Hvorostovsky - Prince Igor

Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Igor's aria Ни сна, ни отдыха измученной душе (No sleep, no rest for my tormented soul) from Князь Игорь (Prince Igor) by Alexander Borodin, at a concert with Renée Fleming, Moscow, 2006

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• Dmitri
• Hvorostovsky
• Borodin
• Prince
• Igor
• Князь
• Игорь

[Yitzhakhazak]

I´ve heard this aria sung by a high bass, a bass-baritone and a baritone. Although the tessitura is quite high it requires a darker "timbre" than what this excellent singer has got. Singing Verdi´s "Il balen" and this piece require two different voices. A baritone has to choose and so does a basso or a tenor ..told me Prof. Werba! Sometimes more than any other voice!

[frufruJ]

Sure, but concert is something different than an opera. This aria is very popular in Russia, and he's never going to sing it on stage.

Your Professor is right, but then we wouldn't have a rendition of this wonderful piece by this wonderful baritone, no matter if it's a tad bit unorthodox.

[sasha42196]

Russian operas are not well known or often performed in the west. Other than Onegin and Queen of Spades, and even those are an event when they are performed. It's always the same stuff - Puccini, Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Carmen, Faust... Wozzeck is staged more often than Igor. I think the music community is missing out not knowing Borodin, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky. Not to mention operas by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, etc. I wonder why...

[genpet2]

Слова вечно путает. "Все прошлое я вновь переживаю"(!)

[tolyaik]

Отличное исполнение!!!)))))))))

[kuzmicz07]

такое возможно только в России.В любой другой стране Европы хор бы ни в коем случае не согласился стоять целый концерт....

[gnostie]

George London is better, with his voice naturally darker to reflect Igor's dark thoughts.

[Domigp09]

My favorite aria of all times.....

[pianistvokalist]

Хорошое исполнение. Сочувчтвую хору, столько стоят.

[Agorante]

@Saiaton The Polovtsein Dances were not incorporated into 'South Pacific'. I think you are thinking of 'Kismet'.

[raigekimaru]

@sasha42196

seriously, and we don't even have the right voices around for Puccini, Verdi and Wagner right now, with the exception of Dolora Zajick and Ewa Podles (whom apparently the Met doesn't want to hire)

[Domigp09]

Love it:)

[oncelostmain]

@monpitt500 it mast be dark- such text

[vivegedda]

Evviva Georges London!!!!!