Portland Opera, 2022
Then there’s the Donald Trump character. “Let’s nail these thugs!” sings much-thinner-than-Trump tenor Christian Sanders, who masterfully caricatures the blowhard real estate mogul with his spookily unstoppable hand gestures, his saunter and slump, his jutting chin, and Queens twang.
Trump never took back his words in real life. As a character–more a caricature—he provided comic relief, and the piece thankfully did not spin around him. Still, it was thrilling to boo him, which the ecstatic audience did with pleasure at curtain call.
-Angela Allen, Oregon ArtsWatch