The Medium

6/6/2025

I’d never heard of Marie Powers before watching this curious hybrid of a film, but she definitely earned her fee here as she offers a compelling operatic performance as the slightly crooked medium “Madame Flora” who has been fleecing the gullible quite successfully for quite a while before, well a bit like Noël Coward’s “Madame Arcati”, she happens on the real thing and it’s a malevolent and mischievous entity determined to cause it’s own brand of intense havoc and induce quite a degree of introspection and even guilt from our now slightly freaked out conduit to the spirit world. It’s that intensity that Gian Carlo Menotti has managed to capture impressively here coupled with a little comedy and some powerful arias from an entertaining, if a little contrived, libretto that I think would pr