Encore excellence
Dear Editors,
I wish to extend my most superlative thanks and praise to the Queen’s School of Music Opera Company for their fantastic production of Hansel and Gretel which I had the privilege to attend on Friday evening, Jan. 15.
At the end of the second act, just prior to the intermission, was the scene where Hansel and Gretel lay down on the forest floor to sleep, scared, alone, hungry, in the middle of the deep dark forest.
Fourteen angels came out, two by two, and danced a circle of protection about them, as a golden light grew stronger, and as their voices melded with the woodwinds to create a piece of heaven right here on earth into which an entire audience was transported bodily and spiritually. The last two angels were there to “guide them to heaven.” I believed that night that angels danced and flitted among us right here on earth, and it was affirmed for me that in fact a Heaven awaited us beyond this pale shadow of what is deemed “real,” that we call life, that has become an economic cage for the benefit of the few, and which isn’t that far from the servitude of old.
If there were a way that I could trade my MBA for a degree in Music from the Queen’s School of Music, I would do so in a (one sixty-fourth) heartbeat, molto allegrissimo.
Best wishes for continued excellence in this season and in the future, and many thanks again for showing a light on the path to truth.
Domenic P. Amatucci, MBA ’93
Kingston
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