"Mese Mariano" resembles Puccini's "Suor Angelica" (which had its premiere eight years later), though with a softer edge, and without a visible villain.
WSJ: Ghost Stories Sung | Spoleto Festival USA | By Heidi Waleson
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The rest of the opera is scene-setting a children's chorus to greet a patroness of the orphanage and some light banter among the nuns, who included the opulent-voiced mezzo Ann McMahon Quintero as Suor Pazienza.
WSJ: Ghost Stories Sung | Spoleto Festival USA | By Heidi Waleson