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The Dunster House Opera (DHO), founded twelve years ago, intended to provide a more accessible form of operatic entertainment as all its operas are sung in English, while the Lowell House Opera (LHO) has produced an opera annually since 1938. This season DHO is producing Mozart’s classic...
Reunited is affecting not because the viewer deeply cared about Klymaxx or Romeo Void--did anyone?--but because it's both more poignant and more uplifting than Behind the Music. Its paunchy New Wavers are not operatic figures; they're just folks with jobs who have moved on to other...
Is it possible for a musical to be really about something--to grapple with serious issues of race and class, childhood loss and adult guilt--and not feel like homework? That's the question raised by Caroline, or Change, the most ambitious new musical of New York City's rather...
Yet Caroline--like Caroline--doesn't move us as she should. The anecdote that sets the story in motion seems too thin to carry the message-laden freight. The broader social milieu--the early civil-rights movement, the J.F.K. assassination--is merely introduced, not dramatized. The musical aims for operatic...
Seventy-five percent of the year’s inductees attended the ceremony which also honored Peter Agre, the 2003 Noble Prize in Chemistry recipient, poet Robert Creeley, recording industry innovator Ray Dolby and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Operatic baritone Sherrill Milnes performed for his fellow inductees at the...