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Tag Archives: Opera
1997: Translation / Transformation
In a 1997 essay on translation, the writer Harry Mathews cites Marcel Benabou’s version of Keats’s “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”: Ah, singe débotté, / Hisse un jouet fort et vert! It’s not quite a translation: the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Austria, France, Gabriel von Max, Harry Mathews, John Keats, Language, Mammals, Marcel Benabou, Monkeys, Opera, OULIPO, Painting, Poetry, Translation, USA
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1935: Fixing her Hair
Serge Sudeikin: Fixing her Hair (Ruby Elzy in “Porgy and Bess,” 1935) (1935) (listen)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Music, Opera, Painting, Portraits, Ruby Elzy, Russia, Serge Sudeikin, Theater, USA, Women
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1784: First Woman to Fly
On June 4, 1784, at the age of 19, a French opera singer named Élisabeth Thible became the first woman aeronaut in history by ascending in a hot air balloon in Lyon. A painter named M. Fleuranthad had been scheduled … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Aviation, Élisabeth Thible, Balloons, Flight, France, Montgolfier Brothers, Opera, Printmaking, Women
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1737: Anti-Depressant
It has been often related, and generally believed, that Philip V King of Spain, being seized with a total dejection of spirits, which made him refuse to be shaved, and rendered him incapable of attending council or transacting affairs … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Corrado Giaquinto, Farinelli, Italy, Jean Ranc, King Philip V of Spain, Melancholy, Mental Health, Music, Opera, Painting, Spain
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