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...students on the Harvard opera scene today came to Harvard whistling Wagner. Charles I. Miller ’08 had high school experience mostly as a piano player, actor, and musical-theater singer before landing the job of co-director for Princess...
Miller noticed the significant opera presence on campus soon after coming here in the fall. “I’ve learned what an incredibly large community it is,” he says. “It’s amazing the number of students who are into opera and classical music at Harvard...
Kathryn D. Greenhalgh ’05, who also says that she “wasn’t particularly involved in opera at all before Harvard,” has been involved with DHO since she was a freshman, and directed Candide this year...
Despite opera’s growing visibility on campus, however, Greenhalgh says that producing a college opera poses numerous challenges. For one, procuring the often hefty funds, she says, can be difficult...
According to Megan, in the past year the OFA has granted opera societies about $2,500 of the $30,000 it gives annually to Harvard arts programs. But he adds that “the singular most important contribution we make is asking the tech staff to help them put up productions in the dining halls...