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...consists of a Prologue and an Opera, the first framing the second. In the Prologue, a prodigiously young Composer (mezzo-soprano Edyta Kulczak) is about to see his first opera, the very serious “Ariadne auf Naxos,” performed at the court of a Viennese nobleman. However, at the nobleman’s behest, the order is given for the new opera to be combined with a troop of harlequins also slated to perform that evening. The second act, the Opera proper, presents the resulting blend...
...second act consists of the opera proper, the Composer’s “Ariadne auf Naxos.” The audience in the opera house implicitly becomes the audience in the house of the nobleman. The popular/classical concept of the Prologue seems to get dropped in the Opera; the harlequins stop being band members and become, somewhat disappointingly, actual harlequins (although one does wear sunglasses). The Opera itself could be substituted in any other production of “Ariadne auf Naxos” without much loss of continuity...
...other change was Alice's age. In the book she is "seven-and-a-half, exactly"; here she's 19 and meant to wed a pruny nobleman. It's not a crime for a film to turn a girl into a young lady: Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz was 16, about twice the age of the book's Dorothy. And upping Alice's age removes the whisper of pedophilia that the 20th century applied to the love that Charles Dodgson, the Oxford math professor who was the real Lewis Carroll, lavished on the real Alice Liddell...
...depict ailments during the Renaissance. Among his conclusions: the Spanish child Margarita, in Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas, likely suffered from both a thyroid condition known as goiter and the genetic disorder linked to premature puberty, McCune-Albright syndrome. The unusually long, thin fingers of the young nobleman in Sandro Botticelli's Portrait of a Young Man, which is displayed at the National Gallery in Washington, indicates that the subject suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue. The professor even performed a checkup on the master of the masters, Michelangelo, who is depicted...
...Sorcerer,” an early collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan, tells the story of an idealistic young nobleman, Alexis Pointdextre (a role shared by Benjamin J. Nelson ’11 and Zander J. MacQuitty ’10), who decides, on the eve of his wedding to Aline (Marit A. Medefind ’12), that he wants all the citizens of his village to share in the bliss of love. Hoping to realize this plan, he hires a professional wizard (Nathaniel Koven) to brew a love potion for all to drink. Hilarious chaos ensues. As a range...