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...decided to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's birth by staging four of his best-known works, including The Magic Flute, and a company was born. Fifty years later, they have repatriated one of their finest exports, director David Freeman, to launch a new version combining vocal firepower (Amelia Ferrugia, Jaewoo Kim, Emma Matthews) with the aerial acrobatics of Legs on the Wall. Did someone mention crossover appeal? "You can't stay 19th century," says the production's designer, Dan Potra, who shares with his director the belief that opera will "die a slow, agonizing death" unless new elements...
...form from within. As founder of the Opera Factory, first in Sydney and later in London as part of the English National Opera, he earned his stripes as an avant-gardist, famous for stripping his singers - literally, as in his 1988 Cos? Fan Tutte set on a beach. (Amelia, Jaewoo and Emma, fear not.) But when The Magic Flute opens in Sydney this week, their talents will be similarly exposed. "I wanted to make the magic of the piece human and physical," Freeman says, "rather than just stage effects...
...Amelia Ferrugia ascends on her mechanical moon at a recent rehearsal, Freeman encourages his Queen to command the stage with her gestures ("but not Shirley Bassey ones"). Caught in the folds of her drapery below, Jaewoo Kim is coaxed to treat her presence like perfume. "Can that be more intense?" Freeman later asks. Every now and then, the director drops back to view the scene through the frame of his hands. Such details will make all the difference when his vision is unveiled, and Freeman hopes it will share with Shakespeare the quality of being "both spontaneous and inevitable...
...Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, * Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors) CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Paul A. Witteman (Deputy), Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Richard Hornik, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, Margaret...
...really grappled with the texts, and we never contextualized them.” Such a superficial, textbook-based narrative is not representative of the offerings of the History Department, which focus on much more restricted periods and areas, but above all offer deep, engaging arguments. Former History 10a student Amelia E. Atlas ’06 said that “with a coursepack full of five-page excerpts, it’s impossible to glean any in-depth meaning from a curriculum already spread too thin...