Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...composed within two years of each other toward the end of Puccini's career, and both exemplify his talent for making characters and emotions emerge from a complex musical tissue of motivic patterns. These pieces show Puccini at his most delicate, working with subjects that demand greater lightness of touch than the tragic loves of his better-known operas. The duster House double-bill, put together by an all-student cast and production team, is full of talent and enthusiasm. Even if it misses some of Puccini's subtleties, it amply conveys the charm of two lesser-known gems...
...Schicchi turns on the engaging protagonist, a wily peasant who thwarts the rapacious Donati, a family of Florentine landowners, in order to provide his daughter and her lover with the money they need to wed. All of the opera's characters are sharply delineated, with a delicate but mordant touch of satire--the greedy relatives (the Donati), the starry-eyed lover (Rinuccio), and the resourceful swindler (Schicchi...
...secondary roles are competently filled. Coventry Edwards-Pitt as the matronly Zita has a strong voice with just a touch of roughness. A hunched-over, finger-wagging Steven R. Bocchino plays an appropriately avuncular Simone...
Overall, the piece is a delightful success.Under the sure guidance and light touch ofSaccente's Gianni Schicchi, the opera rises to acomic crescendo. When Saccente appears alone onstage to beg forgiveness (and applause)--after hehas evicted the avaricious Donati from the housethey have unwittingly willed to him and united thehappy lovers--the audience is only too happy toenter a plea of "not guilty...
...BUZZ has spread across campus, at least among those in touch with the culinary aspects of Harvard life. Currier House, long disparaged as the lowliest of houses, the Quaddest of the Quad, has recently acquired a frozen yogurt machine, sparking fits of jealousy among low-fat fanatics as well as less cal-conscious fans of soft desserts. Currier residents, like the first family on the block to get a color TV or a '57 Chevy, jump at any opportunity to express their pride. Chris Baker '96 goes so far as to predict that application to Currier house will experience...