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THEATER
KU Opera performs'La Traviata'
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awlebe@kansan.com
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Tausha Torrez, playing Violette, and Lane Johnson, playing Germen, sing together in the opera "La Traviata" at Murphy Hall. The production opened on Wednesday and continues until Feb. 2.
Four months of planning and rehearsals culminated Thursday night when KU Opera's presentation of "La Traviata" opened at the Robert Baustian Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The opera, which is an adaptation of Alexander Dumas' novel and stage play "Camille," is a love story centered around a young Parisian woman named Violetta. Andrea Garritano, New York City graduate student and one of two sobranos who plays Violetta on alternating nights, said the tragic story was one even modern audiences found emotionally powerful.
"It's an extremely heart wrenching story, but it's based on something that everyone on Earth can relate to — relationships, love, life and death," Garrano said.
Charles Martinez, a Wichita graduate student and tenor who plays Violette laver, Alfredo, said
the entire cast had been looking forward to the opportunity to put their hard work on display since auditions began in September.
"It's really easy in rehearsals and when you are doing stuff over and
sets were produced professionally as well.
"We prep them as if this were a professional performance," Ocel said. "I ask them to act, to be and commit to scene work the way I would ask professional opera singers to do that."
"If anybody is looking for a new experience or trying something that they've never done before, this presents a great opportunity."
ANDREA GARRITANO Violetta in "La Traviata"
over again for the energy to kind of fall," Martinez said. "But once you put the audience there, it brings a whole new energy into the atmosphere."
"La Traviata"
was among the top 10 most frequently performed operas in North America in 2007 according to Opera America. Garritano said it was rare for students to have
Tim Ocel, associate professor of opera and the show's director, said the performance was designed to be as professional as possible. Ocel is a professional opera director, costumes were rented from an opera costume house in Baltimore and
the opportunity to participate in a professional-style performance that was as complex and well respected as "La Traviata."
"This particular opera, the role I have is kind of known as one of the warhorse roles for a soprano to be singing," she said. "It's really an amazing opportunity for me to sing it, to learn it, to rehearse it and to perform it."
The production is performed
entirely in Italian with subtitles projected in English to allow the audience to follow the plot.
In addition to a dedicated group of Lawrence opera aficionados, Ocel said faculty and students helped provide the overwhelming support the program has enjoyed.
"There are a lot of opera devotees out there who are kind of rabid about opera," he said.
Although opera isn't considered a traditional college activity, Garritano said many first-time opera-goers enjoyed the experience far more than they anticipated because it unified theater and music.
"It's not a typical thing," she said.
"If anybody is looking for a new experience or trying something that they've never done before, this presents a great opportunity."
In addition to Thursday's opening performance, KU Opera also will present "La Traviata" on Jan. 26, 29 and 31 and on Feb. 2 in Murphy Hall. Tickets cost $7 for students and $15 for adults and are available at the Lied Center and Murphy Hall box offices.
- Edited by Jared Duncan
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Recreation center renamed after former vice chancellor
The Student Recreation Fitness Center will be named after David Ambler, former vice chancellor for student affairs. Ambler worked to improve building of the center before retiring in 2002.
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
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David Ambler hates walking on treadmills. He also hates imposing gymnastium walls. And most of all, he hates how the walls stare at him as he fights that mindless machine.
Ambler would rather exercise outdoors, where he can walk away from the problems of his life. It's a place where his mind is clear. So, when Chancellor Robert Hemenway told Ambler at a holiday reception in December that the Student Recreation Fitness Center would be named in his honor, Ambler was shocked.
"I remember when he called me to tell me that it failed," Chappell
"I was speechless," Ambler said. "Frankly, I said to someone later, 'I almost fell in the punch bowl!'"
Although Amber is not personally fond of exercising indoors, when he was vice chancellor for student affairs, Amber was committed to providing a building for students to exercise in.
The proposed center would have been located near 23rd Street on West Campus, where the soccer fields are located. When the referendum failed because of its inconvenient location, Mary Chappell, former director of recreational services and current director of the recreation center, said Ambler didn't give up on the center's creation.
"I think a recreation center can really impact the climate of a campus." Ambler said. "You give students alternatives to going downtown and drinking. Our University needs to help students develop good lifesystems."
The idea of building a center at the University that would be used only for recreation was first discussed at a University Governance meeting in 1995. Because Robinson Center is also used for academics, it can only be used for recreation between 5:30 p.m. and midnight. The University wanted to provide students with a place where they could exercise during the day as well.
In 1996 the University presented a referendum to students that used student fees to build a recreation center.
said. "He just said, 'The sun's going to shine tomorrow.' He always had a plan to move forward."
The sun Ambler spoke of came in the form of Kevin Yoder, who was elected Student Senate president in 1998. Ambler said that the day after Yoder was elected, he came to Ambler and told him he would make sure there were concrete plans to build a student recreation center before he left office.
When the creation of the recreation center finally became a reality, Ambler chaired the planning committee. Construction began in 2000 and was completed in 2003. Ambler retired in the spring of 2003 — only a few months before the recreation center opened.
"I tried to slow Kevin down a bit," Amber said, "I was worried about trying to pass it so soon after the first vote, but he was very single-minded. To his credit, the proposal passed."
Ambler said Yoder's proposal passed because it called for the creation of a smaller recreation center but left room for future expansion.
Chappell said plans were in the works to name the recreation center after Ambler since 2002. She said she and other student leaders thought it was only fitting to name the center after the man who made its creation a reality.
Ambler also said Yoder designed the student recreation fee so that future students, the students who used the center, paid for it.
Chappell said she hoped to have the center named after Ambler when it opened, but when she first presented the idea to the Board of Regents, it was rejected.
She said she was told a building could only be named after a faculty member after they were retired for at least five years. This spring, after the expansion of the recreation center is completed, Ambler will reach this mark.
Ambler said it was still hard for him to accept that the recreation center will be named after him. He said the center should be named after Kevin Yoder because Yoder convinced students to approve the proposal.
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Yoder, who is now a state representative, said it should instead be named after his mentor, Ambler. He said the recreation center is symbolic of Ambler's achievements at the University.
"I think David Ambler was the inspiration for this idea and 100 other ideas at KU," Yoder said. "His legacy of leadership facilitated the actions of students like myself in academic projects like the recreation center."
The recreation center's name will be changed to the David A. Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center when the expansion is finished. The construction is expected to be finished this summer.
—Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
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