Russian Opera Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, A Siberian Baritone Dies At 55

One of the world's finest opera baritones, Dmitri Hvorostovsky has died at 55 of brain cancer on early Wednesday morning at a hospice near his home in London.

The Russian baritone was diagnosed with a brain tumor a few years back which he announced in mid-2015. His death was announced via a Facebook post on his official Facebook page.

Hvorostovsky, the charismatic silver-maned Siberian specialist in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi announced his retirement in December 2016, a year and a half after he announced his diagnosis of brain cancer.

Hvorostovsky surprised the audiences at the Metropolitan Opera's 50th-anniversary gala in New York in May where he performed Cortigiani! Vil Razza! from Verdi's Rigoletto. 

Hvorostovsky told he was born in a tough industrial city in Siberia in an interview in 2002. He also described that as a high school student, he was attracted to drinking, drugs, and fighting more than towards opera stage.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the opera legend died at 55 in London

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He came to the limelight when he beat Bryn Terfel winning Cardiff Singer of the World Title in 1989.

Hvorostovsky was survived by his wife, Florence Hvorostovsky, their children; Maxim and Nina, and his twin from a previous marriage, Alexandra, and Daniel.