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Some fine thespians and a refreshingly superb orchestra, coupled with the often ribald and vaudvillean tone of Jacques Offenbach's opera, provided a high caliber and rollicking fun performance. Music Director Brent Ranalli and Stage Director Adriana Abdenur, are to be commended for a first-rate production, which would make past Dunster Opera legends, such as Jefferson Packer, Brian Saccente, and Kate DeLima oh-so-proud...
...both wide and deep, moving with ease between the limpid grace of the classical period and the densest, most fearsome modern scores. His six-year tenure in Lyons has been marked both by important premieres (Debussy's unfinished Rodrigue et Chimene) and by alternative versions of such staples as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann; in Manchester he champions a group of young, modernist British composers. "I guess I take an awful lot of risks," says Nagano. "But what I'm trying to do is make music an active, living art form that people today can relate...
Since 1938, Lowell has brought to Harvard audiences baroque chamber opera one year, atonal and little-known modern works the next; effervescent Offenbach operetta is found alongside heavy Strauss works...
...Hill's Phantom of the Opera. First produced in England in 1976, this comic melodrama had a book by Hill and a score by Ian Armit. In 1984 Hill dropped the original music and wrote new lyrics to arias by Gounod, Offenbach, Verdi, Mozart and Donizetti. Lloyd Webber considered producing an embellished version of it, then decided to do his own. Thank heavens. Hill's backstage farce is a kind of Noises Off without the wit, and the cast plays it as hammy gaslight farce -- a penny dreadful that at today's prices plays like a $32.50 dreadful. It alights...
After receiving her degree from Radcliffe in 1955, Albright travelled to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, for the 1956 Olympics. Skating to a Jacques Offenbach medley on February 2, 1956, Albright received from the judges eight 5.8s, two 5.7s, and one 5.6, out of possible score...