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New York Times
6 days ago
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- New York Times
An Opera House's New Era Begins With an Unlikely First: Strauss
Richard Strauss's opera 'Die Schweigsame Frau,' or 'The Silent Woman,' was already a relic from a disappearing world by the time it was first performed. In this rarely seen work from 1935, an old man longs for company but is enraged by bustle and noise. When a beloved nephew reveals that he has taken up with a troupe of performers, the man, Sir Morosus, disinherits him and vows to marry. The nephew, Henry, responds with an elaborate prank, tricking Morosus into a fake wedding. The ostensible lesson: There is no such thing as a quiet wife. Despite feminist progress at the time, the opera reprised stereotypes about women as nags; in a period of musical experimentation, it worked largely within traditional idioms. And it made withdrawal seem noble when engagement was urgent. A year before the opera opened, its librettist, the eminent Jewish author Stefan Zweig, fled his home in Austria for London. After the premiere, it was quickly banned by the Nazi Party; Strauss was forced out of his post as president of the Reich Music Chamber even though he wrote an ingratiating letter to Hitler. 'Perhaps it sparkles too much with soul and wit for today's world,' Strauss wrote about the opera in a letter. 'But there is still the 21st century!' Indeed. On Saturday, a new production of 'Die Schweigsame Frau' will open at the Berlin State Opera. The event will be a first three times over: the first performance of the piece at the house, where Strauss worked regularly for 20 years and led over a thousand performances; the first new production overseen by Christian Thielemann as the company's general music director; and Thielemann's first time leading the opera after conducting most of Strauss's other stage works. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Boston Globe
14-07-2025
- Boston Globe
Today in History: the storming of the Bastille
In 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners held there. Advertisement In 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government. Advertisement In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias 'Billy the Kid,' was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in present-day New Mexico. In 1912, American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Okla. In 1921, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham Superior Court of murdering a shoe company paymaster and his guard during a robbery in South Braintree. (Despite intervention and pleas from famed jurist Felix Frankfurter, Albert Einstein, and Jane Addams and widespread protests, the pair were executed six years later.) In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were outlawed by the government of Nazi Germany. In 1945, Italy formally declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II. In 1959, the nation's first nuclear-powered cruiser, the Long Beach, was launched from Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. In 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of the wild chimpanzees living there. In 1999, the Boston School Committee voted to drop race as a factor in determining which school a child attends, effectively ending the city's busing program 25 years after its violent inception. In 2004, the Senate scuttled a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. (Forty-eight senators voted to advance the measure — 12 short of the 60 needed — and 50 voted to block it.) In 2009, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina to begin serving a 150-year sentence for his massive Ponzi scheme. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.) Advertisement In 2013, thousands of demonstrators across the country protested a Florida jury's decision one day earlier to clear George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. In 2015, world powers and Iran struck a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions. In 2016, terror struck Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice as a large truck plowed into a festive crowd, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State extremists; the driver was shot dead by police. In 2020, researchers reported that the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the US boosted people's immune systems as scientists had hoped; the vaccine was developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. of Cambridge. In 2022, the National Galleries of Scotland said a previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh was discovered behind another of the artist's paintings when experts took an X-ray of the canvas ahead of an upcoming exhibition. Also in 2022, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu named Brian Cox the city's new police commissioner. Cox had a distinguished career but was until then known best as the victim of a police beating when he worked as an undercover detective in Boston.
Chicago Tribune
14-07-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: ‘Billy the Kid' killed
Today is Monday, July 14, the 195th day of 2024. There are 170 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 14, 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias 'Billy the Kid,' was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in present-day New Mexico. Also on this date: In 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners held there. In 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government. In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias 'Billy the Kid,' was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in present-day New Mexico. In 1912, American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were outlawed by the government of Nazi Germany. In 1945, Italy formally declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II. In 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall first arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of the wild chimpanzees living there. In 2004, the Senate scuttled a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. (Forty-eight senators voted to advance the measure — 12 short of the 60 needed — and 50 voted to block it.) In 2009, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina to begin serving a 150-year sentence for his massive Ponzi scheme. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.) In 2013, thousands of demonstrators across the country protested a Florida jury's decision one day earlier to clear George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. In 2015, world powers and Iran struck a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions. In 2016, terror struck Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice as a large truck plowed into a festive crowd, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State extremists; the driver was shot dead by police. In 2020, researchers reported that the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. boosted people's immune systems as scientists had hoped; the vaccine was developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. In 2022, the National Galleries of Scotland said a previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh was discovered behind another of the artist's paintings when experts took an X-ray of the canvas ahead of an upcoming exhibition. Today's Birthdays: Former football player and actor Rosey Grier is 93. Actor Vincent Pastore (TV' 'The Sopranos') is 79. Music company executive Tommy Mottola is 77. Movie producer Scott Rudin is 67. Singer-songwriter Anjelique Kidjo is 65. Singer-guitarist Kyle Gass (Tenacious D) is 65. Actor Jane Lynch is 65. Actor Jackie Earle Haley is 64. Actor Matthew Fox is 59. Rock singer-musician Tanya Donelly is 59. Olympic gold medal snowboarder Ross Rebagliati is 54. Country singer Jamey Johnson is 50. Hip-hop musician Taboo (Black Eyed Peas) is 50. Actor/writer/producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge is 39. Rock singer Dan Reynolds (Imagine Dragons) is 38. MMA fighter Conor McGregor is 37.
Times
12-07-2025
- Times
Boy planned terrorist attack on mosque inspired by Anders Breivik
A teenager who idolised the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has admitted planning to carry out a massacre at a Scottish mosque. The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had posted on TikTok about white people being at 'war' with other races and how he had 'developed sympathies' with the Nazi party. He also listed a number of 'inspirations' such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Breivik, the neo-Nazi who murdered 77 people in Norway in 2011. An investigation by police intelligence led to officers finding the boy armed with weapons, including an air gun, outside the Inverclyde Muslim Centre. He claimed that the gun would keep worshippers inside once he had set the building on fire. The boy planned his attack after he convinced the centre's imam that he wanted to covert to Islam. He was at times left alone in the building, which allowed him to make sketches and videos of the layout.
Otago Daily Times
06-07-2025
- Otago Daily Times
New Zealander inside synagogue during attack fears escalation in 'violence'
A New Zealander inside a Melbourne synagogue subject to an alleged arson attack on Friday says it is a worrying escalation from "hate speech into violence". Flammable liquid was poured over a door and set alight on Friday. About 20 people were in the East Melbourne Synagogue at the time of the attack. Counter terrorism police have arrested a 34-year-old man. Also in Melbourne, on the same night, about 20 masked protesters harassed diners at an Israeli-owned restaurant. Three cars were also set on fire outside a Melbourne business. One of those inside the Melbourne synagogue on Friday evening was New Zealander Murray Meltzer. He said it was a "very tranquil" service before the attack. "Congregants meet there every week on a Friday around sunset for the Shabbat services, and, regularly a handful of us meet for dinner afterwards - that's what was happening on Friday night." Shortly before 8pm, soon after dinner began, the synagogue's bell began ringing "repeatedly, which is unusual". "One of the children, around age 13, was playing at the front of the building," Meltzer said. They glanced at the CCTV monitor - which Meltzer called an "unfortunate sign of the times [with] concern about rising anti-Semitism" - and ran towards the back. "By then there was smoke starting to creep under the front entrance and find its way into the central synagogue sanctuary area, and as a result of that, we obviously ran to the front initially to try and put out the fire. Everyone else was at the back of the building. "And by then we had a couple of passers-by that had spotted the flames developing at the front of the building called the fire brigade, which is located fairly close by, so fortunately, the fire brigade was there very quickly, thank goodness." The gravity of what had happened - not just at the synagogue, but elsewhere - "hit home the next day" when people showed up for the Saturday morning service and there was a "large press crowd there". There has been a rise in the number of anti-Jewish and Islamophobic incidents in Australia since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war in 2023. In December last year, another synagogue in Melbourne was set alight. Australia in early 2024 banned Nazi salutes and the public display of symbols associated with designated terror groups like Islamic State and Hamas. Last week it cancelled American rapper Kanye West's visa after he released a song 'Heil Hitler', praising the genocidal Nazi Party leader. A synagogue in Sydney earlier this year was graffitied with swastikas, while in December anti-Islamic graffiti appeared in the city's west. Meltzer said whoever lit the latest fire in Melbourne would have known there were people inside as all the lights were on. "It's shifted the sort of activity we've seen in recent times from, from just a bit of hate speech and people's right to protest and stand up and say what their views are - just sort of, kind of shifted it quite dramatically. It's been left to fester and develop and I guess the speech has moved from just a bit of hate speech into violence. "And that's a real, that's a real, that's a real concern for us as a community." 'Attack on Australia' Meltzer praised politicians from both sides of the Australian political divide for condemning the incidents. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said he viewed the incidents with "utmost gravity", and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said they "have no place in our country". "Australians have every right to be able to conduct their faith, to engage with each other in peace and harmony. That is the Australia that we cherish." Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, speaking from the scene on Sunday, called it an "attack on Australia". "There's been some reporting that no one was physically injured - that doesn't mean no one was harmed. The community here was harmed. The Jewish community in Australia was harmed, and we were harmed as a nation."
