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What: The nationally acclaimed Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum will be performing the works by Haydn, Schutz, and Monteverdi accompanied by two professional orchestras on March 26th...
...certain degree of controversy and skepticism. Yet, it springs from a seminal period in operatic history, and its synopsis is guaranteed to satisfy a tradition-seeking audience. Opera companies are bolder in mounting productions of lesser-known operas from the early 17th and early 18th centuries, like those of Monteverdi and Handel, but performances of works from the mid-to-late 1600s are rare. Thus, the ambition of the HEMS in selecting this somewhat hazardous reprisal is all the more admirable, but it also subjects itself to an intense test of finesse and intelligence. The uniqueness of its subject...
...generally know ahead of time how much effort you have to put into publicity,” says Emily C. Zazulia ’06 from the Collegium Musicum choir. “We did the Monteverdi ‘Vespers’ with a full orchestra about a month ago, and we knew the piece itself wasn’t going to sell on campus. Boston, though, has such a flourishing early music scene, so we really pushed off-campus publicity...
...OPERA | Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
...concert revival of a Broadway show sounds simple enough - get the sheet music, assemble a band and a cast, and start playing. Not always. A 17th century Monteverdi opera has cleaner, fuller charts than many an old Broadway hit, whose arrangements might have ended up in the garage or the garbage. The sheet music for the Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II "Sweet Adeline," which had been performed outdoors, was festooned with mosquito carcasses. As Judith Daykin, who brought the series to City Center, told TIME's Elaine Rivera for an Encores! story we did in 1998: "The musicians didn't know...