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“To this end he introduced a narrator, evocatively played by Jarrod Lee, in the persona of a poet delivering appropriate Rumi excerpts and helping the audience through the intricacies of the literally and figuratively baroque plot.……..Another nice touch was having Lee suddenly become part of the action, breaking into song in the role of the romantic go-between (a servant in Handel’s original version), opening a whole new door on a character that through entering the opera was at once diminished and humanized.” – Anne Midgette / Washington Post