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...GIOVANNI by Mozart and Da Ponte: Leverett Opera Society, conductor John Miner, director David Bartholomew, Loeb Mainstage May 7, 9, 11 8:00 PM $2.25 and May 6 1:30 FREE...
Playing the Festival theme of cooperation between the arts to the hilt. "Invalid" will share its set with another mainstage extravaganza, Mozart and DaPonte's "Don Giovanni," performed by the Leverett House Opera Society. Jon Miller designed the set that will be used for both shows. His main concept of the design is that "both works spring from the Renaissance, even though they date from a good deal later, and I wanted to give that feeling. The Moliere has to be something light, with lots of doors and tricks, 'Giovanni' should be something quite different...
...Mozart and DaPonte's masterpiece of theatre is considered to be, more than any opera, a fusing of the two forms of drama and opera. The story is based on the legend of Don Juan and the Stone Guest; the production itself, producer Howard Hawkins points out, is bursting with talent. Director David Bartholemew is chairman of the Opera-Theatre Department at the Boston Conservatory; musical director John Miner will be conducting fellow at Tanglewood this summer. To say nothing of the cast. "The production is the result of a strange situation in Boston," Hawkins muses. "There are no decent...
...high school gymnasium, Katims led a 16-member string ensemble before an enthusiastic crowd of adults and children that overflowed from bleachers and folding chairs onto the floor. There was an overflow of the overflow when a chorus of 94 children came out to join Katims in Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus...
...other living winners included: in biography (a category formerly combined with history), Joseph Lash's splendidly affectionate Eleanor and Franklin (Norton); in arts and letters, Pianist Charles Rosen's demanding study of The Classical Style in the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (Viking); in science, George L. Small's ecological lament for the disappearance of The Blue Whale (Columbia University); in philosophy and religion, Martin E. Marty's Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (Dial); and for translation, Austryn Wain-house's heroic failure to quite transform French Nobel Prizewinner Jacques Monod...