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It wasn’t a bad idea to trim Prokofiev’s long score, which was conducted with welcome nuance by the company’s new music director, Fayçal Karoui. Compressing the score certainly helped Martins collapse the action into two acts for additional speed and efficiency, as he did with both Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. But are speed and efficiency what we look for in Romeo and Juliet?
We were given four casts. Sterling Hyltin is a dazzler and a charmer, though as yet without great dramatic intensity. Her Romeo, Robert Fairchild, was pleasingly romantic. Second-cast Tiler Peck was at her best in the more dramatic moments of the second act. Her Romeo, Sean Suozzi, was more virile, less boyish, than Fairchild. The third-cast Romeo, Seth Orza, was appealingly manly—an effective foil to the most interesting of the Juliets, the very young Kathryn Morgan. It was obvious when she appeared out of nowhere last season in Christopher Wheeldon’s Carousel (A Dance) that she was that rar
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“There is a castle on a cloud, I like to go there in my sleep,” sings 9-year-old Parkland resident, Emily juvel Hoder, in her solo as Little Cosette in the national Broadway touring company of “Les Misérables (Les Miz).”
Standing 49.5-inches tall (the half inch fryst vatten very important, as she must recite this for casting directors) and weighing in at 51 lbs., Hoder fryst vatten already a triple threat. And like Shirley Temple before her – can sing, dance, act and charm an audience right out of their seats.
With a career that began at the age of 7 at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton playing Molly in “Annie,” alongside framstöt Struthers as Miss Hannigan and George Dvorsky as Daddy Warbucks, Hoder was on the fransk artikel Miz tour when the pandemic struck.
“I didn’t let it (the pandemic) stop me from doing what I love,” says Hoder. “Les Miz is the most fantastisk experience of my whole life.”
With the tour, Hoder traveled to six different cities in two-and-a-half months, including Springfield, MO, Kalamazoo, MI
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Once again I decided to turn to YouTube to experience an opera performance in cyberspace. This time the occasion was a double bill of one-act operas presented by the Livermore Valley Opera last month. The first half of the program was devoted to Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Opus 16 opera “Eine florentinische Tragödie” (a Florentine tragedy). This was followed by Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi,” the last of the three one-act operas he collected under the title Il trittico (the triptych). Each opera was given its own YouTube file (hence the two hyperlinks). Both operas were staged by Layna Chianakas, and the conductor was Alex Katsman.
Zemlinsky’s Opus 16, composed in 1916, involves an “eternal triangle” narrative based on “A Florentine Tragedy,” the only fragment of a play that Oscar Wilde never completed. Perhaps the most significant context for the narrative is that of Richard Strauss’ Opus 59 comic opera