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Founded in 1992 by Dunster House residents, DHO is entirely student -run and -operated, and performs one opera each year. Although open to singers of all experiences, DHO attracts strong voices from the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Owing to its popularity as a fun and profitable show, Candide will take the stage again, after a five-year absence since its last on-campus performance...
...function as a show within a show. So much of the staging is meant to be a performance within a performance: the set of a movie, or an after-party,” explains Greenhalgh. “We deal with some of the more absurd elements of the opera by saying, ‘This is a show within a show.’ For the parts that feel more real, we bring it back into reality of the theater...
Princesses become strip-teasing starlets, peasants turn into movie extras, and prostitutes are reincarnated as older, sexually active stars in the Dunster House Opera Society’s (DHO) take on Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Under the guidance of innovative first-time stage director Kate D. Greenhalgh ’06, the DHO version of Candide, which is based on Voltaire’s work by the same title, will transport the characters from their traditional setting in the medieval past to 1950s Hollywood...
Founded in 1992 by Dunster House residents, DHO is entirely student -run and -operated, and performs one opera each year. Although open to singers of all experiences, DHO attracts strong voices from the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Owing to its popularity as a fun and profitable show, Candide will take the stage again, after a five-year absence since its last on-campus performance...
...function as a show within a show. So much of the staging is meant to be a performance within a performance: the set of a movie, or an after-party,” explains Greenhalgh. “We deal with some of the more absurd elements of the opera by saying, ‘This is a show within a show.’ For the parts that feel more real, we bring it back into reality of the theater...