Word: importance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE ago, opera in the U.S. was regarded by many as an outdated European cultural import that held little relevance for contemporary Americans. Beset by high production costs, disastrous deficits, a declining talent pool and a static, aging repertory, American opera companies seemed to be the dinosaurs of arts organizations. In the past few years, however, a string of important and popular new works by composers as disparate as John Corigliano, Philip Glass and William Bolcom has helped improve opera's artistic fortunes. At the same time, audacious native-born stage directors like Peter Sellars...
...issues that affect the University can vary from the matters of national fiscal policies to the minutiae of research policy or even import...
...professor needed to import his pianos, which was not a problem. But the ivory keys, banned according to import regulations, were a different story...
Enter Harvard's Washington based lobbyist Nan Nixon. She worked feverishly to find a way around the import rules. Ultimately, however, the professor's keys stayed behind in Germany...
Benjamin's performance as Marat alternates between indifference and vehemence without reason. He expels his lines with lethargic volume, but does not quite seem to understand the import of his words. The three singers, played by Finn Moore Gerety, Jonathan Weinberg and Rebecca Boggs, are effective and solid, propelling the play forward with energy and style. The patients of the asylum are remarkable in creating boisterous chaos together and for sustaining their small ticks and twitches throughout the two-hour show...