BBC Music Magazine‘s Michael Tanner offers a four-star (for both performance and recording) review for Verdi: Rigoletto starring Dmitri Hvorostovsky:
“It is impossible to review this set without acute feelings of regret at the early death of Dmitri Hvorostovsky…This recording, made in July 2016, shows him at the height of his powers in the title role, revealing the full range of Rigoletto’s qualities – contempt and malice for the courtiers, tender but oppressive concern for his daughter, final rage and humiliation – with all the intensity Verdi required. … There will no doubt be more tributes to Hvorostovsky’s star qualities, but they are unlikely to surpass this one.”
