OLGA & DMITRI: ARIAS & DUETS

GAETANO DONIZETTI
- La favorita (excerpts)

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
- The Tsar's Bride (excerpts)

GIOACHINO ROSSINI
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (excerpts)

CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
- Samson et Dalila (excerpts)

OLGA BORODINA, mezzo-soprano
DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY, baritone
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
conducted by PATRICK SUMMERS

CD 454 439-2 DDD
PHILIPS

- The selection of arias and duets on this CD is an eloquent testimony to the range of Olga Borodina and Dmitri Hvorostovsky's roles. The singers have performed together in several operas on Philips including Don Carlos, Eugene Onegin, La Traviata and their next will be The Tsar's Bride and Boris Godounov.

- "Their voices match well - Borodina's rich of timbre, Hvorostovsky's velvety... Their rapport was evinced in the valedictory love duet for Lyubasha and Gryaznoy from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride...this affecting music, sung poignantly."
(The Telegraph, London)