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...Wondering if Christmas still exists in the outside world? The Boston Ballet’s rendition of “The Nutcracker” should have you loving the holiday season in no time. Dec. 6 to 7, 7:30 pm. Dec. 8, 1 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Boston Opera House. Tickets start at $27.50. 4) Singing Sensations Body and Soul: The Din & Tonics and The Callbacks in their winter concert. As the tagline says, it’ll be “a night you won’t soon forget!” Dec. 7, 8 p.m. Sanders...
This weekend, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ “The Mikado” went up at Agassiz Theater. “Mikado,” which tells a story of love, law, and decapitation, is among Gilbert and Sullivan’s 14 light operas of the late 19th century, one of the most popular operas ever written.“The Mikado” is a biting satire lampooning British government and society. We know from the outset that the Japan presented is too much of a caricature for the play to be truly about Japan...
...acting elements of the production are uniformly excellent. The orchestra is wonderful, giving each song a unique energy that does not overwhelm the action on stage—something that has been a challenge for Harvard opera in the past...
Boston Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” began its 40th season at the Boston Opera House yesterday. The historic venue will host thousands of theater-going Bostonians every weekend from now until the new year, officially ringing in the holidays with ballet’s major cash cow. But for the frugal-minded collegiate crowd (who are either too cold or too postmodern to leave the dorms for a night at the ballet), there is an alternative Tchaikovsky and E.T.A. Hoffmann fix. Get your hands on a copy of the 1977 American Ballet Theater production...
...inter-”, it has attempted to balance a respect for tradition and a cosmopolitan outlook. As part of their five-year residency with Harvard, the Silk Road Ensemble has spent the past week developing a chamber arrangement of Uzeyir’s Azerbajani opera “Layla and Majnun.” Before departing on a tour of Japan, the ensemble will present their retelling of this classic Middle Eastern love story as a work-in-progress to the Harvard community.CROSS-CULTURAL COMPOSITIONThe ensemble’s version truncates the original three-and-a-half-hour operatic...