Word: leveretts
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Author Norman Mailer and violinist James Oliver Buswell IV '69, will be the guests of the Tenth Annual Leverett House Festival of the Arts this week...
...Leverett House doubled its budget to $2000 this year in honor of the festival's tenth anniversary. The additional money allowed the House to expand its art and photography competitions to include for the first time non-Harvard Boston area students...
...festival will also feature the Leverett House Opera Society's production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with a performance by Master Richard T. Gill...
Producing a major Mozart opera is at the very least a grandiose gesture. The production at Leverett House is more: it is lively, intelligent, and remarkably polished...
...translation used for the Leverett production contains many brilliant strokes and the usual quota of ridiculous lines. The singers took great pains to make the words clear, but many were inevitably lost in the ferocious pace. Given their care, it was worthwhile to do the opera in English; many as of the scenes, and above all the finale of the fourth act, were excruciatingly funny. Dramatically as well as musically, this is a memorable Marriage of Figaro...