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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...
Many non-Harvard affiliates who have performed in the past with Lowell House have come from the New England Conservatory. Hellmold, for example, is a New England Conservatory student who also performed in the Lowell House opera as a Harvard undergraduate. "It's good for the undergraduate amateurs to work with preprofessionals from the Conservatory," says Crowley...
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...