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...vaudevillian lingerie and spontaneous beard-growth. The little-known Cerveris—most recognizable as The Observer on Fox’s popular drama, “Fringe”—delivers an equally captivating performance as the grosteque, blubbery villain Mr. Tiny. Donning refined opera binoculars and an affected air, Mr. Tiny refuses to engage in the ongoing war around him but makes his allegiances clear with his ominous mumblings (“One does dream of the cataclysm”). Cerveris succeeds at establishing both a comedic and disturbing presence: though his absurd size and mannerisms...
Based on an ancient Greek myth, John Eccles’ early 18th century opera “Semele” is undergoing an update for its latest incarnation in the New College Theatre, albeit one that still keeps it vintage. Director Victoria J. Crutchfield ’10 has transplanted the rarely-performed English opera, which will run through Sunday, to the 1970s with the hope that the inaccessibility of the classical original will melt away with the modernizing adjustments such as the transformation of the original priests into hippies. With this new setting mixing the lighthearted and the dark...
...many years the city has been trying to put together an ambitious downtown arts district, an ensemble of museums, theaters and an opera house designed by marquee-name architects. And last weekend Dallas celebrated the opening of two of the final big pieces of the puzzle. One of them, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, is the product of a collaboration between the Dutch architect-polemicist Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of REX Architects. The other, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, is from the mighty office of the British architect Lord Norman Foster. The buildings...
...stroll from the Wyly to the Winspear Opera House just across from it is to go from the raw to the cooked. The Wyly is a box full of ideas about ways to organize the theatergoing experience, but it has a deliberately rawboned feel, with few concessions to anybody's ideas of elegance, no grand limestone swoops like the one Pei provided for the lobby of his symphony hall nearby. Foster and his head of design, Spencer de Grey, weren't interested in rethinking the opera house from the ground up. What they did instead was briskly update...
...after 60 years of constant knuckle cracking, you won’t be getting it anytime soon either). Between the man—excuse me, human spotlight—wearing only silver body paint, sneakers, and a Speedo, not to mention the ongoing poker game, the mini-opera, and the constant multilingual interruptions, FM was not sure what to make of the corybantic stage. However, the crowd loved every minute of the ceremony, cheering every time the word “risk”—this year’s theme—was uttered...