Word: clorinda
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...which he argued against Shakespeare's reputation as history's pre-eminent playwright. Renaissance dramatists Thomas Middleton and Robert Greene were good and even great, but definitely not as great as Shakespeare. My enjoyment of Shakespeare's language, wit and universality has grown steadily over the past 50 years. Clorinda Schaumburg Tübingen, Germany The Price of Victory? I broke down while reading "One morning in Haditha" [March 27], the story of the Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. Marines. Military excesses should never be covered up and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The lives...
Talented costume designers Katherine S. Dain ’04 and Caroline T. Koo ’04 miss no details, using a seemingly boundless imagination to craft elaborate frocks and extravagant dresses that suit each of their characters, in all senses. Jealous stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe wear gaudy gowns appropriate to their rather foul—if extremely entertaining—temperaments, while Cinderella (or Angelina, as Rossini dubbed her) emerges radiant from her tattered rags in a sparkling white wedding gown sans veil...
...hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita Guglielmi (Half Sister Clorinda) can make her hoopskirt behave like a Hula-Hoop and still sing is her secret and Ponnelle's. But it is immense fun to watch...
This weekend Harvard and the Juilliard School of Music collaborated on a Loeb production of two "experimental" works of musical theatre, one from the 1620's and one from the 1960's. The first of these, Claudio Monteverdi's II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, is a kind of stage cantata. A narrator describes and comments on a fight between Tancredi and Clorinda, while they act out the battle, occasionally singing a phrase or two themselves. In this production, Robert Jones as the narrator, Alan Titus as Tancredi, and Evelyn Mandac as Clorinda all sang excellently, although some of Miss...
...slowly as its verbal description; but the rather stylized battle he gave Titus and Miss Mandac was unimaginative and full of gaps in which nothing in particular happened. The abstract slides projected on a blackboard behind the performers added little or nothing, and the sunset that appeared behind Clorinda's dying speech was downright embarrassing...