Na vozdushnom okeane

Dmitri Hvorostovsky performs ’Na vozdushnom okeane from Rubinstein’s The Demon with Phoenix Opera Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of Maestro John Massaro, during Hvorostovsky’s Gala concert at Phoenix’s Orpheum Theatre Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Anton Rubinstein is remembered today for his piano piece known as ’Melody in F’, but he was also a sensational pianist and prodigious opera composer. The Demon, the best known of his nearly twenty (20) operas, is about a fallen angel, a Byronic figure who a