BJU produced
two operas a year. The faculty would play the lead parts during rehearsals
but about three days before actual performance, BJU always flew in singers
from the New York Met to perform the leads, in this case Morley Meredith,
Theodore Lambrinos, and Phyllis Curtin. I was a member of the chorus.
I remember we were all ecstatic because we got to move and sway around
the May Pole, in the scene where Faust meets Marguerite. BJU frowned
on dancing and this was as close to dancing as we could get. I also
remember we sang the entire Opera in 200-year-old French. I didn't have
any idea what we were singing, but I sure had fun doing it.
