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Some French commentators, including the best-selling author Nicolas Baverez, view the outflow of talent as the latest manifestation of French decline. Others are more upbeat - the french conquest of the world blazed the headline of one article on the issue in the right-wing daily Le Figaro - and the official government line is that this exodus is a welcome sign that young French people are keen to broaden their horizons. At the same time, the government has been putting in place several programs designed to encourage émigrés to return, including offering cash incentives to talented scientists...
...after a little amusement,” Figaro sings in the opening act of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” “I’ll play the tune.” True to his words, John D. Kapusta ’09 (Figaro) and the rest of the Dunster House Opera (DHO) cast play the part of lying, cheating, and mischievous lovers well, amusing the audience consistently throughout the comedic opera, and for the most part delivering on their promise to make the opera “accessible...
Caitlin C. Vincent ’07, a History and Literature concentrator, is the stage director of the Dunster House Opera (DHO) production of “The Marriage of Figaro.” Trained in classical voice, Vincent jumped into the campus opera scene from the start of her time at Harvard...
...Audiences should see Marriage of Figaro for the singers. This production has some of the best opera singers on campus, and they are all surprisingly good actors and comedians as well. It’s really a chance to see a dozen fantastic singers (most of whom don’t get the exposure they deserve) performing in one of the best operas ever...
Aware that fencing such glittering, easily identifiable ice would be difficult, the insurance company that had covered the jewels offered a $300,000 no-questions-asked reward for their return. For eight months nobody responded to the notices in Le Figaro. Then French police were told that an intermediary was trying to make contact with the insurance firm...