What Difference Does Opera Make?

 A report on the effect of playing Schubert's B-flat Sonata as opera rather than sonata:

• Virtuoso passages are transformed into bursts of fury; the temptation to exhibit mastery becomes the challenge to let emotion rule.
• Seemingly trivial figures flitting around following such passages become flickering flames released by the eruption.
• Unease drives.
• Tenderness is reflective, longed for, deeply simple.
• Ordinary triads become singular events.