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...Boston Opera House boasts cavernous ceilings adorned with gold filigree and chandeliers, which naturally calls for performances of virtuosity. With the opening of its production “Coppélia” last Thursday in its home theater, Boston Ballet exhibited not only virtuosity, but also an artistic flair that brought a 140-year-old ballet to life in a world very different from its 1870 premiere...
Thwarted romance, dramatic twists, and a how-to lesson in toolishness characterize the newest episode of the Ivory Tower. Forgotten what’s come to pass this year among the Kenya-visiting, insect-swapping, star-crossed lovers of the HUTV soap opera? Get caught up and get the low down on Episode 3 right here...
Besides tour groups and Cambridge street performers seeking 15 minutes of fame and interfering with filming on a fairly regular basis, the student-written and directed soap opera is “always a big gigglefest,” Gillen added...
...Love” means first coming to terms with the bizarre reality of this album: David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, and a host of guest singers narrating the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. It’s an alt-rock opera about a woman most well known for the appalling excess of her collection of 3,000 designer shoes. As if that weren’t bewildering enough, it fails to cover the most well-known events of its subject’s life; Byrne, the album’s storyteller...
...Roll Over Beethoven” also featured Kualshen Auson’s whimsical installation, “Scratching Beethoven.” Auson’s project harnessed the movement of ant colonies through a network of glass boxes to mechanically rotate a turntable playing Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio.” “The dissonant sound horrified Beethoven-lovers,” Hagebölling laughed, “but it amused the children...