Director of the Wiener Staatsballett, Manuel Legris, has choreographed a new version that draws on the rich performance traditions of Russia and France, and carefully combines action, music, choreography, scenery and costumes into an elegant and impressive production.
Mr. Byrne, turning in the richest dramatic performance of the season, gives "A Moon for the Misbegotten" back to James Tyrone, and there is no understating the significance of that accomplishment.
And with Nathan Lane giving one of his richest performances ever, Mizlansky emerges as a vital addition to the theater's gallery of monsters to remember.
Gil Shaham opened the Tuesday concert with an emotionally tense, rich-toned performance of the Schuman concerto.
But the disc's most compelling work is its finale, a rich, haunting performance of "The Night Gatherers," a dark-hued work for viola and string quartet by Mr. Greenstein.
The excellent violinist, Courtney Orlando, gave an intense and rich-toned performance of a short, searching solo work, "Secret Psalm," written in 1990 as a memorial piece for Michael Vyner, who was the artistic director of the London Sinfonietta.
Of her work in "Cabaret," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that, in her "beautifully simple, direct and rich performance" she discovered "shades of feeling that are entirely new to this production".
They are a young, dimly macho drug addict named Bob (played by Matt Dillon in one of the richest, funniest performances of the year), his addicted wife, Diane, his best friend, Rick, and Rick's teenage girlfriend, Nadine, who longs to be an addict but hasn't quite achieved her goal yet.
