Review By Beth Dwoskin – June 24, 2024

That Voice recounts a Jew­ish baby boomer’s youth­ful attempt to define her­self as a musi­cian. The youngest child of a music-lov­ing fam­i­ly, Mar­cia Menter describes the life-chang­ing moment her father gave her a record­ing of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mika­do. She was enthralled by the voice of Ann Drum­mond-Grant, a major star of the D’Oyly Carte Com­pa­ny, the offi­cial opera com­pa­ny of Gilbert and Sullivan’s works. Menter resolved to become a singer of light opera like her idol — but, far more than most young singers, she real­ly need­ed the metic­u­lous train­ing that’s required to pre­pare the voice for opera. And despite a suc­ces­sion of teach­ers, she nev­er found it.