Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky: A Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg

Released: September, 2001

Studio: Decca

Composers: Nicolai Medtner, Sergei Rachmaninov, Peter Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi

Soloist: Olga Kern, piano
Conductor: Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra: State Hermitage

Program:

Reneé Fleming and one of her favorite singing partners, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, explore the origins of 19th-century European opera performance in the courtly theatres of St. Petersburg, presenting a three-part program of Verdi duets, songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Medtner, and Tchaikovsky opera, performed, by special permission, in the opulent theatres of the legendary Winter Palace, the Palace of the Yusopov family and the magnificent Peterhof.

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