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Hvorostovsky & Radvanovsky: International Superstars in an Italian Opera Spectacular
A Show One Presentation -- Saturday, March 20 at Roy Thomson Hall
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He has been called "the supreme singing actor" "with a virtuoso
display of smoky tone and sensual, forthright phrasing." With her
"*rich, tremulous soprano voice and affecting intensity,"* she is
hailed as the top Verdi soprano of our age.
*Show One Productions presents the first joint North American concert
by two of the world's operatic superstars, baritone DMITRI
HVOROSTOVSKY and soprano SONDRA RADVANOVSKY, Saturday, March 20, 2010,
8 p.m. at Roy Thomson Hall. *
*An Italian Opera Spectacular** features an evening of passionate
arias and duets from Un Ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), Simon Boccanegra, and other great stage works by Verdi, along with such
favorites as the Song to the Moon from Dvorak's Rusalka, and the final scene from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
*Hvorostovsky and Radvanovsky will perform with the Orchestre de la
Francophonie, under the baton of Constantine Orbelian. Jean-Philippe
Tremblay, the orchestra's music director, will conduct some of the
finest orchestral selections from opera, by Verdi, Puccini and Mascagni.
*Tickets, $65-148.75, are available via ***www.RoyThomson.com*
<http://www.RoyThomson.com> or by calling **416-872-4255.*
*Information is also available at www.ShowOneProductions.ca
"This concert is certain to be a highlight of 2010," promises Svetlana
Dvoretskaia of Show One Productions. "When you get two talents of this
magnitude in the finest operatic music ever written, it is both a rare
and unforgettable experience!"
Hvorostovsky and Radvanovsky first performed together in Russia in
2009. The Toronto concert marks the start of a North American tour
that takes the artists to Montreal's Place des Arts March 26 (also
presented by Show One Productions), Washington's Kennedy Center March
29, and New York's Carnegie Hall April 1.
*BOTH STARS FEATURED IN NEW VERDI RECORDINGS: **In addition to regular
performances at the Metropolitan Opera, both Hvorostovsky and
Radvanovsky have toured widely. Their recent joint concerts of Verdi
scenes and duets in Russia were recorded and will be released shortly
on Delos. As well, Radvanovsky's Moscow performances led to her first
solo recording of Verdi arias, also on Delos and scheduled for release
in April.*
*HVORSTOVSKY'S SIMON BOCCANEGRA: ** While the versatile Russian
baritone is a great interpreter of Russian opera and music of his
homeland, he is in demand worldwide as a recitalist and for his Verdi
roles. When he first performed the title role in /Simon Boccanegra /in
2006 with the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Chronicle praised his
"magnetic" stage presence and "lustrous" sound, marveling at "his
ability to convey the emotional point of words." When he reprised the
role for the San Francisco Opera in September 2008, the *San Francisco
Chronicle raved, "His vocal production was superb, a virtuoso display
of smoky tone and sensual, forthright phrasing." The Bay Area Reporter
summed him up at the "supreme singing actor." This year (2010) sees
Hvorostovsky again at the Met, as well as the Covent Garden and Vienna
opera houses, and touring extensively in Russia, North America and
Canada. www.hvorostovsky.com
Vanity Fair wrote that Hvorostovsky "is sending aficionados the world
over into a collective swoon, inviting an adulation that recalls the
advent of Baryshnikov in the dance world of the seventies." And he was
a rare classical musician to be named one of People Magazine's 50 most
beautiful people.
*RADVANOVSKY'S FIRST TOSCA & AIDA:* One month after her Toronto
performance, Sondra Radvanovsky will sing her first Tosca in the Opera
Colorado production of the Puccini melodrama
www.operacolorado.org/operas/tosca-artists. In October 2010,
she will make both her Canadian Opera Company and role debuts in the
title role of Verdi's Aida. On March 20, audiences will enjoy a
foretaste when she includes Aida's aria O Patria Mia in the program.
*The New York Times has praised her "rich, tremulous soprano voice and
affecting intensity," while The Times (UK) hailed her as "a true
Verdian, with a big, juicy, vibrato-rich sound." San Francisco's
Chronicle summed up her September 2009 performance in /Il Trovatore:
"Even if nothing else happens during the rest of the San Francisco
Opera's 2009 fall season, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky has already
provided us with at least one extraordinary and indelible musical
memory." (Hvorostovsky alternated as Count di Luna in that production.)
*This January has seen her as Lina in the Metropolitan Opera's remount
of Verdi's/ Stiffelio,/ with Plácido Domingo conducting -- in what the
New York Times described as "a richly expressive performance as Lina,
Stiffelio's guilt-stricken wife... She sang with utter *integrity,
supple phrasing, nuanced colorings and aching vulnerability. Her
bright, strong voice filled Verdi's lines and penetrated the orchestra
without forcing... She won me over, and the cheering audience, with her
impassioned performance."
*Radvanovsky is also appearing this season as Elisabetta in Don
Carlo at the Paris Opera; and in the Verdi Requiem with the Vienna
Symphony Orchestra. www.imgartists.com/sondraradvanovsky
