The Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky — one of the most widely respected singers in the opera world today — died Wednesday morning in London of complications from brain cancer. He was 55 years old.

Lyric Opera used to present vocal recitals by some of its leading artists on a fairly regular basis, but those concerts have long since slowed to a trickle amid an increasingly commercialized ...

WASHINGTON — Dmitri Hvorostovsky, a Russian baritone who was one of the most celebrated opera singers of the modern era, dazzling audiences with a voice that was by turns brooding and delicate, died ...