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In 1533, England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I. On Jan. 25, 1858, Britain's Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, married Crown Prince Frederick William, the future German Emperor and King of Prussia, at St. James's Palace. In 1533, England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I. In 1890, reporter Nellie Bly of the New York World completed a round-the-world journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
On November 21, 1852, Louise Clappe, a New Englander who had spent a year at a gold-rush mining camp in the Sierra Nevada, looked around in awe as she took her leave of the place. In a letter to her sister, she wrote, "Like an immense concave of pure sapphire without spot or speck, the wonderful and never-enough-to-be-talked-about sky of California drops down upon the whole its fathomless splendor."
Mark Morris, as a teen-ager, in the seventies, did his longest and most serious dance training as a member of a Balkan folk-dance troupe, the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble, a semi-pro group of Seattle hippies and music geeks who got together on weekends, went to the woods, drank slivovitz, and danced till they dropped. When you see the sheer danciness of his work-the twirling, the leaping, the falling, the floor-smacking-Koleda, in large measure, is what you're seeing.
Which music-theatre works of today will play to sold-out houses in the twenty-fifth century? Such is the challenge issued by Claudio Monteverdi, the former maestro di cappella at the Basilica di San Marco, in Venice, who, four hundred and fifty years after his birth, still has a knack for putting butts in seats. In October, the British conductor John Eliot Gardiner led vital performances of Monteverdi's three surviving operas-"Orfeo," "The Return of Ulysses," and "The Coronation of Poppea"-at Alice Tully Hall.
Metropolitan Opera audiences know the British composer Thomas Ades for "The Tempest," a svelte Shakespeare adaptation that opened here in 2012. But in his acclaimed new opera, , inspired by the scabrous film by Luis Bunuel, he returns to the territory he marked out in his first opera, "Powder Her Face": skewering the sexual and political assumptions of the upper class.
Jury selection begins Monday for a Phoenix woman charged with murder in the 2011 death of a girl who was found dead inside a padlocked storage box. State authorities are asking for the public's help in finding out who painted graffiti on rocks within a protected area on Mauna Kea mountain.
During a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Gentiloni, while praising their great culture and artistic accomplishments, President Trump said, "Through the ages your country has been a beacon of artistic and scientific achievement." Trump continued and offhandedly said, "That continues today.
She's been a Supreme Court justice for more than two decades, but if you had asked her in high school what she'd love to be, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have said a diva. She recently sat down with News4's Barbara Harrison to talk about her love of the opera and her friendship with soprano star -- and Washington native -- Denyce Graves.
This Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 photo released by the Washington National Opera shows U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, left, as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in a dress rehearsal of Donizetti's "The Daughter of the Regiment" at the Washington National Opera, in Washington. Seated next to her is Deborah Nansteel as the Marquise of Berkenfield.
Nothing in the brilliant operatic career of Gioachino Rossini became him like the leaving it. When, in 1829, "Guillaume Tell" had its premiA re, at the Paris OpA ra, the composer was thirty-seven; he had written some forty operas and attained wealth and fame.
Lily Hirsch is a musicologist and the author of several books, including "A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League" and "Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment." will begin its run at Opera Philadelphia.