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 Angel De Quinta’s blog Stage Door had a lot of broadway titles, many of which I had never heard of before and some titles which I was familiar with but as a movie and not as a broadway show - such as Sweeney Todd . Out of the broadway titles that I saw on the blog a few that I would label, in this context as my "favorites", meaning the titles I would be interested in seeing more of would be The Color Purple , Barnum , and Pippin . The biggest reason is that from the few clips and/ or the blog context that De Quinta had referring to them (from the few blogs I read De Quinta's blog seem to focus mainly on the people within the broadway show rather than talking about the show itself?) the storylines interested me and some of the song pieces I really liked. Especially with the song clips from The Color Purple , the woman from the old and newer productions all had gorgeous vocals (even if De Quinta seems to think the newer production is lacking). My interest in The Color Purp...

Ivette Torres Professor RoundTree Art and Technology February 13, 2018 Rulsaka was composed by Antonin Dvorak in the ending stages of his career, a period in which he focused more on mythical themes. The opera premiered March 31st, 1901 in Prague (Rusalka). The Opera follows the story of Rusalka, a water nymph who falls in love with a human prince. Rusalka visits a witch who gives her a potion to transform her into a human so that she may be with the prince but at the cost of her voice and should the prince betray her they will both be damned eternally. Upon seeing Rusalka the Prince falls in love with her beauty and takes her as his bride. Rusalka’s sisters cry in the distant as their sister is taken away from them. At their wedding reception, the fickle Prince becomes enamoured by a foreign princess and betrays Rusalka. Despite Rusalka’s attempts to try and win him back the Prince casts her aside and she runs off to the lake to mourn. Not wanting to be damned Rusalka soon as...

I found the stop motion animation of madame butterfly to be eerily disturbing. To further note  after having read the plot synopsis' to the original short story and the later opera, I found the animation to be greatly lacking in story context. To be fair I am fully aware of how painfully time consuming stop motion animation is. But to spend a good minute on a sex scene and not at least give more background information about the main character, Madame Butterfly, was a poor choice on the creator's part. The most tragic thing about Milton Nezvanov's stop motion re-telling of Madame Butterfly's story is how much of the actual story is missing. Within the stop motion Butterfly comes off as a naive girl who, after having a one night tryst with a sailor, waits patiently for his return. And when he does return she is all but mocked by the sailor and his new wife who, quite literally, rip her child away from her before leaving. In her despair Butterfly takes herself apart and di...