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...this adaptation of the opera, Meyers, Salzmann and Schuler have emphasized the story’s universality in an attempt to involve the audience more fully in the characters??€™ plights. Understanding the content of the libretto, including the banter between characters, also adds to the music an emotional component that may not be possible when the opera isn’t in English...

Author: By Michelle Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Delicious Treat in Dining Hall | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...intertwined are the characters??€™ views of opera and existence that an irate Mendy at one point yells, “I’m not surprised you don’t like opera, people like you don’t like life...

Author: By Sara K. Zelle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Opera Met Reality: Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

Ford cites two typical reasons for his characters??€™ infidelity. The first is the impossibility of finding a spouse who one can ever truly know and unfailingly understand. He believes that all mates are largely compromises, and, since partners are never completely satisfied with one another, they cheat. This belief reflects Ford’s his strong opinion that humans are inherently alone in the world and in their thoughts and that marriage is a futile attempt at looking through another’s eyes. His second-favored cause of infidelity is simply boredom with the normal American middle...

Author: By Ian P. Campbell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ford: Everybody's Doing It | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

Within his stories, Keret lavishes affection on his characters as if they were newborn children. “I really love my characters??€”all my characters??€”and it’s difficult for me when people say, ‘I really like the story about this asshole,’ and they think that I think he’s an asshole, too. But I don’t, I really like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel’s Hippest Voice Speaks Out | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

Within his stories, Keret lavishes affection on his characters as if they were newborn children. “I really love my characters??€”all my characters??€”and it’s difficult for me when people say, ‘I really like the story about this asshole,’ and they think that I think he’s an asshole, too. But I don’t, I really like...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Israel's Hippest Voice Speaks Out | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

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