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...Dunster House Opera (DHO), founded twelve years ago, intended to provide a more accessible form of operatic entertainment as all its operas are sung in English, while the Lowell House Opera (LHO) has produced an opera annually since 1938. This season DHO is producing Mozart’s classic Cosi Fan Tutte which opens February 19, and the LHO is staging two works, Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les sortileges” and Stravinsky’s rarely staged chamber piece, “L’histoire du soldat” which...
While Peritz and two other DHO leads are thinking about pursuing a career in opera, many others are singing opera for the first time. DHO draws a diverse range of singers every year, including many from the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Indeed, love—along with mistaken identities, evil stepsisters, drunk courtiers and a fairy-tale wedding—is the crux of “La Cenerentola,” which the Dunster House Opera (DHO) society recently adapted for its engaging 2003 spring production. And the show does indeed take place in the Dunster House dining hall, half of which production designer John H. Herndon ’04 has transformed into a impressive stage...
Using an English version of the Italian original (adapted by Daniel Pippin), the DHO has managed to put on Gioachino Rossini’s famous 1817 opera with both aplomb and creativity. Pippin’s clever English rendition doubtlessly makes the opera much more accessible to those not already enamored with the art form...
...from a few more rehearsals, the strong collection of voices makes for an impressive show with a few twists on the familiar story. In this production of “La Cenerentola,” there are no pumpkin stagecoaches, no fairy godmothers and no omnipotent wands. But the DHO cast and crew work more than enough of their own magic to transmogrify the banal into the beautiful. Both Prince and Cinderella find love and beauty in the unlikeliest of places, and so do we. —Tiffany I. Hsieh