Classical music review

The only information readily available on the latest MET Live in HD presentation was that Renée Fleming was the star and her aria, ‘The Song to the Moon,’ was the only worthwhile music in the opera.

How wrong the advance publicity was, and how prejudiced and self-important were the New York critics.! Fleming’s famous aria is, indeed, the best-known piece in Rusalka, but it is just one of an absolute torrent of melodies in the opera.