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The Strangest of Angels
Film (Trailer) – 2023
Will she remember anything after this? Was she even mad at all?– Nurse Baillie (Anna Leese)
The Strangest of Angels is the nurse’s story, performed admirably by soprano Anna Leese. Her charge, Janet Frame, has become a side story, the vehicle through which we watch Nurse Baillie unwind. And unwind she does in spectacularly realistic manner as her own sadness is revealed . . . Baillie weaves quixotically between carer and torturer, patient and nurse. Leese’s voice is exceptionally strong, showing great ease with the multiple switches between sung and voiced lines.– Otago Daily Times reviewer Marian Poole in a review of the original opera, 13 October 2022
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