Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prezzi Bomba!, a jazz-fusion-Tibetan-post-existential-oboe-playing group takes the stage tonight at Agassiz Theater at 8:00. Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone, who teaches a Core course on Jazz, performs with keyboardist John Rabinowitz, clarinetist David Rothenberg and drummer Marc David Carnegie. Tickets for this performance are $5, and they can be purchased at the door...
Granted, this is Harvard, not La Scala. I walked into the Lowell House dining hall expecting to be only pleasantly surprised. I remembered the Lowell House Opera productions of the past, with competent singers having to double-project over a multitudinous orchestra placed in front of the stage, keeping audience members from having a clear view...
...more than able to compensate for her occasional lack of projection Susanna's most memorable aria, coming late in the fourth act ("Giunse alfin il momento che godro senza affanno"--"At last the moment is near when carefree I shall exult") was quite beautiful and an exercise in difficult stage acting as well. Nelman's Figaro was an equally dashing figure with a formidable presence...
...pixieish Cherubino (always played by a woman), Charney has held her own alongside her more mature counterparts. Credited with the fluid stage choreography, Charney lent her comic side to the oftentimes befuddled (and well-named) Cherubino, who loves all women of all types...
...knack for stand-up comedy. Larry O'Keefe, who plays the sinister Cromwell, also has a penchant for firing off one-liners. Although he is always amusing, O'Keefe lacks the bravura that the role of the villainous Cromwell requires. His entrances, such as when he breezes onto the stage while chomping on apples, are always interesting too watch, but O'Keefe's performance is not convincing enough to leave anyone in the audience quivering in fear...