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...highlights of the show were the performances from soloists and their incredible harmonization with the mighty sound of the 90-member chorus. From voices reminiscent of Phantom of the Opera, to modern rhythms, to classical selections and back again to tribal hymns, the show captivated observers not just with beautiful music but with a well-constructed tempo...
Merry Christmas, moviegoers! What does Hollywood have in store for you this wintry holiday season? Paris Hilton with clothes? Lindsey Lohan tying up loose ends with dear old dad in rehab? Creepy men with masks stalking around the opera house? Super-mega-ultra-epic biopics directed by Martin Scorcese? Nope. Sorry. You’ll be too busy buying late presents for the family you’ve neglected to catch a flick any time before New Year’s. What to buy? DVDs, of course...
This exhibit features a multidisciplinary project by Pierre Huyghe that explores Le Corbusier’s vision for the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. Components include a puppet opera, a temporary architectural extension and a video work based on the puppet opera, which will run continuously in the Sert Gallery. Sponsored in part by the Harvard University Art Museums, VES and GSD. Free and open to the public through April 17th at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery...
...exhibition of Utzon's proposed interiors (as breathtaking as the exterior, the two halls were to echo waves of sound with the world's longest sheets of plywood). Ten years on, the cleverly executed and conceived "Studio of J?rn Utzon" succeeds in getting inside the architect's head. "The Opera House is really the embodiment of his consciousness," Murphy says. Projected to the left of the entrance is black and white footage of Utzon in exile, walking through a snowy forest in Denmark; to the right is his last completed Opera House model, from 1966 - "so we have...
...Which is how Utzon finds himself back on the building he has found impossible to leave. During his 38-year absence, the Opera House has opened up, rather inelegantly, three new theatres along the western boardwalk. To integrate them better with the harbor, Utzon and his architects have turned once more to the Mayan temples of his youthful travels. Their $A6 million colonnade, due to open late next year, has been inspired by the Court of a Thousand Columns at Yucatan. In the meantime, we have the modest and lovely Utzon Room, which reveals his original vaulted ceiling, the bare...