Word: hellmold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amidst the lingering aroma of a lasagna dinner, the penetrating voice of Margery A. Hellmold '83 echoes through the Lowell House dining hall. Lowell's High Table platform, ordinarily a place reserved for lunchtime banter and dinner study groups, has been cleared of its mundance furniture and transformed into a stage. Here, the cast for the 43rd production of the Lowell House Opera rehearses for its opening tonight...
Only three of the actors in the opera are Harvard undergraduates. "Harvard is not a conservatory, so it does not attract many people who are vocally controlled enough to participate in opera," says Hellmold, who plays the governess. "So, it's necessary to audition 'outsiders...
Moreax as Prince Hilarion sings well, and hams up his lines, but suffers by comparison to both Meridith and his Princess. Margery Hellmold, in the title role, possesses the stage from the moment of her entrance--but overplays her lament after her women have betrayed her, suggesting some sort of pseudo. Wagnerian melodrama. Douglas Freeman, as Hilarion's father, and Melody Scheiner, as Ida's lieutenant, both display the necessary gravity and force of will. Lisa Zeidenberg and Debra Staniunas, in the parts of female undergraduates, add a charming note of whimsy to their surrender to the unfair...
...cast--they must portray both lofty historical figures and loonies at the same time. The actors attack this problem with great skill, capturing the madness and hysteria of France's Reign of Terror as well as of the grimmer episodes of the 20th century. Directed by Maja Hellmold, this Marat/Sade suceeds in drawing us into an asylum that is a microcosm of our own crazy world...
...other female singers give superb performances. As Donna Elvira--one of Giovanni's past conquests--Margery Hellmold '83 captures woman's confused love-hate feelings toward Giovanni with her emotional outbursts through her buoyant arias and desperate recitative interplay with the seducer himself. Junior Jeanine Bowman's Zerlina complements the other two women with her performance as an innocent country maiden, who almost falls into Giovanni's web Less emotional and more straightforward than Anna or Elvira. bowman's Zerlina is delightful with her quieter yet charming voice that reveals her character's naivete and dedication to her country bumpkin...