Word: amadeus
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...this weren't enough, Tolins will portray Salieri in a December production of Amadeus. This is a sort of dream role for him, as he already used it in high school to garner top honors from the National Catholic Forensics League. Salieri is another in a long series of bizarre character roles--from Voltaire in Candide to Sultan Battery in last year's Pudding extravaganza--that Tolins has exploited throughout his Harvard acting career...
...Amadeus Sun. at noon...
...high point of the festival was the only U.S. engagement this year for the National Theater subcompany, led by Edward Petherbridge, twice a Tony nominee for roles in Nicholas Nickleby and Strange Interlude, and Ian McKellen, a Tony winner for his portrayal of the jealous composer Salieri in Amadeus. Each production in Chicago has showcased the two principals and three comparably talented colleagues, Greg Hicks, Eleanor Bron and Jonathan Hyde. The stand opened with The Duchess of Malfi in a faithfully Grand Guignol rendition of Webster's Jacobean tragedy. Actors clad in funereal black moved menacingly amid the stately...
FOLLOWING THE inauspicious debut of wunderkind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1791, the music critic of the Berlin Musikalisches Wochenblatt remarked that the opera had "not won the much hoped for and expected acclaim, on account of its inferior text and subject matter." Even so, the magical spectacle and symbolism that makes up what is perhaps Mozart's most popular opera continues to win the hearts of many music-lovers and theater-goers alike. That is, when the opera is performed well, which is definitely not the case at the Lowell House Opera's current rendition...