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...brainchild of Straus’ second collaboration with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Straus’ most popular opera, is rarely performed due to its demanding size and musical difficulty. Drawing upon over 150 performers frolkm across the Boston area as well as Harvard students to form a rotating cast whose members often alternate performance dates, “Der Rosenkavalier” has been an ambitious endeavor from the start...
...each phrase with purpose and ease, catering to the simplicity in Sophie’s character for which the score calls. Her vocal quality becomes increasingly stunning as she climbs the octaves. Woolf’s acting is also impressive, particularly in her interactions with the rest of the cast...
...organizers. The award’s international focus stemmed from lessons learned in the American government award program, said Jayne M. Iafrate, communications manager for the Ash Institute. “Innovations are happening at all levels of government and we want to make sure that we cast the net as widely as possible,” Iafrate said...
...could resemble the U.S. strategy in El Salvador in the 1980s, when U.S. troops were dispatched to that Central American nation to train its fighting forces but didn't get involved in the conflict themselves. Whatever policy the U.S. eventually endorses, Gates - unlike Rumsfeld - won't have to cast a nervous eye into his own rearview mirror and wonder about how Congress and the press might react to such a change in strategy. "Gates is in great shape," Korb says, "because he wasn't here when these decisions were made...
...Each member of the cast is given standout moments, sometimes literally as the action freezes to let characters, most notably Emma and Todd, step forward and soliloquize. As Todd, Wolfe is the rational (although not always the moral) center of the play, beginning the performance with an introductory discussion of world history to the present and taking an emotionally detached view of proceedings throughout the play. Wolfe makes an excellent ironic observer, smirking his way through the events of “Pterodactyls” and deftly registering both disgust and pity on his face...