Opera: Alexander's Feast
by Handel
Light Design
photos: MKusunoki, Ryosuke Takashima
Harvard University Horner Room
December 2015
Directed by Steven Kunis
Music Directed by Sam Wu & Sean Rodan
Produced by Harvard Early Music Society
Fashion Line by Saad Amer Design
In the year 2015, Alexander Great, an American billionaire, has captured the Persian City of Persepolis, and in celebration throws a banquet for his lover Thais featuring an haute couture fashion show. Timotheus, the ruler's favorite musician, entertains. The music arouses various moods in the ruler: from overwhelming pride, to drunken zeal, to sorrowful remembrance over the death of his soldiers. Finally, overcome with vengeance, he seizes torches and sets Persepolis ablaze in revenge for the capture and sacking of various places important to him. Legend has it that it was not the music alone that incited the king to avenge his countrymen, but that his own lover Thais also played a part.
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December 2015
Directed by Steven Kunis
Music Directed by Sam Wu & Sean Rodan
Produced by Harvard Early Music Society
Fashion Line by Saad Amer Design
In the year 2015, Alexander Great, an American billionaire, has captured the Persian City of Persepolis, and in celebration throws a banquet for his lover Thais featuring an haute couture fashion show. Timotheus, the ruler's favorite musician, entertains. The music arouses various moods in the ruler: from overwhelming pride, to drunken zeal, to sorrowful remembrance over the death of his soldiers. Finally, overcome with vengeance, he seizes torches and sets Persepolis ablaze in revenge for the capture and sacking of various places important to him. Legend has it that it was not the music alone that incited the king to avenge his countrymen, but that his own lover Thais also played a part.
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