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Collaboration is the lifeblood of the musical theater: Mozart and Da Ponte, Verdi and Boito, Strauss and Hofmannsthal. But posthumous collaboration has had to wait until the advent of the phonograph, motion pictures and the camcorder. Today the late George Gershwin can play Rhapsody in Blue with Michael Tilson Thomas, Natalie Cole can sing a duet with her deceased dad Nat King Cole--and composer Philip Glass can write a trilogy of operas with the French author, aesthete and movie director Jean Cocteau, dead since...
...seniors laugh at? The Grille, yes, but I was actually referring to sections. Sections are something we can all relate to--they are an unavoidable aspect of academic life at Harvard. In our four-year journey here, our relationship with sections is in constant flux and development. If Verdi had been at Harvard he would have said, "La sections et mobile" ("how fickle are sections"). Sections take us on a real emotional roller coaster. Each year marks the beginning of a new stage in this stormy romance...
...Core Review Committee lies lying dormant this summer, but when it returns to full force in the fall, it would be well-advised to require a class in music appreciation: appreciating all types of classical music, from Verdi to Vivaldi...
...Figaro" is not demanding in the same way as a Verdi or Wagner opera; sheer volume and range are less important here than lyric grace and vocal agility. But in some of Mozart's more convoluted ensembles--"Figaro" boasts several scenes in which more than six people are singing simultaneously--that agility can be just as difficult as a louder and showier Verdi aria. Just the elaborate recitatives, which are crucial to advance the plot, require a daunting combination of comic skill and vocal dexterity. What's more, "Figaro" has at least five major singing roles, and a weak voice...
...CARLOS: If any art form would seem at home with tragedy, it would be opera--yet even Verdi wasn't above the altered ending. In his 1867 opera, Don Carlos, a full-throated tale of royal intrigue, the titular tenor is saved from doom by heavenly intervention. In the 1787 Schiller play on which the opera is based, Don Carlos is handed over to the Spanish inquisition--by his own father...