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...William Tell country: near Rütli is the town of Altdorf, where the legendary peasant farmer is reputed to have shot an apple from his son's head and then despatched the Austrian bailiff who forced him to do it. All around is the mountain scenery that inspired Rossini's operatic homage to the Tell legend. It is breathtakingly beautiful, yet remains largely unknown outside Switzerland. (See 50 essential travel tips...
...meantime, we've got some Ig ridiculousness to get you through the week: Lab coat-wearing accordionists playing Rossini in Memorial Hall before the event...
...which impresses with all manner of embellishments, fast scales and long trills. The playlist judiciously balances pieces that appeal to the aesthete yet remain accessible to the opera-ignorant: most of the extracts - performed for a couple of minutes at approximately 15-minute intervals - are familiar arias by Verdi, Rossini, Bizet and Mozart. (See 10 things to do in London...
With a theatrical flair fit for Rossini, Adjah led a mock funeral procession through campus dining halls on April 3 to dramatize the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. The following morning, student protesters converged on Loeb House at the eastern edge of the Yard, as Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR)—which makes the final call in matters of divestiture—met inside...
...arbitrary in picking six cherished operas as his text, and even more so in including Schubert's two greatest song cycles, on the theory that they are "distinctly operatic." His basic argument is that Mozart's Marriage of Figaro expresses the Enlightenment's belief in reason and reconciliation, that Rossini's Barber of Seville reflects the post-Napoleonic withdrawal from emotional involvement, and that Schubert's Winterreise and Schöne Müllerin represent the Romantics' concentration on the individual and his relationship to nature. Similarly, he asserts that Berlioz's Trojans dramatizes the 19th century's obsession with history, that...