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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-05 16:00:29
[…] into how every gear turns in the well-oiled machine. The pursuit of curiosity is a fundamental one for me, and has evidently taken many forms. Yes, it may come from direct conversation or lecture. However, simply witnessing an act come into fruition is often enough. For Edna, the protagonist of The Unknowable, this is certainly the case. Ultimately, I synergized what I had learned through my senior thesis with my undergraduate directorial experiences – with the Harvard College Opera and Harvard Ballet Company – to create this story. The themes of my thesis and the forms I encountered in my musical direction lent themselves beautifully to this interweaving tapestry I call ‘operatic ballet.’ Libretto and Music by Benjamin T. Rossen '23, with additional music by Hector Berlioz and Gustav MahlerDirected by Haley Stark ‘25Choreographed by Emily ParkerMusic Directed by Benjamin T. Rossen The post appeared […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-01-17 00:01:05
Droit du seigneur…OMG The Harvard College Opera Society , formerly the Dunster House Opera Society, began 25 years as the University’s premier undergraduate company. HCO now presents one full-length opera each February with an entirely-undergraduate cast and production team. This year’s Le Nozze di Figaro features over 50 students from Harvard College, Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. According to stage director Joule Voelz, “Our 25th-Anniversary production attempts to capture the timeless quality of Mozart’s musical exploration of love and human weakness. In the vaguely 18th-century Rene Magritte-inspired palace of Count Almaviva, our familiar cast of characters meet to play out a day of folly. Members of our eclectic ensemble all sport distinctive quirks: Marcellina an aging flapper, Basilio a carnival barker, and more. It’s not a period piece, but rather an anti-period piece that aims to suspend disbelief for the sake of […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-02-05 22:08:09
Modernist Masterpiece Given by Harvard Players
The Rake’s Progress, the culmination of Stravinsky’s long-established neoclassicism, had its world premiere in Venice in 1951 and many successful professional performances since then worldwide. This 18th-century fable, with memorable verse libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, has now entered the realm of outstanding student performance, right up there with Mozart, Gilbert & Sullivan, and West Side Story. It was national news when Sarah Caldwell, then at Boston University, brought off a production there in 1953. It seemed almost unheard of in the 1960s that a semi-professional group at UCLA, under the leadership of a school of music, could produce what was, after all, a still-new and difficult work by a living master. And last night, singers and orchestra under the aegis of the Harvard College Opera Society coped with the near impossible and largely overcame it, with complete confidence and refreshing success. Among the principals only Eric Ritter as […]
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