Word: libretto
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...traced to The Dark Side of the Moon and even past that, to the band's early days on the psychedelic front lines. To fans, this continuity must be just as reassuring as the trendiness [Roger] Waters has grafted onto his lyrics, which are a kind of libretto for Me-decade narcissism. Says Tom Morrera, disc jockey at New York City's pacesetting WNEW-FM: 'The Floyd are not as spacy as they used to be. They're doing art for art's sake, and you don't have to be high to get it. They'll take...
...Generally, big opera houses and festivals tend to sterilize this opera, focusing on the jagged modernity of the score and the formality and inevitability of death in the libretto, while ignoring the tremendously subtle emotions that can be powerful, sad and even funny. Thankfully, DHO treats the audience to as much passion and humanity as Poulenc certainly intended...
...orchestra, working on the technical crew, or acting. Most are veterans of other stages around campus, ranging from participating in the Dunster House Opera to the recent production of “Slavs!” at the Loeb Theater.Simply performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s libretto was not enough for the HRG&S Players—they also aim at spicing up the production with a generous dash of their own Harvardian creativity.“We can’t do things[in] the way that was originally how the playwrights intended them—they?...
...middle-of-the-road approach: “Rent”’s schizophrenic shifts between dramatic scenes and musical set pieces are better suited to Bollywood than Hollywood.Steven Chbosky’s screenplay also disappoints. He does little more than transcribe the musical’s libretto: almost all of the film’s dialogue—even that which is not sung—rhymes. This gives the movie an unfortunate Seussian feel, and drains the tension from the film’s darker scenes.Stephen Goldblatt’s murky and colorless photography won?...
...Carson is to read by intuition. Acquaintance with her collage of sources is not a prerequisite for appreciating her poetry, although familiarity with literary form enriches the experience. “Decreation,” her first book in the last five years, is a hybrid of poetry, essay, libretto, screenplay, oratorio, and illustration...