Word: sylvan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sanford Sylvan and David Breitman--Thursday, April 2, 8 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium. Dance...
What U.S. cultural magnet is located in Cooperstown, N.Y.? Easy: GLIMMERGLASS OPERA. Well, yes, the Baseball Hall of Fame is there too, but in contrast to the Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass's hits (and its basses) are onstage. Set along the sylvan shore of Otsego Lake, the festival is noted for its ambitious repertory and stable of budding American singers. This summer's season features a Jonathan Miller production of Beethoven's Fidelio, in which Miller does not change the 18th century prison locale to one of those voguish operatic places he calls "nowhere and nowhen," but instead treats...
...consist mostly of guys milling outside castles and roaring like juiced-up fans at a Midlands football match. But Bergin does invest the woodsman from the 1190s with a bit of 1990s Green Power. Waging guerrilla war against the ravagers of Sherwood Forest, Bergin is at one with his sylvan surroundings -- a butch Bambi...
Expertly conducted by Kent Nagano, the cast included such Nixon veterans -- and Sellars favorites -- as Sanford Sylvan as Klinghoffer, James Maddalena as the ship's captain and Stephanie Friedman as one of the terrorists...
Lynch brings this canny naivete, this promiscuous curiosity, to every aspect of his life and work. It could be a trait bred from childhood -- a sylvan youth of eagle-scout badges and family camping trips, spent amid the Pacific Northwest trees that today loom over Twin Peaks. "My father was a scientist for the Forest Service," Lynch says. "He would drive me through the woods in his green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap...