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Director Deborah Warner: The anarchic, disturbing masterpiece that made me love opera
I believe Alban Berg’s Wozzeck was one of the first operas I ever listened to all the way through, though I remember seeing Joseph Losey’s film of Don Giovanni before that. Now I’m directing it for the second time, and it thrills and disturbs me more than ever – it’s one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. It’s so immediate, compelling, anarchic – the work of an impassioned 23-year-old. I was almost the same age when I directed it at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1981 on a budget of about 50p.
Historic helium sample surfaces at Smithsonian Original
This glass tube, part of the museum’s collection, once contained a sample of helium. Its paper label reads, “HELIUM / SIR W. RAMSAY, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S. / THOMAS TRYER & CO., Ltd. / STRATFORD, LONDON, ENGLAND.” (CH.322963) Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, but also evanescent and thus hard to hold. It was discovered in 1868 as a yellow line in the spectrum of the solar corona, and named for Helios, the Greek god of the sun.
Watch LIVE: Insights into The Royal Opera's Billy Budd on 4 April 2019 — Royal Opera House
As The Royal Opera prepares to stage Britten's Billy Budd, join the cast and creative team for a livestreamed Insight session exploring the production from 7.30pm on 4 April 2019. The event will feature singer Toby Spence, director Deborah Warner, conductor Ivor Bolton and répétiteur Susanna Stranders. It will be livestreamed via the Royal Opera House YouTube channel and this page. Billy Budd runs 23 April-10 May 2019. Tickets are still available.
Religious life in our own words: A delicate balance
Thirteen sisters collaborated on 13 essays in a new collection, In Our Own Words, published Jan. 25 by Liturgical Press. "We're not reinventing religious life, but connecting with our experience of religious life," said Dubuque Franciscan Sr. Sarah Kohles, who edited the book with Society of the Sacred Heart Sr. Juliet Mousseau.
Souvenirs of science
I collect souvenirs, as do many friends and family members. Most of these souvenirs have scant monetary value, but we treasure them as tangible reminders of people, places, or events important in our lives. Rummaging through the museum collections, I found several souvenirs that suggest that some scientists were equally sentimental. This small glass dish has some gunk inside, and a handwritten note: "The mould that makes Penicillin.
Royal Opera House 2018/19 Season announced — Royal Opera House
Details of the Royal Opera House's 2018/19 Season have been announced. The Royal Opera's Season includes five new productions, classic revivals and operas that span the entire breadth of the repertory, opening with Wagner’s Ring cycle, conducted by Music Director Antonio Pappano, in a final outing for Keith Warner’s acclaimed production.
Sea-side microscopy, a favorite 19th century summer hobby
"Whoever at the seaside has not had a microscope and an aquarium has yet to learn what the highest pleasures of the seaside are." So said Herbert Spencer, an eminent British intellectual, in 1860. And he was not alone.
Explore our historic weights and balances for World Standards Day
When you pay for a pound of chocolates, how do you know if you get a pound, no more and no less? Do you rely on the goodness of the market, or do you trust the system? In recognition of World Standards Day (October 14), we call attention to some historic weights and balances in the National Museum of American History. Commercial standards were important in ancient Rome and China, highlighted in the Magna Carta, and used in many European markets.
Pork, politics, and public health
During an autopsy of an Italian barometer maker in a London hospital in January 1835, doctors found what they termed "spiculae of bone" in his muscles. James Paget, a medical student at that hospital, examined these objects with a magnifying lens and found that many were cysts with "a small worm coiled up" inside. Richard Owen, an older and wealthier scientist who could afford a powerful microscope, examined these worms and named them Trichina spiralis (later changed to Trichinella spiralis).
What emerging science got the public excited in the 1860s? Spectroscopy!
"There is no subject attracting more attention at the present time among men of science throughout the world, than the newly discovered process of spectral analysis," announced Scientific American in July 1861.
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