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...also a genuinely comic opera by Britten, one of the 20th century’s greatest composers who is best known for his expansive and probing works. Librettist Eric Cozier’s English-language text is “highly conversational” and “very funny,” Kramer adds...
...fair, many of the plot problems are no fault of librettist and lyricist Randy Weiner ’87-’88. Shakespeare’s play is inherently flawed, from its undeserved redemption of Leontes (here, Ezekiel) to the dull romance between Perdita and Florizel (now Rain and Tariq). However, in his adaptation, Weiner makes no attempt to remedy any of the source story’s faults. Instead, he offers pat lines that tackily acknowledge the tale’s weaknesses. While these little fixes are cloyingly cute, they hardly improve upon the story; in fact, they...
...Rosenkavalier,” the brainchild of Straus’ second collaboration with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Straus’ most popular opera, is rarely performed due to its demanding size and musical difficulty. Drawing upon over 150 performers frolkm across the Boston area as well as Harvard students to form a rotating cast whose members often alternate performance dates, “Der Rosenkavalier” has been an ambitious endeavor from the start...
...served as the group’s president, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, who played in its orchestra.MAKING WAVESThe centerpiece of the 50th anniversary events is HRG&SP’s production of “H.M.S. Pinafore.” The fourth collaboration between librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, “H.M.S. Pinafore,” which opened on May 25, 1878, was their first runaway success and remains one of the most popular of their comic operas to this day. HRG&SP Treasurer Charlie I. Miller...
...have. I can walk. I see things I don't want to take for granted ever again. I try to do more in life." Saving Fish is one result of Tan's new energy, and the next is an opera based on The Bonesetter's Daughter. Her collaborators are librettist Michael Korie and composer Stuart Wallace, whose 1995 opera Harvey Milk, about the assassination of San Francisco's first gay city supervisor, won wide acclaim. They are aiming for a 2008 debut in the U.S. or China. Meanwhile, Tan is starting to think about her next novel...