The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera - The New York Times
Charles McGrath
At the end of the opera, to music so full of feeling Strauss wanted it played at his own funeral, she accepts the inevitable and graciously surrenders her lover to a younger woman.
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