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...production of “Cosi Fan Tutte” (February 8-9 and 13-14) marks the 15th anniversary of the Dunster House Opera (DHO) series. To learn more about this year’s opera, The Harvard Crimson caught up with stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 and musical director John M. Sullivan ’09. Spellberg and Sullivan worked the DHO’s “Marriage of Figaro” last year as well. At last year’s Arts First festival, Spellberg took his opera-directing talents outside...
...show, considering that it premiered on a particularly cold Thursday.“King Arthur” brought heroes, spirits, magicians, and talented musicians to Agassiz Theatre. Music director Matthew J. Hall ’09, stage director Catherine E. Powell ’08, and producer Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 conjured this colorful ensemble and blended music with action to create a satisfying, if somewhat uneven, experience of theater from another epoch.Love is indeed the driving force behind this unusual, three-centuries-old interpretation of the King Arthur legend. There are no heroic quests...
...written music,” explains Hall. “You have to play the music in an intelligent way in order to bring the piece to life.”“It’s a kind of controlled improvisation,” says Matthew M. Spellberg ’09, the show’s producer. “It functions sort of the same way jazz does, with these conventional ways to embellish the written music.”Of course, the way that the music is written is not the only thing that...
...Boston Early Music Festival this June and as part of an arts festival in Versailles this summer. The piece that Koch will take to France uses dance to bring a novel, dramatic element to the HEMS show. The director of the Harvard Early Music Society showcase, Matthew M. Spellberg ’09, wanted dance to accompany the cantatas he was setting for “Métamorphoses,” so he convinced Koch to do the choreography. “He wanted to actually reintegrate the theatricals,” Koch says of the piece.Koch says...
...lying, cheating, and mischievous lovers well, amusing the audience consistently throughout the comedic opera, and for the most part delivering on their promise to make the opera “accessible.” Directed by Caitlin C. Vincent ’07 and produced by Matthew M. Spellberg ’09, and under the musical direction of John M. Sullivan ’09, the Feb. 9 performance of “Figaro” showcased the talent of the student-run group, which performed in the Dunster House Dining Hall.The world of “Figaro?...