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...Gerry Moshell chooses an opera for the Lowell House Music Society that is far beyond the scope of Harvard instrumentalists and local singers, and every year he manages to bring it off. With a string of three major successes behind him, this year Moshell tempted fate and selected Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, a work demanding an orchestra of virtuosi and a cast capable of tossing off the most treacherous vocal lines without strain. His most outrageous choice, it is his most outrageous success...
Ariadne was Strauss's way of allowing two rival traditions, opera seria and opera buffa, to interact with and define each other's strengths and weaknesses...
...English) consists of recitatives and spoken passages, as a regular opera company skirmishes with a troupe of comedians for possession of the stage. Their battle ends in a draw and each is forced to endure the other's presence on stage during the performance of the sorrows of Ariadne. Strauss uses the vigorous movement and comic music to undercut the idealized romantic opera on which the comedians trespass...
...leader of the comedians, personifies this fusion of dramatic and musical excellence. She manages to be coquettish while singing some of the most difficult coloratura writing in the literature. Her duet with the Composer (Loretta Giles) is the high point of the prologue, doing full justice to what Strauss called one of the finest things he ever wrote...
Ariadne auf Naxos. Another Lowell House Opera--cast and orchestra of thousands for an expansive score by Richard Strauss. Gerry Moshell, conducting. A required piece for all musical romantics, they say. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 8:30 in the Lowell House Dining Hall...