“A live performance is another leap of faith, because it's live performance. It's not manipulated. You cannot go back. So it's a wonderful adventure,” Pretty Yende tells me. We’re backstage at the ...

Any tenor singing Tonio, the hero of Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment,” has to knock off a string of nine high C’s in the joyous aria “Ah! mes amis.” Review: A Tenor Reaches 18 High C's at the ...