Dmitri Hvorostovsky and I are not exactly close… I once encountered the Russian operatic baritone 25 years ago, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, when he was an unknown young singer traveling with Irina Arkhipova. Arkhipova, the legendary Russian Mezzo soprano, had seldom appeared in the US, yet she had become a favorite singer [...]
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:12PM on May 27, 2014