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Anthony Dean Griffey has carved out a singular career playing opera's outsiders.
This summer, he brings one of them -- Lennie in Of Mice and Men -- to the Bregenz Festival
I first heard Anthony Dean Griffey sing in a chamber version of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, alongside Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, in 1998 at Alice Tully Hall. What immediately struck me upon seeing him there, waiting patiently onstage for his part to begin, was the thick aura of sadness that seemed to envelop him. His expression was anguished. He appeared to be on the verge of tears. His pain was painful to observe. Was he sick? I wondered. Or just dreadfully nervous? It was an ...