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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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