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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Opera more than just music
ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com
When Kristee Haney, a doctoral candidate in musical arts at the University, was in high school, she began making fun of an opera singer while practicing with her voice teacher one day. Her teacher was impressed by what she heard and told Haney to do it again.
Having previously been involved in just musical theater, Haney veered down the path of singing classical music.
"It's all the good stuff of musical theater: It's the most musical, and it's the most dramatic stories and it's the most glamorous costumes. It's all of the above in one," said Haney, who will give her final performance in the University's Opera programs double-bill of Leonard Bernstein's "Arias and Barcarolles" and "Trouble in Tahiti" tonight at 7:30 pm in the Robert Baunatian Theater.
Opera presents a hard challenge to market to younger generations, especially since, unlike their parents, the millennial generation didn't grow up with opera music in the background of their cartoons.
But as the culture has evolved, the process of how an opera is performed has changed as well.
"In the old days, singers could just walk out on stage, hurl and then cough," said Dean Anthony, the director of the show. "And that's not the way it is anymore. Audiences are much more media oriented and visually oriented than they were back 30 years
were back 50 years ago."
By bringing in Anthony as a guest director, the University Opera program added someone who emphasizes the theatrical part of opera,
Instead, the actors focus on how they sing the words and the actions they use to accompany the song to reach the audience.
"The audience, they don't need to know what you're singing. They need to feel what you are singing."
"The audience, they don't need to know what you're singing, they need to feel what you're singing."
DOMINIC JOHNSON Master's student in Opera program
as Anthony spent his time performing as a character actor, where his actions were just as important as his words.
"A lot of times in opera, people do these stock, very melodramatic gestures that don't make sense, and he's all about cutting that, figure out what you're trying to do, what you're trying to say and just do it," said Stephen Dagrosa, a masters student who performs in "Arias and Barcarolles."
With operas frequently written in other languages, it can be a challenge to present their messages to a younger audience who is not familiar with the language.
said Dominic Johnson, a master's student who is performing in "Trouble in Tahiti."
"Just because it's in another language doesn't mean you can't
still appreciate the beauty in it." Haney said.
By holding the performance in the intimate setting of the Baustian theater, formerly known as the Black Box Theater, it gives the actors an opportunity to reach the audience on a more personal level.
In the close quarters, actors are thrust to the forefront, and they can't hide in the back.
Mark Ferrell, the Director of the University's Opera program, hopes the smaller setting is less intimidating for students to come and watch their peers perform.
"What this gives us the opportunity to do, in this intimate setting,
is really challenge the actors to get their acting chops in line," Anthony said. "Because what you see in this black box theater is that we see every tweak, every twinge because you're sitting right on top of the performers."
But one of the biggest draws that the cast of the show hopes will draw students to the show is the opportunity to see the event live and in person, where not even the actors can be 100 percent certain what will happen next.
"In this age where everything is on the Internet, everything is on demand, it's really interesting to come and see something that you're experiencing now, with the person on stage." Haney said.
"You can't take away the minute before," Anthony said. "You can only prepare for the minute after."
DANCING QUEEN
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Juliet Remmers performs a number around a "sleeping" Cole Ananta for the University Dance Company's fall concert at the Lied Center.
BOISE, Idaho — A break-in at Zoo Boise early Saturday left a Patas monkey dead from blunt force trauma to the head and neck and police were analyzing blood found at the scene to determine if it came from the monkey or one of two human intruders.
Two males wearing dark clothing were spotted by a security guard at 4:30 a.m. outside the fence near the primate exhibit, police said. Both fled, one of them heading into the interior of the zoo. Boise police used a thermal imager in searching the 11-acre zoo grounds but didn't find the person.
Idaho zoo break-in leaves monkey dead
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grey baseball cap with a distinctive skull design found near the site was probably left behind by one of the intruders and it might help in tracking them down.
Police said late Saturday that a
"I've been here for 15 years and
The zoo's veterinarian was called, but the monkey died just before 6 a.m. as it was being examined. A necropsy later determined that blunt force trauma was the cause of death, police said.
An inventory done by zoo staff found no other animals missing or injured. The zoo has one remaining Patas monkey — another male — but it's unclear if it will remain at the zoo or will be sent to another zoo where it can socialize with other Patas monkeys. Burns said.
fore dawn, Burns heard a groan that at first he thought sounded human. It turned out to be an injured Patas monkey barely moving near the perimeter fence.
"They're not endangered in the
"They're hit hard. They care for the animals on a daily basis and they care about them deeply."
we haven't had anything like this happen," Zoo Boise Director Steve Burns said. "It's unfortunate that we have to let kids know that something like this happens. Monkeyes are always among the most favorite animals here."
AMY STAHL Boise Parks & Recreation on zoo workers
Patas monkeys, often called the military monkey, have reddish-brown fur with grey chin whiskers and distinctive white moustaches. They are widely distributed across central Africa south of the Sahara Desert and can live more than 20 years in captivity.
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During a search of the zoo be
wild, but there are not many in zoos in the United States," he said. "Monkeys are social animals. We only have one."
The two Patas monkeys
Burns said the monkeys hadn't been given names, and he didn't know their ages. The monkey that was killed was about 2 $ \frac{1}{2} $ feet tall and weighed about 30 pounds, Burns said.
Burns declined to discuss details of the police investigation, includ-
came to Zoo Boise about three years ago from Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo in Florida. They had an outdoor enclosure during the summer in Boise but were moved indoors to the primate building when colder weather arrived.
A Patas monkey looks out of his cage at Zoo Boise after his cage mate was severely injured and died in Boise, Idaho on Saturday.
ing how the intruder entered the primate building, if the monkeys might have been specifically targeted, or how the monkey ended up near the perimeter fence. The zoo doesn't have surveillance cameras, he said.
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"It's very disturbing that someone would intentionally break into the zoo and harm an animal," said Sgt. Ted Snyder of the Boise Police Department in a statement. "We're doing all we can to find who did this."
Amy Stahl of Boise Parks & Recreation said the death shocked zoo workers.
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"They're hit hard," Stahl said. "They care for the animals on a daily basis and they care about them deeply."
The zoo was supposed to open at 10 a.m. but remained closed while police gathered evidence, opening about 2:30 p.m.
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