Khodorkovsky singer biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Its dramatic baritone is drunk and fascinating, the intonations of his vocal parties are wandering to trembling. The singer’s track record includes a huge number of awards and titles: the People's Artist of the Russian Federation, the laureate of the Glinka Prize named after Glinka, the holder of the Opera News Award, the International Prize presented for contribution to opera art.

Dmitry Hvorostovsky - the Golden Baritone of Russia was called the “cultural envoy of Russia” - for many Western listeners it was the Voorovsky’s voice that was associated with modern Russian culture. In the last years of his life, Dmitry fought with brain cancer. In November, he left this world, but his art will continue to live in our hearts. Childhood and family, the first music lessons, was born in an intelligent family from Krasnoyarsk Dmitry Hvorostovsky received in early childhood.

His father, a chemist engineer Alexander Stepanovich Hvorostovsky, always cherished the love of singing in his soul. As Dmitry himself recalled, Hvorostovsky Sr. had a beautiful deep baritone. Dmitry Hvorostovsky in childhood besides, the boy’s father knew how to play the piano perfectly. In the year, he, a 7-year-old boy, raving about music, asked his parents to change the government bonds that were then given part of the salaries to the piano.

So in their family a “trophy” German instrument of the beginning of the 20th century appeared, which is still standing in the Hvorostovsky apartment. It is not surprising that in the house of the Hvorostovsky family-Alexander and his wife Lyudmila Petrovna, a gynecologist-music has always sounded. In the personal collection of Alexander Stepanovich there were many rare records.

It is not surprising that Dmitry fell in love with the classics already at a young age. The parents of Dmitry Hvorostovsky in his youth, as his relatives of Hvorostovsky noted, he decided to sing for the first time at four years old. Soon, Little Dima, along with his father, began to master the piano and without problems entered a music school. It is very noteworthy that the first teachers saw in the boy the future great pianist, and not at all an opera singer.

Dmitry himself, by the way, did not dream of a stage in childhood. He wanted to follow in the footsteps of his mother and become a doctor. And at some point it turned out that my father went to work in another city, and my mother could not control the son, since she spent days in the hospital. The transitional age made itself felt - the summer Dima began to skip classes. Once Lyudmila flared up: "Either you return to music, or leave home and do not return." The young man left, slamming the door, and truly Siberian frosts stood on the street, and besides, a snowstorm began.

Lyudmila was already growing up for careless words, but Dima returned with repentance: "Mom, I understood everything, I will never abandon music." As for the comprehensive school, everything was not so rosy. In the graduation class, Dmitry wrote such a crushing characteristic that he chose to forget the school years as a nightmare. Dmitry and his parents, many advised him to enter the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts, where they are engaged in cutting musical talents from the beginning of the 20th century.

However, unexpectedly for everyone, Dmitry chose the local pedagogical school. Gorky, which was considered less prestigious, and was much further from his house. Here, the future singer received the specialty of a music teacher. At the same time, he began to get carried away with new-fangled musical directions, among which was hard rock. For some time, Dmitry Hvorostovsky spoke along with the semi -amateur music group, and then, in the year, he decided to submit documents to the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts, which at that time acquired the status of the institute and became called the Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Arts.

Dmitry, with his teacher Ekaterina Iofel, the young man sought to get into the class of Ekaterina Jofel, a world -famous teacher, who has grown more than one future genius of opera singing. Under the start of this sensitive woman, Dmitry studied the features of opera vocals for several years. As the musician himself admitted, he carried the advice and instructions of the institute teacher through his whole life.

The career of the opera singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky began his professional career on the stage of his native Krasnoyarsk, at the local Opera and Ballet Theater, where he performed with the beginning of the third year of the institute for a year. Soon, he became a recognized star of the Krasnoyarsk scene and appeared in almost all the major productions of the State Opera and Ballet Theater: “Peak Lady”, “Iolanta”, “Travisat” by Giuseppe Verdi, “Eugene Onegin”, “Faust”, “Piasya”.

Young Dmitry Hvorostovsky soon the talent of Hvorostovsky was noted outside his native Krasnoyarsk. In the year, he became the winner of the All -Russian contest of vocalists, and a few months later - already the All -Union contest of vocalists. Glinka, who took place in Baku. The career of Hvorostovsky began with the Krasnoyarsk Opera Theater in the near future Hvorostovsky began to tour a lot in Russia and other republics of the Soviet Union.In the year, the young singer’s debut took place on the European stage - Dmitry Hvorostovsky performed the Party of Yeletsky from the staging lady on the stage of the Nice Opera Theater.

In the same year, the jury of the international competition in Toulouse gave the Russian performer the main prize. Dmitry Hvorostovsky - Il Guerriero Buono But that was only the beginning. In the year, Dmitry Hvorostovsky received the Grand Prix of the Cardiff Voices International Competition. From that moment on, the whole of Europe spoke about the young opera singer.

Hvorostovsky destroyed the stereotypes about how the opera singer should look: the athletic body in neat tuxedo and the ashen mane of hair even brought him a place in the ranking of the most beautiful people in the world according to PEOPLE. By the way, Dmitry’s hair turned gray very early - so the genes “fell out”. Subsequently, the Russian performer received engagements in opera theaters with world famous.

His voice sounded from the scene of the Berlin and Bavarian state opera, the London Royal Theater of Kovent-Garden, the Milan Opera of La-Skal, the New York Metro-Opera. In his homeland, the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater, the Moscow Theater "New Opera" and the State Kremlin Palace, were the site for concerts of the performer. Dmitry Hvorostovsky: Songs of the war years Dmitry Hvorostovsky became the first opera singer to give a solo concert on Red Square.

This speech, which laid the foundation for a large touring tour in the cities of Russia, was broadcast on the air of the world of the world. Dmitry accompanied the State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia under the conduct of Konstantin Orbelan. The personal life of Dmitry Hvorostovsky in the life of the famous opera artist was two main women. The first wife of Dmitry - Svetlana Ivanova - was the ballerina of the Krasnoyarsk Theater.

Their acquaintance occurred in the year, and three years later a couple legitimized their relationship, although the teacher of Hvorostovsky convinced him not to do this. The singer even adopted the child Svetlana from his first marriage. And in the year, the couple became parents twice - the “royal couple”, the twins of Alexander and Danil were born. The first wife of the singer, the former ballerina Svetlana Ivanova, outwardly, the marriage seemed calm, but in the year, after 15 years of marriage, he broke up due to treason.

According to some sources, Hvorostovsky almost fell under trial because of a fight with the lover of the first wife. For divorce business conditions, the woman was due to annual payments in the amount of thousands of dollars, as well as a luxurious house in London. The singer’s ex-wife filed a lawsuit in order to increase the amount of alimony and won the case-from now on Dmitry had to pay the ex-spray of thousands of pounds a year.

The second wife of Dmitry Hvorostovsky was the singer Florence Illy now Hvorostovskaya, half Italian, half a Frenchwoman. The second wife of Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Florence Illy, she brought new colors to Dmitry, pulling him out of the hopeless abyss of sadness after a break with Svetlana. For the sake of her lover, the girl learned the Russian language.

The singer's family accepted her as a native. In the year, their common son Maxim was born, and four years later, a daughter appeared in lovers who received the name Nina. Dmitry Hvorostovsky with his wife and children from a second marriage death, terrible news overtook Dmitry Hvorostovsky in the spring of the year. Even the most loyal fans did not notice changes in the singer’s voice and appearance, but Dmitry understood that something was happening to him: sudden attacks of dizziness, problems with coordination, hearing and vision-everything was signaling a terrible ailment.

Doctors confirmed fears by diagnosing a hypothalamus tumor. In the year, he spoke at the New Wave festival with Anna Netrebko, Lara Fabian and other stars of the world stage. Fans and colleagues supported Dmitry with warm words in October, he went on a large tour of Germany with a repertoire from the works of Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Verdi, but he refused the main role in the opera of Simon Bokkanigra due to the next course of chemistry.

Dmitry Hvorostovsky and his family in October, media reported about the death of Hvorostovsky, but the information turned out to be a duck. After publishing a note in Komsomolskaya Pravda, a message about the death of the singer crawled over social networks, and the saddened fans have already begun to bring their condolences when the angry wife Dmitry wrote in her blog: “My husband is alive and now sleeping next to me!

The newspaper, which launched a misinformation, promised to bring to the Hvorostovsky apology. Therefore, when a month later, the news was again cramped with reports of Dmitry’s death, people did not believe, until the last hoping that this was another newspaper duck of unscrupulous journalists specifying on the feelings of fans. Alas, the information was confirmed by the relatives of the artist, Joseph Kobzon and Dmitry Malikov.

Dmitry Hvorostovsky passed away on November 22. He was 55 years old. In the will, Dmitry asked him to cremate, and to bury the ashes in two cities important in his biography: Moscow and Krasnoyarsk.Lilia Vinogradova, close to the Hvorostovsky, said that farewell to the Golden Bariton will be held in Moscow, despite the fact that the last years of his life, Hvorostovsky lived in London.

In the year, the memory of Dmitry's mother began work on a book, in which she decided to tell the amazing story of their family. And after the death of Hvorostovsky, she published a documentary romance, which is called “The History of the Family”. The Hvorostovsky sold an apartment in Moscow, which Dmitry gave them shortly before his death. Initially, they wanted to spend money on the treatment of their son, but did not have time.

Therefore, they ordered a monument - the bronze figure of Dmitry Hvorostovsky in full growth - which cost several million. The monument stands in the Novodevichy cemetery, where part of the ashes of Dmitry is buried. The grave of Dmitry Hvorostovsky in September in the year in the small homeland of the singer installed a memorial. This is a figure similar to the one that was installed in Moscow, and the same sculptor, Vladimir Usov, made it the same.

The monument was proposed to be erected on the main square of the city, but the Hvorostovsky refused, and now it decorates the square at the entrance to the Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Arts.

Perhaps this event will become a good annual tradition. The widow of Dmitry admits that every day he yearns for his lover. In her personal blog, only photos with children and videos from the performances of the deceased husband appear. Sports and walks with dogs and, of course, children help to distract from sad thoughts. It does not exclude that in the future it can write a book about Dmitry and take part in creating a film about it.

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