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...early age, Scofield led an intensely private life offstage but onstage captivated audiences with his precision and fervor. A master of Shakespearean roles, he played everyone from Henry VIII to Hamlet, also delivering memorable performances in parts ranging from Don Quixote to Salieri in a 1979 production of Amadeus...
English scientist Michael Faraday and German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may seem to be unlikely bedfellows, but their legacies have been combined to surprising effect. A series of concerts by the Fromm Players at Harvard last weekend celebrating “60 Years of Electronic Music” demonstrated how classical music has absorbed technological advancements and how this influential fusion has opened up new possibilities for artistic creation...
...more relaxed interpretation of these operatic traditions, Saturday’s opening night performance was entertaining and carefully composed, successfully bringing the high art of opera to the Dunster dining hall.For its 15th anniversary, the DHO returned to “Così fan Tutte,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s and Lorenzo da Ponte’s 1790 tale of female infidelity and mistaken identity. While the opening Friday evening performance was cancelled at the last minute, leaving me with visions of directorial anguish, half-assembled sets, and missed cues, my fears were misplaced. Producers Lucy...
...more relaxed interpretation of these operatic traditions, Saturday’s opening night performance was entertaining and carefully composed, successfully bringing the high art of opera to the Dunster dining hall.For its 15th anniversary, the DHO returned to “Così fan Tutte,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s and Lorenzo da Ponte’s 1790 tale of female infidelity and mistaken identity. While the opening Friday evening performance was cancelled at the last minute, leaving me with visions of directorial anguish, half-assembled sets, and missed cues, my fears were misplaced. Producers Lucy...
...Shaffer was a kindred spirit to Mankiewicz: a cunning wordsmith with a playwright brother; his identical twin, Peter, wrote Equus and Amadeus. Like Mankiewicz (and Pinter, for that matter), Shaffer was fascinated by the ability of language to reveal, conceal and distort the workings of a person's mind and desires. In Sleuth he created a Chinese-box plot that on the surface was a very theatrical mystery, but at heart was a parable of sexual envy and English class hatred. Again, right up Pinter's dark alley...