So you love opera, and you think you know the heights and depths of “Là ci darem la mano” and of the finale — “the Commendatore scene” — in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”? Ha. Watch the live webcast of the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, which includes (among many things) the premiere of the mini-opera “What’s Eating […]
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Physics and the new Ig Nobel opera (and pills, and lotsa microbes)
The Harvard Physics Department is, again this year, kindly letting us use their SciBox as rehearsal space for the new Ig Nobel mini-opera. This photo, by David Kessler, shows part of the cast, at the first full rehearsal. The opera, called “What’s Eating You“, will premiere as part of the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel […]
The Homosexual Necrophiliac Duck Opera
The Ig Nobel Tour of Europe will kick off Friday, March 14th at Imperial College London. That night’s show will include the world premiere of “The Homosexual Necrophiliac Duck Opera” by composer Daniel Gillingwater. My now classic 2003 Ig Nobel Prize winning paper (with about the same title as the opera) has made some people […]
“Crapping at the Opera in London before 1830” [study]
Seventeenth century opera houses produced more than just music, a reality brought forth in this study: ‘Pots, Privies and WCs: Crapping at the Opera in London before 1830‘, Michael Burden. Cambridge Opera Journal, vol. 23, nos. 1-2, July 2011), pp 27-50. Author Michael Burden [pictured here] is Tutor in Music, Dean, Chattels and Pictures Fellow and Professor […]