Word: opera
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Edith Wharton's well known novella, Ethan Frome--a tale of love, forbidden passion and its tragic consequences--lends itself particularly well to a genre whose main intention is to represent and express human feelings on a grander scale. And that genre is none other than opera. Opera vows to unite music and poetry so as to engage the audience in feeling as much empathy, compassion and even terror as possible...
When your acting debut involves playing a deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard in the first-ever rock opera, what do you do for an encore? If you're ROGER DALTREY, lead singer of The Who, you sign up to play that lovable old misanthrope Scrooge in the community-theater stalwart A Christmas Carol. When he takes the stage at Madison Square Garden later this month, Daltrey, 54, will perform not with his longtime bandmates but with the quaintly impoverished Cratchit family. Why would a rock star who once typified disaffected youth take on such a role? "It interested...
...only Harvard performer is first-year Poulis, who turned down one of the eight prestigious vocal spots at Julliard in favor of a liberal arts education supplemented by lessons from Edward Zambara. Hailing from Greenlawn, N.Y., his last two performances were American operas preformed in New York City Opera Companies. In a review his most recent performance, the November Opera News claimed that "ticketholders got a peek at a prospective star of tomorrow," who will grace the stage on Friday as Ethan...
From this world-premiere, Allanbrook Jr. plans to continue his work with the opera by recording it in January with Mapleshade Records, and possibly by staging repeat performances during the summer festival season. Talking about the work, John Allanbrook said he doesn't "think anyone else writes like that; you might compare it to Hindemith because it has a lot of counterpoint, but it has a much sweeter tonality--all these things interlocking." Perhaps the uniqueness of the sound, and the connections it makes will allow it to be the "moderately preformed opera in the American circuit" that Allanbrook...
...obscure piece that opened last Friday's concert was all those things. The all-Mendelssohn performance began with the overture to a comic opera, The Uncle From Boston. The overture is rarely heard, and this performance marked its Boston debut. The libretto of The Uncle From Boston has been lost, but it is always refreshing to discover and hear a composer's lesser known works, much like finding more sonnets by Shakespeare or short stories by Hemingway. The beginning of the Capriccio Brillant, Op. 22, was more lovely than brilliant. Short and sweet, it was one of Mendelssohn's three...