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Several feet in front of the actors, director Jennifer Griesbach, periodically interrupts the scene rehearsal to encourage even more exadgerrated gestures from her cast...
...Square hips; your body should communicate queenly charms,” Griesbach urges...
...actor to provoke a response from the spectator. Gestures of address and decrees of love or war are expressed in a highly stylized way. “It’s difficult to teach baroque gesture acting in [the three weeks we rehearsed together],” says Griesbach, a professional opera director and co-founder of a Baroque opera company. “Therefore, what I’ve tried to do with the choreography is to use elements of Baroque opera to give people an idea of the genre...
...opera, probably first performed for Queen Anne’s birthday, made its London debut in 1706. The plot concerns Camilla, the rightful queen of the Volscians, and is a sexy tale of usurpation, mistaken identities, love, war and imprisonment. Sung in English and replete with what Griesbach deems “conspicuous melodies,” Camilla became the second most popular opera in eighteenth-century England, trailing only the Beggar’s Opera. Neil F. Davidson ’03, president of the Early Music Society and producer of Camilla, maintains that the opera?...
...theory was based not so much on conclusive proof from the Gospel texts as on a desire for a neat, scientific solution to satisfy a scholarly predilection for evolution: the more primitive Mark evolving into the smoother, more elaborated Matthew and Luke. Farmer returns to a sequence proposed by Griesbach: Matthew, then Luke, then Mark. Farmer's critics ask why Mark would have omitted so much of importance, such as the Sermon on the Mount and so many of the parables. Defenders reply that Mark's could have been simply a special-purpose Gospel for a particular community...