Parterre Box
Even when [Quinn Kelsey’s] typically warm, round timber shone through, the orchestra—situated behind him that evening for the concert version, which should have helped—swallowed him completely, an effect made more striking whenever Christian Pursell, playing Monterone, and Peixin Chen, playing Sparafucile, opened their mouths. It was as if, through Pursell’s huge, commanding voice, someone had finally turned the knob to a higher volume.
BRENDAN LATIMER