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Assistant to the Masters and Director Susan Livingston, and Musical Director Jefferson Packer wisely choose to cut several of the extra song verses, helping the pacing of the show immeasurably...
musical direction by Jefferson Packer...
...opera's greatest musical surprise is thepiano accompaniment. While Musical DirectorJefferson Packer acquits himself admirably with adifficult transcription of Puccini's notoriouslytreacherous score, there are some serious losses,Important effects are lost, like the chirpywoodwind passage when Gianni dispatches Laurettato go feed the birds, or the pealing of the tocsinthat sends the Donati into a frenzy (the latter isespecially confusing since the characters refer toa bell while the audience only hear a note in thepiano's bass register...
...decision to performs both operas in Englishis commendable, and the translated texts are clearand effective. Jefferson Packer's lively renderingof La Rondine--done, presumably, for thisperformance--is a bit prosaic at times, perhaps inan attempt to temper the sentimental excess of theoriginal...
...board also found Harrop's entire testimonyto be false. "Dr. Harrop brazenly, blatantly,repeatedly and consistently committed perjuryduring this hearing," Packer wrote. "Virtually hisentire testimony was perjurous...