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Opera News celebrates Jesse Blumberg as Njegus in BLO's "The Merry Widow"
- Ana De Archuleta
- Jul 14, 2016
- 1 min read
"Of note in the comprimario roles was Jesse Blumberg as Njegus, the Pontevedran charge d’affairs (more or less Baron Zeta’s butler). As World War I approached in the Boston Lyric’s apocalyptic vision, Blumberg’s Njegus came to embody Europe’s willful ignorance, waltzing and singing in the empty dining room while gunshots rang offstage." -Opera News