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...Portuguese. One time I was in Brazil, and my visa was expiring, and there was a soap opera I was really into, and I didn’t have enough money to stay...I just asked them if I could stay until the end of the soap opera. They thought it was so ridiculous so they said...
Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Sorcerer” follows a fairly simple recipe: combine a cast of eccentric villagers with a powerful love potion and see what hijinks ensue. The new production by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players of the classic opera and satire of early Victorian life, which opened last night and runs through November 15 at the Agassiz Theatre, aims to successfully convey the piece’s whimsical nature...
Noting the hard work the entire cast and crew have put in, Sofia M. Selowsky ’12, a campus opera veteran who plays Lady Sangazure, is very confident about the show. “The whole crew has been absolutely fantastic and very efficient and organized. I’m hoping people will find it funny and we’re working with some special effects this year, which will be cool,” she says. These effect-laden sequences, which include a scene where one character is swallowed into the fires of hell, help add action...
...whimsical and wonderful,” she says. Other cast members call Gilbert and Sullivan works absurd, hilarious, and even topsy-turvy. With this enthusiasm for their subject matter, it’s clear that the cast and crew are far from stressed about their work on the opera. If that translates onto the stage, the result is sure to be a lighthearted, harmonious, and humorous production...
...English vocabulary and are given help improving their résumés and job-interviewing skills - in English. "These are students who've wanted to improve their English as part of many things they'll need in their careers," says Alain Nothern, the polyglot director of Berlitz's Opera center. "The focus is English, but it's a wider tool kit for the business world...