Word: orfeo
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...John Harvard’s Brewery sat two opposing households: the Montagues and the Capulets. Their ancient grudge, having lain dormant for a whole year, is about to break to new mutiny in the yearly celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday. The Actors’ Shakespeare Project, the Orfeo Group, the American Repertory Theater, the Central Square Theatre, the Cambridge Arts Council, multiple other Cambridge-based drama groups, and the Harvard Square Business Association have joined together for the last three years to commemorate the birth of the prolific English playwright. Thus, on April...
...Agassiz Theatre DATES: Nov. 10 – Nov 12 DIRECTOR: Joshua H. Billings ’07 PRODUCERS: Emily C. Richmond '06 and Michael V. Givey '06Continuing their successful track record after last year’s much-praised production of “L’Orfeo,” The Harvard Early Music Society (HEMS) again impressed audiences with polished artistry in the weekend performance of two operatic works: “Les Plaisirs De Versailles” and “Actéon.” True to its origins, the work by composer Marc...
...community has been very “open,” but I would argue that the separate areas of artistic interest might benefit from working together a bit more. There tends to be little opportunity for fusion among the various artistic fields. In that sense, L’Orfeo has offered a wonderful stage on which to blend my love of theatre and music...
Well, unfortunately, I was not able to go out and experience life as a goddess, or explore the underworld to get a “feel” for what [the goddess, my character in L’Orfeo] Speranza must have really felt. Preparation for this role ultimately involved educating myself on the particular style of music. I knew shamefully little going into this project, but to be able to perform this type of music, I really had to work to grasp the method behind it (not that I am claiming to have become an expert...
What was it like to have someone like Knafel Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelley, who is so accustomed to teaching about and intimately familiar with the authentic L’Orfeo opera, play a main role in the staging of this production? Was there a great deal of attention paid to detail...