Thursday’s performance featured soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Rod Gilfry, for whom the work was originally crafted. Both singers are well established, and the night’s rendition didn’t contain ...
To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19 th-century composers captured the essence of that sentiment more memorably than Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Yet the Russian master was much more ...