Director Margy Kinmonth filmed him singing Tchaikovsky’s “To Forget So Soon” in Foxtrot’s film celebrating the anniversary of the Mariinsky Theatre, alongside artistic director Valery Gergiev, and The South Bank Show’s Melvyn Bragg. There’s a great behind the scenes moment at the Mariinsky as he rushes back between the applause to look for water.
Hear Dimitri Hvorostovsky sing here on the DVD: MARIINSKY THEATRE 1783 – 2008
100th anniversary of Russian Revolution was marked by Workers Revolutionary Party Rally in London, inviting director Margy Kinmonth to speak about the role the artists played in Russian Revolution. Followed by screening of Revolution – New Art for a New World.
Available here on DVD with unseen extras, including the strange story of “The Curse of Stalin’s Wreath”
Margy Kinmonth’s Revolution – New Art For A New World will be screened at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, in a unique and historic cinematic double bill with Hermitage Revealed on 17 November 2017. Formerly the Winter Palace of the Tsars, where the Revolutionaries took ultimate control a hundred years ago, the State Hermitage Museum today boasts one of largest collections in the world.
