Opera singers often hail from unlikely places. Leontyne Price emerged from tiny Laurel, Mississippi; tenor Jon Vickers from Prince Albert on the plains of Saskatchewan. But it is hard to recall a leading man or lady from a place more remote and exotic than central Siberia. And yet the singer who seems destined to be the next big star of the lyric stage is the pride of Krasnoyarsk: a strapping, darkly handsome baritone named Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
The opera world has been buzzing about Hvorostovsky (give the H a slight rasp and add vor-stov-ski) ever since his triumph at the 1989 BBC...
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