The New York Times reported that a trilogy of Rachmaninoff's short operas has been presented in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov, an evening the paper's headline describes as rare. The article, written by Daniel Lewis, was published Nov. 3, 2026, and is available as the New York Times report on the Rachmaninoff trilogy.
According to The New York Times, the production turns the three works into "an unsparing portrait of unhinged delusion." The paper describes the staging as new and presents the evening as one built from the composer's short works.
The paper's headline places the words megalomania and madness alongside the evening, and its summary uses the word delusion to describe the same theme. The New York Times presents these terms as its own characterization of the performance.
The New York Times summary of its report refers to the works only as the composer's short works and does not name them. It also does not give the number of performances, the dates or venue of the staging, the names of the performers, or any response from audiences or other critics. This story does not add those details.
Because the account rests on a single report, the description of the production is The New York Times's own characterization and has not been confirmed by another source. Daniel Lewis is identified in the report as its author, and the paper's summary gives no further information about his reporting.
According to The New York Times, apart from Rachmaninoff, whose name appears in the report's headline, the summary names only Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose new staging the report covers.
Sources: The New York Times: In a Rare Evening of Rachmaninoff Operas, Megalomania and Madness.