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Princesses become strip-teasing starlets, peasants turn into movie extras, and prostitutes are reincarnated as older, sexually active stars in the Dunster House Opera Society’s (DHO) take on Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Under the guidance of innovative first-time stage director Kate D. Greenhalgh ’06, the DHO version of Candide, which is based on Voltaire’s work by the same title, will transport the characters from their traditional setting in the medieval past to 1950s Hollywood...
Founded in 1992 by Dunster House residents, DHO is entirely student -run and -operated, and performs one opera each year. Although open to singers of all experiences, DHO attracts strong voices from the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Owing to its popularity as a fun and profitable show, Candide will take the stage again, after a five-year absence since its last on-campus performance...
...don’t mean to suggest that there are no resources to turn to: On the contrary, the Masters of Dunster, the Porters, are unbelievably supportive and we are fortunate to have received a grant from the Office of Fine Arts this year. But the inherent limitations [the DHO and Harvard artists face] in what we do aggravate me more and more...
Well, I’m not quite sure how it happened, but I really can’t live without opera. I drag a whole bunch of recordings with me to school every year and especially when things get crazy, listening to opera or concentrating on DHO has a calming effect – I’m sure most of us would say the same about our extracurriculars…Personally, I value the quality of the singing above all else, but perhaps it’s the many levels of any opera performance (orchestra, singing, acting, scenery, costumes...
Well, I think the story that takes the cake is the time last year for DHO when we rented a U-haul truck to transport a genie from Pfoho to Dunster. Yes, it was as painful as it might sound, despite the fact that eight people were trying to push the thing into the truck. Now, there just happened to be a massive snowstorm this day as well. Driving through Cambridge in a big U-haul that could barely accelerate and that could barely stay on the road definitely took years off my life...