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Benjamin Britten’s 1947 comic opera “Albert Herring?? revels in the notion of being bad on purpose. The Dunster House Opera’s current production, which runs through Feb. 13, uses its formidable discipline to create a tight, wry vision of Britten’s fable of mischief...
Britten’s astringent score calls for an equally dry wit, and Dunster House Opera’s laconic production of “Herring?? appropriately aims more for poised subtlety than madcap laughter. Concise acting makes the plot clear at all times, even when the clarity comes at the expense of a joke (though there are plenty). Humor emerges from the libretto rather than being scaffolded upon...
Stage director Stewart N. Kramer ’12 hopes “Albert Herring?? will resonate with audiences at Harvard. “It’s an opera that is very much about young people, about the experience of being young. Even though most of the characters are older, the entire crisis is about youth and lost youth,” Kramer says...
First, I disagree with Herring??s depiction as “unprecedented.” In fact, there is notable precedent for clarifying exceptions to the exclusionary eule. Both U.S. v. Leon (1984) and Arizona v. Evans (1995) dealt with exceptions to the exclusionary rule, and in both cases, the holding allowed for these exceptions if law enforcement showed that the mistakes were made in good faith...
...that black ink might be a red herring??the surplus appears to stem from stalled initiatives rather than the Faculty’s fiscal fortunes. "[S]everal major projects were delayed or deferred and a number of new faculty recruitments were not completed," Knowles wrote...