Word: pelagia
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...month ago I attacked the student opera The Cursed Dauncers for its facile use of medieval setting. The Conversion of Saint Pelagia, the Harlot, by undergraduates David Cole and Ronald Perera deserves to be attacked on the same grounds, but much more harshly. If the first opera had a plot with only half a dramatic issue, this one side-steps cheaply a powerful moral question. If the Daunsers exerted a shallow dramatic impact, this opera is simply not a drama, and its production made it all the more a sham...
...traditional ethics. Christianity has taken a dramatic position on this issue, giving no quarter to sins brought on by the harlot, yet offering her soul communal redemption. But in by-passing the powerful intellectual and emotional conflicts posed by the Church's stand, Cole and Perera give Saint Pelagia its sorry artistic impotence...
...telephone number of the box office for "The Conversion of St. Pelagia...
...review of "The Conversion of St. Pelagia," which opened last night in Agassiz, will appear on Monday...
...Lowell House Musical Society has announced that its annual spring operatic production this year will be a departure from precedent: an original opera written especially for the Society by undergraduates. Called The Conversion of Saint Pelagia, the Harlot, the opera was composed by Roland C. Perera '63 with a libretto by David S. Cole '63. It will be performed in Agassiz...