eagerly caught every moment of life and creativity. He sang when the pain made it impossible to breathe. And the halls applauded this great genius.
He gave his last concert in Krasnoyarsk, his hometown. This was important to him, so he arrived with a damaged shoulder. The audience gave him a standing ovation. And the audience did not hold back tears of shock.
On November 10, his new disc with the "Rigoletto" recording was released. This role was his dream, and this disc became his farewell to the audience, listeners, admirers of his talent.
He walked away victorious. But he will live as long as his voice lives. Bravo, Maestro!
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