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'Women' aims to please both genders

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high school student when I was
eatre production forced to read it as a young Cali-
fornian male," said Swedberg,
operatic version an associate professor of music
. in the School of Music, Theatre
literary classic & Dance. "It's more about rela-
tionships and about how people
By JOE CADAGIN change ... The joke with our mar-
DailyFineArtsEditor keting people is that we should
probably have a tagline that is
isa May Alcott's beloved something like, 'Guys will like it,
"Little Women" is a work too.'"
n by a woman for women. Set in Civil War-era New Eng-
atures a land, "Little Women" revolves
y female Little Women around the lives of the four
of char- March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth
and Tomorrow and Amy - who deal with love,
es at 7:30 p.m., loss and the changes accompa-
s of Fridayand nying growing up. For readers
inity and Saturday at familiar with Alcott's novel, Ada-
nhood. 8:00 p.m., mo's opera will come as a fresh
accord- Sunday at take on an old classic. Because
director 2:00 p.m. of the novel's hefty plot, Adamo,
t Swed- who wrote the libretto himself,
the Uni- Lydia Mendelssohn had to choose carefully which
y Opera Theatre material would be included.
re's From $10 "The characters are drawn
ction from the novel, but the plot real-
rk Adamo's 1998 operatic ly focuses on a two-year period
ation of "Little Women" when the girls are a little bit
ppeal to men too. older than the age they start in
actually find it a lot more the novel," Swedberg said. "It's
sting than the novel really a wonderful construction
se there's not as much as the way the opera is put together

in that Jo is reflecting back on
how things were."
Bringing greater depth to
Adamo's libretto is his equally
accessible neo-romantic score.
"The color he gets out of the
orchestration is very bright,"
said conductor Christopher
Lees, an MT&D lecturer who
also serves as associate direc-
tor of orchestras in MT&D. "It
sounds American. There are lots
of great tunes that I think listen-
ers will leave humming."
Lees explained that the score
for "Little Women," which hap-
pens to be his first foray into
operatic conducting, is rooted in
a series of sung motifs that weave
the plot together and highlight
the central ideas of the piece.
"One of the things that
(Adamo) does is incorporate
musical equivalents of major
themes," Lees said. "So the
theme that Jo tries to hang on to
is the 'Perfect as you are' theme.
And that appears all the way
through the opera, and it's very
tuneful and very accessible. And
a slightly more jagged motive
appears throughout when they
are talking about change - the
'Things change, Jo' theme."
He added, "It's so lyrical and

so beautiful to listen, so I don't
think the musical language will
be a barrier to anyone enjoying
the story."
The conductor also touched on
the pluses of performing a work
by a contemporary composer.
"I've met (Adamo) several
times and we've been in cor-
respondence over the course of
this," Lees said. "The great thing
about doing a piece by a living
composer isthey e-mail you back.
The number of times Mozart has
not responded to my inquiries is
too numerous to count."
Lees stressed the importance
of "Little Women" as a quintes-
sential work of American opera,
but he also pointed out the
work's global appeal and general
accessibility for all audiences of
any gender.
"I would love for people com-
ing away to be moved by the
universality of the themes that
are contained in the piece - to
be able to relate to the journey
that Jo goes on where she has to
choose whether or not to accept
change or to continue pushing
back from it," Swedberg said.
"And I think we all encoun-
ter this in our lives to various
degrees."

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