Word: orly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Losey's breakthrough is the meticulous attention he gives to sonic perspective. Many made-for-TV opera films ludicrously maintain the same concert-hall acoustic whether the singer is standing in a bedchamber or a wheatfield. In Don Giovanni, when the camera zooms in on a singer's mouth, the...
The prospect of juggling the schedules of international opera stars, a conductor, and a symphony orchestra on top of the usual scheduling troubles of any film have generally daunted directors; Losey has shown that it can be done. It now remains for someone to do it, better--because this is...
The people who will go see Losey's film are the same people who buy seats for the Metropolitan Opera when it visits Boston each spring, not the great unwashed "masses" who couldn't care less about opera, who would rather see the latest Airport movie than Don Giovanni--or...
Silber's opponents charge that his dictatorial actions have turned B.U. into a place "more like Iran under the Shah or Chile under the Junta than like an institution of higher learning," in the words of one critic. They charge him with using tenure, promotions, and salaries to punish his...
Quinn added that protests in Cambridge over excessive spending for Red Line construction encouraged other communities to speak about costs. He said the advisory board may eventually set monthly or quarterly budgets so the MBTA improves its accountability to the public.