Word: opera
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Elkies' and Dauber's opera Yussele Solevey, an adaptation of a book by the same name by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, is the first original opera performed by the Lowell House opera...
...This is definitely our first premier," said the show's producer Heidi K. Kim '01. "Lowell hasn't always done stock opera per se--we've done strange things in the past--but this...
Just one day after the world premiere of their English opera in the Lowell House dining hall, composer and Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies '86 and librettist Jeremy Dauber '95 spoke about their opus at a forum at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...idea for the opera came several years ago, according to Elkies, when former Master of Lowell House William H. Bossert '59, suggested that he write an original opera for the House, which has been putting on an annual opera since the 1930s...
...kept scrapbooks of their social lives during the turn of the century--records of parties and club dinners and inordinate activities. They saved: scrolled Hasty Pudding invitations, silk-tasseled dance cards for exclusive parties, gold engraved menus for Porcellian dinners boasting aged port as an aperitif, festooned playbills, thick opera programs and multitudinous cotillion invitations with summons to some of the most prestigious and exclusive clubs and hotels in Boston. William Gibbons Morse, Class...