Word: operatice
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Everything must contribute to the success of this goal, and of course the scenery and costumes play a large part in this undertaking. Although an opera can be enjoyed on cassette or radio, to see it is to truly believe it; there is little doubt that as a spectacle seen...
In 1955, Douglas Allanbrook '48 played the piano reduction of his Ethan Frome for Aaron Copland, who tentatively promised to give the opera a New York premiere after requesting a second play-through. Soon after, however, Copeland finished his own Tender Land, which he produced instead. "Immensely proud" and wanting...
The key to all this is water, whose conspicuous display and consumption is as important a sign of luxury, of control over Nature, to Vegas entrepreneurs as it was to the Umayyad caliphs who began building the fountains of the Alhambra on a dry hillside near Granada 12 centuries ago...
Most impressive of all is Adam Guettel, Richard Rodgers' grandson, who is living proof of the power of good genes. Best known for his 1996 musical Floyd Collins, Guettel is a startlingly original songwriter who, judging by the four songs included on Way Back to Paradise, has a straight shot...
I am completely unable to fathom why it is you bring this up considering that a) Lowell has not, at least in recent memory, been a terribly operatic house; b) the Lowell House Opera has no recent history of casting large numbers of Lowell residents; and c) the Lowell House...