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BEFORE The Bald Magic Hamlet begins, director Mark Prascak explains that his adaptation--which combines Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Shakespeare's Hamlet-- means to show that the plays are related through "parallel mythic structures" and that the three authors were probably drunk "and you should be too." Then he offers each member of the audience a beer...
...trees in Currier's dining hall, but he ended up putting it on in Currier's nearby Fishbowl. This year, the trees are gone, but Prascak gets his wish, as the dining hall will be the site of his musical adaptation of three works: Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Shakespeare's Hamle...
Since 1985, when Leonard Bernstein's 1957 musical West Side Story was released with an operatic cast that included soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and tenor Jose Carreras -- and sold handsomely -- other shows have got the tony treatment on records: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (1945) and South Pacific (1949), and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956). Now, most impressive of all, comes Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1927 musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat...
...usual. This year's season opener, Giacomo Meyerbeer's hoary grand opera L'Africaine, typifies the ills that have afflicted the company. As Vasco da Gama, Tenor Placido Domingo sounds tired and wan, Maurizio Arena's conducting is enervated and Mansouri's own stage direction merely serviceable. Only veteran Soprano Shirley Verrett, as the regal Selika, captures the fiery spirit of Meyerbeer's diffuse and improbable last opera...
...musical ones and give his production a visual as well as a musical unity. Characters do not just stand and sing; they stand and deliver, fighting with fury or embracing with abandon, falling down faint in ecstasy. < As Wotan (Bass John Tomlinson) bids a sorrowing farewell to Brunnhilde (Soprano Deborah Polaski) at the end of Die Walkure, they both collapse facedown on the ground, overcome with emotion...