![]() ![]() ![]() Lovett by understudy Molly Jane Hill, a member of the Festival’s fine Young Artists Program. She stepped in for Luretta Bybee, who had sung Mrs. What might have otherwise soared, thanks to the vocal caliber of the cast, the delightful unamplified singing, and the luxury of a 41-piece orchestra in the pit, was slow to achieve liftoff. I heard the second of two performances on July 30, which included a promising debut in the role of Mrs. 26, undermines the work’s dramatic power. Unfortunately, the incoherent production by Christopher Alden, which continues at the Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater through Aug. Lovett (Molly Jane Hill) and Sweeney (Greer Grimsley) hatch business plan. Sweeney Todd, the benighted, blood-soaked masterpiece by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, is a riveting spoof of Victorian melodrama that, when done well, manages to be horrifying, hysterically funny, and deeply moving. ‘Sweeney Todd.’ (Production photos by Karli Cadel / The Glimmerglass Festival) By Barbara JepsonĬOOPERSTOWN, N.Y. Tobias Ragg (Nicholas Nestorak) welcomes diners to a trendy new restaurant on Fleet Street, in Stephen Sondheim’s
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