Saturday Night Music

Dmitri  Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

On Sunday, May 7, Dmitri Hvorostovsky who after being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2015 had had a hiatus, performed “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata” from Verdi’s Rigoletto before an adoring crowd, in Metropolitan Opera, New York.
It's so sad seeing him so weak. But his voice!

Video credit: Metropolitan Opera

And here the "same", performed but four years earlier, on 19 August 2013

Saturday Night Music

Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe
Libretto/Text Author: Piave, Francesco Maria
Libretto Source: Hugo, Victor
Conductor: Chailly, Riccardo
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra Chorus: Vienna State Opera Chorus
Chorus Master: Balatsch, Norbert
Borsa: Corazza, Remi
Ceprano: Bracht, Roland
Countess Ceprano: Kuhlmann, Kathleen
Duke of Mantua: Pavarotti, Luciano
Gilda: Gruberova, Edita
Giovanna: Barbieri, Fedora
Maddalena: Vergara, Victoria
Marullo: Otey, Louis
Marullo: Weikl, Bernd
Monterone: Wixell,Ingvar
Rigoletto: Wixell,Ingvar
Sparafucile: Furlanetto, Ferruccio