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![]() ![]() The opera also creates a twofold female character, Destiny and Loneliness, to embody qualities that haunt Charles. During long stretches of Act I, Charles hovers around Char’es-Baby, issuing warnings the boy can’t hear, and they sometimes sing in duo, with winding lyrical lines over mellow harmonies. The device of having a character be portrayed by two singers at different stages of life goes back a long way in opera, and works powerfully here. In the next scene, his 7-year-old self, Char’es-Baby, is played by Walter Russell III, an endearingly gangly and sweet-toned boy soprano. When the opera opens, we see Charles (the muscular-voiced baritone Will Liverman, in a breakthrough performance) as a college student, speeding home, pistol in hand, bent on revenge for having been molested as a boy by his older cousin. ![]()
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