The Ohio Light Opera at the College of Wooster's commitment to quality revivals of operetta has propelled it through nearly 30 seasons of productions and slightly more than that number in recordings. A theater orchestra is a slightly different animal than a regular symphony orchestra, being smaller and having a very different tonal balance owing to the smaller number of strings, more prominent winds, and percussion. The pit orchestra at Ohio Light Opera is one of the best of its kind, albeit among a rather small number of ...
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The Ohio Light Opera at the College of Wooster's commitment to quality revivals of operetta has propelled it through nearly 30 seasons of productions and slightly more than that number in recordings. A theater orchestra is a slightly different animal than a regular symphony orchestra, being smaller and having a very different tonal balance owing to the smaller number of strings, more prominent winds, and percussion. The pit orchestra at Ohio Light Opera is one of the best of its kind, albeit among a rather small number of active ensembles of its type; nevertheless, Albany Records' The Ohio Light Opera Orchestra: Overtures and Entr'actes is a great idea, combining some of the stronger orchestral performances of revivals held between 2001-2006 into a single disc.Three leaders -- Steven Byess, J. Lynn Thompson, and Jason Altieri -- are heard in overtures and juicy orchestral chunks drawn from Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Naughty Marietta, Offenbach's The Brigands, and works of Arthur Sullivan, Rudolf...
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