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...sitting down,” Eva B. Rosenberg ’10 said. “Everyone is there at more or less the same time, and there’s always fun conversations and bonding. It’s the best way to show a non-Co-oper what it’s about...
...best known for singing foreign operas in English and setting classics in the more recent past - last season saw Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème staged in the fragile interwar period of 1930s Paris. But while other European opera houses experiment with extreme directorial conceits - Germany's Komische Oper recently performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in an S&M torture chamber - the ENO has found a way to make old favorites feel revitalized rather than remade. "We have to remember what made these classics great in the first place," Berry explains. (See pictures of London...
...battle, and Paine’s impact can still be felt over 20 years after his death: former Co-oper Edward R. Barna ’70 named his son after Paine. And Joe Pesci’s character in With Honors, a 1994 movie directed by a Harvard College grad, was based on Paine...
...Both could not remember a single Co-oper in recent memory who had gone into investment banking or consulting, as 39 percent of this year’s graduating seniors entering into the workforce are doing...
...Calatrava's passion for the project is particularly notable because opera is, in many places, a dying art. Long-established houses like Milan's La Scala, Berlin's Deutsche Oper and even New York City's Met struggle to fill seats. The reasons for opera's slow decline are legion. Classical music critic and consultant Greg Sandow points to governments' dwindling support of the arts, a paucity of singers with the ability to perform the standard repertoire, and above all, audiences that look elsewhere for entertainment...