If it’s the Friday after Thanksgiving, then regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know it’s the day when I kick off my annual Christmas Carol-A-Thon in which I review several versions of A Christmas Carol. I look at movies, television shows, radio shows and books which adapt the Dickens classic. Every year I present new reviews with a few old classics mixed in since newer readers will have missed them.
THE PASSION OF SCROOGE (2018) – This 62-minute offering which is out on video is one of the opera versions of A Christmas Carol, NOT the x-rated version which is titled The Passions of Carol. I want to avoid any confusion, right off the bat.
This Carol opera was written and composed by Jon Deak, who also stars in the production alongside William Sharp. H. Paul Moon directed. Unlike the opera versions that I’ve reviewed in the past, no one wears period costumes, just dark colored timeless garb.
The 21st Century Consort Orchestra provides the music and though the horseshoe layout for the orchestra and the conductor (Christopher Kendall) is business as usual the execution certainly is not. Continue reading
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