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...Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” is, more or less, everything it should be. Stage director Kate D. Greenhalgh ’05 and producer Sarah S. Eggleston ’07 put on a dangerously modern interpretation of a dangerously modern opera, originally written by Bertolt Brecht and translated into English by Marc Blitzstein. LHO’s show will run March 8, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. in the Lowell House Dining Hall.Set in mid-eighteenth century Soho, London, the opera nonetheless captures the moral...
...Koenigs, ‘09. While the group expects such programming to have off-campus appeal, for now, HRTV is focusing its appeal on the Harvard community. In the past, only HRTV’s program “Ivory Tower” was available online. The soap opera regularly attracted upwards of 15,000 viewers per episode, according to Koenigs. But download tracking software revealed that the majority of the show’s viewers were not actually from Harvard, or the United States for that matter. In fact, most were from South Korea. As a result, HRTV...
...definitely want to stay with theater in some capacity. At this point I think it would be really fun to do high-school theater or theater with kids. I’ve had a great time with the Boston Children’s Opera. I still work there as a stage manager and as a camp counselor over the summer. In fact, I just performed there the other day as a pirate in “Treasure Island...
...Eggleston doesn’t simply do opera for opera’s sake. Rather, she says, she enjoys the aesthetics as well as the interesting community...
People who do opera are definitely unique. I mean, where else do you get such divas? Then it’s that added complication of putting the music in with the staging. When an opera’s in another language, it’s even more exciting. There’s this element of, who knows what’s going to happen next? And it’s so much fun when you’ve got full costumes, full staging, full orchestra, full everything. It appeals to so many senses...