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Decadence in magenta plus strong singing makes good opera. At three hours, L'Incoronazione di Poppea is a lazy, titillating show with a beautiful string orchestra. The Aggasiz stage is great all-around, and Poppea is fun to watch...
...been proud, especially if he had seen the costuming. Perhaps it was the "irony" of looking at the scantily costumed goddess Virtue (Katie Szal '99), or the cute power behind choir boy Jonathan "Yoni" Heilman's role as Amor that so easily distracted me from the layout of the orchestra pit. More probably it was the beautiful magenta flush of the entire stage, revealed at last as the prelude finished...
Returning to the University the money he won from the Wendell Scholarship his first year, he is paying the orchestra members for their time, creating a new standard in the Harvard pits which is usually staffed by under-rehearsed, if generous, volunteers. Likening parts to "the romantic climaxes of West Side Story" and others to "Jaws 20 years before its time," Allanbrook Jr. emphasizes Ethan Frome's unique ability to "bring down the idea that opera is a rarified musical form" because it is "accessible and unified--as music and theater should be when put together...
...half of the program, Norris was the main event. He had obviously established a rapport with the music and was excited about performance. There were flourishes in his music and motions. At the end of a phrase he would sweep his arms up as if to gesture to the orchestra and say, "Now it's your turn." The piano concerto is one of those pieces that is supposed to put all the listeners in awe of the pianist. It is fun to hear, and maybe even more fun to watch it performed. Perhaps Norris was a little too virtuosic...
...hear a composer's lesser known works, much like finding more sonnets by Shakespeare or short stories by Hemingway. The beginning of the Capriccio Brillant, Op. 22, was more lovely than brilliant. Short and sweet, it was one of Mendelssohn's three single movement pieces for piano and orchestra...