Concerts of operatic highlights given by star performers are regularly a ­ragbag, but more planning than usual had gone into this gala ­featuring ­Russian stars Anna Netrebko and Dmitri ­Hvorostovsky, ...

This was a highly enjoyable evening featuring two of the most glamorous stars of opera today (and don’t they know it!!) The repertoire was varied if not hugely adventurous and the singers were ...

Appearing for the first time together on Red Square, two of the biggest names in opera today, Anna Netrebko (Soprano) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone), will perform for one night only in front of ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It has been a very odd winter for celebrity concerts in London. There was Cecilia Bartoli flouncing around in velvet ...

At times this meeting of the two Russian operatic superstars threatened to become one of those ghastly over-priced, over-hyped celebrity jamborees at which the audience spends more time applauding ...

Netrebko at the Met (with Martineau). Anna Netrebko in Recital/Photo by Marty Sohl, courtesy The Metropolitan Opera. You know the old saying “Second verse, same as the first”? A couple of weeks ago, I ...

Classical music has lost one of its most magisterial voices and commanding personas. Russian baritone Dimitri Hvorostovsky died at the age of 55 last week after a hard-fought battle with brain cancer.

But, although the recital occasionally felt as if it might exceed itself, it ultimately lived up to the standard that one should rightly expect from such figures as star baritone, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, ...