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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Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Constantine Orbelian performing Verdi’s “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata” from Rigoletto: Explore Verdi: Rigoletto Featuring Dmitri Hvorostovsky Pre-Order Pre-Order Pre-Order Giuseppe Verdi may have written his most glamorous and heroic roles for tenors, but he often assigned his more psychologically complex and conflicted character portrayals to baritones—and Rigoletto is just such a role:…
Armenian news outlet, Asbarez, interviews Delos artist Constantine Orbelian about his position as General and Artistic Director of the Yerevan Opera House! “Orbelian is seeking to carry out a top-to-bottom renovation and modernization of the Yerevan Opera House. Two other, and parallel, initiatives he is pursing are a library and a museum that will be…
Order Now The Epoch Times reviews the new John Osborn recording, A Tribute to Gilbert Duprez: “Delos has just released the debut solo recording of American bel canto tenor John Osborn. Listening to this spectacular recital makes one wonder why it took so long. … Osborn’s singing throughout is exemplary, showing a mastery of 19th…
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Order Now BBC Music Magazine gives Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s new Russia Cast Adrift recording a four-star review: “The title sounds political, but the songs are far more personal — the anguish of a young man at odds with the revolutionary-era world, and finding expression in nature. Yesenin’s deceptively plain language and imagery are sensitively echoed in…
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