Aside from "Death Singing," powerfully sung in her dire, incantatory style, "Blue Poles" is the best song on the album.

But as the powerfully sung revival at the Connelly Theater makes clear, this whimsical chamber musical has always been more than a hoot.

A performance of that song, powerfully sung by the baritone Marcus DeLoach, appropriately concludes this ambitious production.

Isaacs' big number is No Hurry at All, "a bluesy solo powerfully sung and amusingly acted" said Bruce Weber in the New York Times.

But as the powerfully sung new revival from the Transport Group makes clear, this intricate, whimsical chamber musical has always been more than a hoot.

The movements normally sung by a contralto were offered here in the variant baritone version, sung powerfully and evocatively by Thomas Hampson.

Miss Jessel, the deceased schoolmistress and Quint's ghostly partner, was powerfully sung by Michaela Gurevich.

Amanda Forsythe's Angel was powerfully sung.

The piece had parts for two soloists - a brief soprano part, sung by Suzanne Kihlstedt, and a more extensive baritone setting towards the end, sung powerfully by Jan van der Schaaf.

The opera's highest moment is a splendid set piece by the despairing Genoveva powerfully sung by the young soprano Yiva Kihlberg.