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...looked like a goat, although his movements were not as successful as Moran's. Paul Magloff--the crafty, drooling "Renard"--used both his elastic body and plastic face to achieve the work's most impressive performance. The four solo vocalists sang expressivley and tunefully, though Thomas Weber and Gregory Sandow enunciated poorly...
John Harger Stewart, as Ferrando, has a fine bel canto tenor, which he uses to good effect. Greg Sandow, his wacky sidekicks Guglielmo, holds his own with the baritone part and caught the audience off guard with his frequent wry sallies. Thomas Weber, as Don Alfonso, was even better, in a difficult part which required him to sing while snickering at the plot all evening. Patricia Stedry, as Despina, a little out of her range perhaps, nevertheless made an excellent co-conspirator with Don Alfonso in their sotto voce duets...
...Greg Sandow, one of the opera's two suitors and one of the two undergraduate principals, came off the stage to explain why any Harvard show is hard to put on, why a House show is harder than a show at the Loeb, and why a grand opera is harder than anything else...
...Gregory Sandow had fine moments as an ominous Grand Inquisitor, a stony-faced lecher, and a jovial torturer. The rest of the gondoliers and contadine (gondoliers' playmates) danced and sang with polish unusual in a chorus...
What the opera does center on is the priest's personal dilemma, and much of the performance's success came from Gregory Sandow's imposing portrayal of this character. Yet because the issue which created this personal strife is so unimportant to the libretto, the priest cannot be a complete dramatic character. It is not the specific question of his allegiance which seems to oppress him--he is simply burdened by a gloom which envelopes all the characters. The tone of continual tension denies his greatest dramatic acts any major significance: his curse, for instance, simply cries...