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...advised by his girlfriend to turn to the restorative power of music. "Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus," says Madge. "I had a long talk with a lady in musical therapy, Johnnie, and she says Mozart is the boy for you. A broom that sweeps the cobwebs away." In its 50th year, Opera Australia is hoping Mozart will be the boy for it. While its prognosis is better than Johnnie's, the country's flagship company has been gathering a few cobwebs lately. Since the hasty departure of music director and great hope Simone Young in 2003, OA faced first a crippling deficit...
...launch a new version combining vocal firepower (Amelia Ferrugia, Jaewoo Kim, Emma Matthews) with the aerial acrobatics of Legs on the Wall. Did someone mention crossover appeal? "You can't stay 19th century," says the production's designer, Dan Potra, who shares with his director the belief that opera will "die a slow, agonizing death" unless new elements are brought...
...contested plan to establish a criminal offense of "glorifying terrorism." At the end of the week, Blair was still in 10 Downing Street, Brown was still his next-door neighbor, and London's journalists were left wondering how they would keep their readers' interest in the longest-running soap opera in politics. And yet, and yet ? Though the Prime Minister may again have emulated Mark Twain and disappointed those who have announced his demise, the Blair era is indeed slowly coming to an end. He has said that he will not run for a fourth term in office. Given that...
...path to directing an opera with as high a level of intellectual and moral gravitas as Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” does not usually start amidst a musical complete with animal suits, an ugly duckling, and an exclamatory one-syllable title. Yet “Dialogues” music director Ben E. Green ’06 steadfastly resists categorization. Not only did Green, a classically trained pianist, begin his directing career supervising a high school production of “Honk!” he has also been involved with...
...matter what one thinks of the psychological and religious questions raised by the opera, this production is certainly a must...