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...March, Levine will return to Harvard for a symposium on Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman, which the BSO will perform later that month. The event will feature scholars from around the world and soloists performing with the symphony...
Levine’s tenure as music director was greeted this year with a large amount of buzz in classical music circles. A renowned conductor and pianist, Levine is credited with bringing the Metropolitan Opera (which he still conducts) to new heights. Critics worldwide predict that he will live up to his reputation and raise the caliber of the BSO as well...
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 by the Harvard University Art Museums, VES, and GSD. Free and open to the public through April 17 at the Carpenter Center Sert Gallery...
...these elements together and you have the puppet opera created by French artist Pierre Huyghe (pronounced hweeg) celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
Huyghe’s project details the events in a 24-minute short film, “Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project.” The puppet opera, with its soundtrack of DJ scratches, depicts both the major players behind the creation of the Carpenter Center and contemporary art connoisseurs. Harvard is represented in a catch-all character named Harvard Dean of Deans, who physically mirrors both Darth Vader and a flying beetle. Linda Norden, associate curator at the Fogg Art Museum, describes the puppet opera as illustrating “Harvard’s relationships to living...