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Paul McCartney Sends Special Message to Cincinnati at Debut of ‘Liverpool Oratorio’ Opera: ‘I Love That You’re Doing It There’
Paul McCartney sent a message to his fans in Cincinnati on Thursday (July 18) at the debut of the Cincinnati Opera take on his 'Liverpool Oratorio'.'
At the outset, the sets designed by Leslie Travers and stage director Caroline Clegg brought home the horrors of war as characters in period dress streamed in through the aisles to take their place in a bomb shelter bisected on the floor by the map of the River Mersey. Shuttling the corrugated metal walls to the side, the cast doubled as crew, setting up classroom desks and chairs as the wistful, melancholy score gave way to an amusing, kicky Spanish-language song from teacher Miss Inkley (Kayleigh Decker) about three rabbits in a tree. The mood quickly lightened, though, when the cast rolled out a miniature house on wheels covered with more maps of Liverpool for the wedding of Shanty and fiancée Mary Dee (Jacqueline Echols McCarley), as the elegant soprano was serenaded by an angelic children’s choir during the pair’s nuptials.
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