Immediately following his upcoming run as the title character in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at the MET, Dmitri kicks off a five city recital tour of the United States on February 10, making stops at Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (February 10), San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall (February 13), Chicago' Symphony Hall (February 16), New York's Carnegie Hall (February 21), and Boston's Symphony Hall (February 27) . The programs for these five dates will feature works by Fauré,
Taneyev, Liszt and Tchaikovsky. For these performances, Dmitri will be joined by the pianist Ivari Ilja, with whom he has performed many recitals and made several recordings, including his two most recent ones on Delos, Pushkin Romances and Tchaikovsky Romances. [Source]