Word: operettas
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RALPH'S WORLD: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KID ASTRO Imagine Ziggy Stardust--era David Bowie doing the theme for a Nickelodeon cartoon, and you'll have the title track, a 3-min. rock operetta about a space boy who gets powers from a magic comet (but still has to go to school). From there, alt rocker turned children's rocker Ralph Covert runs through genres like a kid hitting every ride at a theme park: British Invasion backbeats, infectious Buddy Holly stomps and fanciful finger picking...
Conceived in 1913 as a Viennese operetta but developed at Puccini's insistence into a more operatic work, La Rondine has never been considered the equal of such tearjerkers as La Bohčme or Madama Butterfly. Its resemblances to both Bohčme and Verdi's La Traviata are held against it, as are its less serious origins. "It has proved the weakest of Puccini's works, uneasily hovering between opera and operetta and devoid of striking lyrical melody," wrote Puccini Scholar Mosco Carner in a typical critical assessment...
...operetta, however, like most of Gilbert and Sullivan’s productions, is a farce. Women’s education and feminism in general are made to look ridiculous throughout the operetta. For this and many other reasons, Princess Ida is rarely produced nowadays...
...HRGSP produce an operetta twice a year and most operas cycle through once every four years. Princess Ida has not been performed at Harvard since 1996 and the production board, which decided to put on the operetta before the controversy surrounding Summers’ remarks, was worried it might fall out of circulation...
Despite the many obstacles to successfully producing Princess Ida, director Charles I. Miller ’08 believes the operetta is “a gem.” Miller says he was offended by the apparent misogynism of the operetta, but saw in the Tennyson poem a way around it. Synthesizing the Tennyson poem and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Miller brought lines from the poem into the operetta to change the tone a bit, especially...