Delos’ international A&R director, globetrotting conductor Constantine Orbelian, recently returned to his San Francisco home base from an extended stay in Armenia and was pleasantly surprised to find multiple letters of congratulation from California political figures for his 2019 GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Opera Recording. Orbelian and audio engineer Vilius Keras were honored for their…
Gramophone Magazine’s March 2019 issue is out and includes a great review of Stephen Costello’s new A Te, O Cara recording: “the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra under Constantine Orbelian suitably frame the emotional directness of the performances. Costello’s … colouristic range is apparent in every selection, allowing recitatives to speak with … light and shade.…
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator has a new interview with Constantine Orbelian in light of his third GRAMMY® nomination, “Best Opera Performance”, for Verdi’s Rigoletto. See his reason for wanting to do a recording of the work, and then read the full interview on mirrorspectator.com: First of all, I love opera and love Verdi. What appealed to…
It’s hardly surprising that orchestras and opera houses everywhere are still mounting memorial concerts and other events honoring the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky (known to us at Delos as “Dima”): perhaps the greatest Verdi baritone of our times. The latest celebration of his matchless art is today’s special concert in Kaunas, Lithuania, where Delos’s two…
Stephen Costello is currently performing the role of Don José with The Dallas Opera, and North Texas arts outlet TheaterJones has a new review for his Delos debut recording, A Te, O Cara. “[Stephen Costello] has the ability to take the familiar and put his stamp on it. For example, at the album’s center is the…
June 6th is composer Aram Khachaturian’s birthday celebration, so we’re taking the opportunity to celebrate the composer and his music with an all-new Spotify Playlist! Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was born in Tiflis, Imperial Russia (now Tbilisi, Georgia) to a poor Armenian family. In 1921, after Armenia became a part of the Soviet republic, Khachaturian left…
Aravot‘s Sona Hamalian caught up with Constantine Orbelian in Malta while he was the Chairman of the 2018 Malta International Piano Competition: Maestro Constantine Orbelian is a man with a mission. Never one to be interested in incremental improvements or stop-gap measures, he has been on a passionate, exhilarating quest to turn the beloved institution…
Delos’ Constantine Orbelian and the Yerevan Opera House have won the Armenian Ministry of Culture’s Tsitsernak National Music Award! The award was in the Best Musical Presentation category for their Armenian premiere of “The Last Judgment”. The show featured a performance of Verdi’s Requiem set to the visual accompaniment of 3D animations of Michelangelo’s Sistine…
Maestro Constantine Orbelian on winning Classical Album of the Year and his years of collaboration with Dmitri Hvorostovsky Interview by Sona Hamalian On March 11, Russia’s BraVo International Professional Music Awards announced the DELOS label’s recording of Verdi: Rigoletto as the 2018 Classical Album of the Year. The BraVo Awards are regarded as Russia’s Grammys.…
MusicWeb International‘s Michael Cookson reviews Verdi: Rigoletto featuring Dmitri Hvorostovsky: “It is hard to ignore the impressive performance of tenor Francesco Demuro, seductive as the lecherous and duplicitous Duke. His bright voice is splendidly in tune conveying that special Italianate sound together with the ability to reveal a tear in the voice. … American soprano…
Soprano Nadine Sierra, who performs the role of Gilda in our new Verdi: Rigoletto recording, will be performing a recital in Dallas, TX on January 28, 2018 in a series presented by The Dallas Opera. In anticipation of her performance, North Texas-based TheaterJones has a new Rigoletto review in their “Auxiliary Input” column: “If Hvorostovsky…
John Osborn’s A Tribute to Gilbert Duprez has been named a MusicWeb International Recording of the Year! “This quite outstanding new Delos recording sets the pulse racing and should win French Grand Opera and tenor John Osborn many new admirers. Renowned Parisian tenor Gilbert-Louis Duprez (1806-1896) had ‘pop star’ status in his day and is…
OperaNews names Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s Verdi: Rigoletto a Critic’s Choice! “ When Rigoletto makes his entrance jeering at Count Ceprano, Hvorostovsky’s sound is shockingly guttural, with flecks of grit I wouldn’t have imagined as part of his arsenal: he had come a long way from the liquid lyricism of his Prince Yeletsky or Don Giovanni. In…
The 60th GRAMMY Awards were announced this morning, and we are excited to share that TWO Delos albums have received nominations! Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift featuring Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Constantine Orbelian has been nominated for the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album and Mademoiselle: Première Audience – Unknown Music Of Nadia Boulanger has been nominated for…
“In April of 2015…I had the good fortune to have my attention directed to a Delos recording of what, at the time, I declared to be the “most fascinating opera” that Giuseppe Verdi ever wrote. … Both of these ensembles, as well as their director, were unknown to me when I started listening to the…
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