Word: ethane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Free, the dancers fell into the period piece perfectly and the scenery and sets were stunning. The backdrop of never-ending buildings in dark purples and blues and the bright colors of the diner were the perfect setting for the ballet. The three sailors, performed by Joaquin de Luz, Ethan Steifel and John Selya, and the three women, performed by Christine Dunham, Amanda McKerrow and Jennifer Alexander, acted the piece as if they had fallen through time to the 1940s. Their acting was witty, and funny and their dancing was lively, stylistic and included bouncy jumps, the rhumba...
According to John Allanbrook, "Edith Wharton communicated verbally that the story might have been better without flashbacks" so there is "a precedent to tell the story in a different way." "People are turned off by Ethan Frome simply by the way it's narrated. Wharton had the story down, then mechanically applied this 19th century device which distances the reader from the characters...
Reducing the prevelance of the flashbacks, the opera tells the story sequentially, with an ending climax where Ethan and Mattie have an aria "reminiscent of Macbeth--a crossing of the paths" which makes use of the Neapolitan scale that followed Allanbrook Sr. home from the Santo Carlo Operas. Egan, who spent the summer working at the Santa Fe Opera with Jonathan Miller, will be stage directing the preformance, and his hand-picked cast promises a great show...
...Hailing from Greenlawn, N.Y., his last two performances were American operas preformed in New York City Opera Companies. In a review his most recent performance, the November Opera News claimed that "ticketholders got a peek at a prospective star of tomorrow," who will grace the stage on Friday as Ethan...
...uniqueness of the sound, and the connections it makes will allow it to be the "moderately preformed opera in the American circuit" that Allanbrook Jr. hopes for. It would seem a mistake to miss the world premeire, but if all goes as planned, you'll be able to catch Ethan again at a later date...