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...unit that had golden aspirations. On Friday, the Americans fell in a semifinal shocker to Sweden, 3-2, in a shootout. The result, which will have long-term reverberations in women’s hockey, was surely the sport’s biggest upset ever on the international stage. Since 1990 and the inception of the world championships, the United States and Canada had lost only to each other, and were universally forecasted to meet in the gold-medal game for the third straight Olympiad. The Americans captured the inaugural crown in Nagano in 1998 before the Canadians prevailed...
...first. But Mozart's final and most popular work - in which Egyptian prince Tamino (Kim) is enlisted by the Queen of the Night (Farrugia) to rescue her daughter Pamina (Matthews) from a secret sect - is also about how appearances can be deceiving. And amidst all the stage pyrotechnics of the new production, Freeman's main focus has been on the singers. "If you don't change the quality of the central performances," he says, "you change nothing...
...experience taught him the importance of long rehearsal periods, something he has campaigned for ever since. At the now-defunct Opera Factory, he was famous for training his singers in yoga, primal screaming and Butoh dance, and his productions successfully broke down the image of a singer plonked on stage. (Musically adventurous as well, Freeman will premiere a hip-hop opera based on the life of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the ENO in September.) "He's highly organic," says Potra, "and he doesn't believe in putting harnesses onto performers...
...Amelia Ferrugia ascends on her mechanical moon at a recent rehearsal, Freeman encourages his Queen to command the stage with her gestures ("but not Shirley Bassey ones"). Caught in the folds of her drapery below, Jaewoo Kim is coaxed to treat her presence like perfume. "Can that be more intense?" Freeman later asks. Every now and then, the director drops back to view the scene through the frame of his hands. Such details will make all the difference when his vision is unveiled, and Freeman hopes it will share with Shakespeare the quality of being "both spontaneous and inevitable...
...most everyone is familiar with the story of Juliet and her sweet Romeo. In the American Repertory Theater’s production of the Bard’s “Romeo and Juliet,” director Gadi Roll confronts the challenge of staging a version of the play which is new, or at least interesting. The production, whose run lasts through March 25, goes out of its way to make the play fresh, with results that, while occasionally misguided, are never anything but stunning. Needing very little introduction, “Romeo and Juliet” is Shakespeare?...