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...past year the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts hit middle age. In response to what may be an impending identity crisis, the University has thrown the concrete building a series of birthday celebrations. Following on a recent historical exhibition about the building is this “puppet opera,” which weaves together narratives of the building’s commission with Huyghe’s own experience working with a university patron given to bureaucratic excesses...
...OPERA | Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
...Harvard Early Music Society presents Montverdi’s famous opera, L’Orfeo, featuring Libretto by Alessandro Strigglio. Often referred to as the “first great opera,” Montverdi’s musical tale of the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice will be performed by a group of Harvard faculty and undergraduates, along with early music professionals from the area. Tickets $20, $9 for students, available at the Harvard Box office and online. Friday, Saturday at 8 p.m. Horner Room, Agassiz Theater...
...cheating on her. It sounds like the stuff of a TV after-school special, except for two things. They don't have after-school specials anymore. And this is part of a play, Laurie Brooks' Wrestling Season, so energetically stylized that it defuses any hint of preachiness or soap opera. The action takes place on a gym floor, where a referee periodically whistles scenes to a halt with calls like "illegal hold" or "unsportsmanlike conduct." When not in scenes, the class- mates turn into a chorus, chanting lines ("You think you know me, but you don't") that echo...
...pizza. Cambridge locals and Harvard students come together on Monday nights to share conversation, pizza and a love for average music. With approximately 200 songs to choose from, the selection is limited. However, a number of different genres are represented, from rock to hip-hop to a select few opera pieces. Perhaps the best thing about karaoke at Uno’s—besides its accessibility for the oh-so-lazy—is that it is essentially free. There’s no cover charge and no minimum bill, just the unspoken rule that to sing, you must...