Hints and tips:
...Kristen McNally and the consistently impressive Marcelino Sambé allow us to focus on the plight of a single couple among the faceless throng....
...Rory Kinnear is quite wasted as Panin, a dull adviser allied with Catherine’s sidelined son Paul (Joseph Quinn), forever sulking under a preposterous wig....
...His writing is nourished by Levi’s score but it also feeds off the idiosyncrasies of dancers like Joseph Sissens, who switches registers at will in his slip-sliding solo....
...Sister Helen Prejean, on whose 1993 memoir the opera is based, eventually persuades Joseph De Rocher to admit his guilt and seek forgiveness....
...Andrew McNally Cobham, Surrey, UK...
...As at the opera’s unveiling, the audience succumbed to Heggie’s neo-romantic score and Terrence McNally’s flinty libretto....
...● Amy McNally, who used to be at Barclays Wealth, has joined HSBC Alternative Investments as global marketing manager....
...Joseph McNally, former trustee, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Robert Newell, director-general, the Royal Overseas League. Helen Page, lady in waiting to the Duchess of Gloucester....
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