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The Adventures of Arthur the Arthropleura
11 November 2014
,In June this year the Natural Sciences Department received a rather special donation from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; a life size model of a giant millipede, Arthropleura, that would have lived in the Carboniferous Period, 300 million years ago. Arthropleura is the largest invertebrate (creepy-crawly) ever known to have lived on land, reaching up to 2.6 metres in length, but despite its monstrous proportions it is thought to have been a harmless herbivore.
The model was originally on display in Kew Garden's Evolution House but when the space was dismantled in preparation for the HLF funded restoration of the Temperate House, it was no longer needed. So it was donated to Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, thanks to the generosity of Chris Mills, David Cook and Jonathan Farley at Kew.
The Arthropleura model was in need of some substantial conservation work when it arrived at AC-NMC. It had been on open display for many years in a glass house alongside living plants and was damaged and rusty. The humid display environment had caused the surface paint to flake away and several spiders and snails had taken up residence on the underside of the model!
The first job was to give the model a good wash with hot soapy water and remove the dirt and cobwebs! Then all the flaking paint was scrubbed off, the damaged areas on the legs and head were rebuilt with an epoxy putty and the surface textures recreated. The nuts and bolts of the removable antennae had rusted together, so the metal parts were replaced with new stainless steel threaded rods.
Once the repairs were complete the model was carefully painted with acrylics and then coated in a durable varnish, making it once again suitable for public display.
Some of the Natural Science staff had become rather attached to the impressive 1.5m long millipede model whilst it underwent conservation work in the lab and named it Arthur the Arthropleura! We also decided to have a bit of Halloween fun with Arthur… so he "escaped" and went on the run around the museum galleries! We posted pictures of his adventures on the @CardiffCurator Natural Sciences Twitter account and had a fantastic response from our followers. Arthur the Arthropleura is now a social media star and is a really wonderful addition to our collections!
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5 November 2014
,'From ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night…'
Last Friday, Natural Sciences staff celebrated Halloween in grand style with a host of truly ghoulish and grizzly specimens out in the main hall at National Museum Cardiff. The National Herbarium was transformed into a ghoul filled graveyard, and a large mosquito model leered down from the entomology (insects) stand, any moment threatening to jump on the jugular of an unsuspecting member of the public. Younger visitors to the OPAL stand were encouraged to stealthily walk through a spider's web without disturbing its occupant, and learn about glow in the dark scorpions. Meanwhile the biggest creepy crawly that ever lived, Arthropleura, a 300 million year old extinct giant millipede, escaped from the Palaeontology (fossil) stand and went off to explore the Impressionist galleries.
Despite all of the fun, visitors gained an insight about some of the 6 million specimens that are held behind the scenes at the museum, and the incredible work of the staff that care for them. From bats to giant squid, volcanic rocks to fungi, we covered them all. One of my favourite parts of the day was taking visitors behind the scenes on tours of the Entomology and Molluscan sections to see insects and shells and the Spirit store (not ghosts, but where we keep our specimens preserved in fluid such as sea worms and crabs). It is such a rewarding experience to see the excitement of people visiting the collections for the first time, and proudly talking about all of the great research work that we do.
If you missed it, don't worry! We have a whole host of open days and curator led sessions coming up. See our What's Onto find out more!
Museum scientists pop up at Fairwater Library
4 November 2014
,Museum scientists were out and about during half-term week, when the I Spy…Nature pop-up museum paid a visit to Fairwater Library on 30th October. Curators from the Botany, Invertebrate Diversity and Palaeontology sections took along specimens from their collection areas to show the public, along with a microscope and quizzes to encourage them to look even closer.
Ingrid Jüttner challenged people to identify as many trees as they could, using beautiful displays of freshly-pressed leaves and fruits. This activity was a big hit with grown-ups, and it was very pleasing to see so many parents and grandparents encouraging children to learn more about these important plants, which bring our living spaces to life.
The library's meeting room became temporary home to an impressive array of marine and mollusc specimens from the Invertebrate Diversity section. People were fascinated by the creatures on display, which evoked a range of reactions (including 'they're really gross!') depending on how they felt about slugs and worms! Teresa Darbyshire showed some of the diversity of life found around our shores, with beautiful sea shells, lobster, starfish, and a pickled octopus and giant sea worm. Visitors tried their hands at identifying shells using a key, all good training for trips to the beach! Ben Rowson challenged people to identify mystery objects under the microscope, and introduced them to slug identification using his recently published book and life-like models.
Lucy McCobb showed visitors a range of fossils from different periods of the Earth's history, ranging from an Ice Age mastodon tooth and horse's leg bone, through Jurassic ammonites and ichthyosaur bones, to trilobites, which are among Wales's oldest fossils. The 'what's in a name?' quiz was popular with children, and asked them to use the meanings of scientific names to match up the name with the correct fossil.
This was I Spy..Nature's first venture into libraries, and showed that they have great potential as venues for taking the Museum's collections and experts out into communities.
Unknown Wales 2014
23 October 2014
,Unknown Wales is a free annual public event organised by Amgueddfa Cymru's Department of Natural Sciences in collaboration with the Wildlife Trust for South and West Wales, to highlight the natural history treasures found in Wales. It allows the museum to tell a wide general audience about the collaborative efforts that we are a party to, fighting to protect the wildlife and its habitats across the country.
This year's meeting, held on the 11th October in the Reardon Smith Theatre at National Museum Cardiff, had an audience of nearly 250 people. They heard talks about bank voles, diatoms (by the museum's Ingrid Jüttner), sand lizards, dung beetles, fossil forests and rare fish. The meeting was rounded off by Stephen Moss of the BBC Natural History Unit, talking about conservation activities in Wales, such as the success story of the recovery of the red kite.
As in previous years, the event has been sponsored by one of our very generous Patrons.
Biology Rocks! at National Museum Cardiff
20 October 2014
,Biology rocked at National Museum Cardiff on Saturday 11th October, when over 3000 visitors joined scientists from Amgueddfa Cymru, Cardiff University and the Society of Biology to celebrate National Biology Week and Earth Science Week.
Visitors got the opportunity to see some of the specimens from our collections that aren't usually on display and to talk to Museum experts about their work. Specimens from the Marine and Mollusca collections provided inspiration for a mural depicting life in the seas around Wales, which became more colourful and populated throughout the day!
As part of the Geological Society's '100 Great Geosites' campaign, Museum geologists displayed rocks, fossils and minerals from our collections, as well as stunning images of some of the most beautiful and iconic landscapes in Wales. Members of the public were invited to vote for their favourite site in Wales, with the dinosaur footprints from Bendricks Rocks, near Barry, emerging as the clear favourite on the day.
To mark the recent arrival of two hives on our roof, staff from the Entomology and Botany Sections gave visitors the opportunity to take a closer look at bee specimens from our collections and to experience a 'bee's eye view' of the world by playing a pollination game, collecting 'pollen' and 'nectar' from various flowers.
Scientists from Cardiff University's School of Biosciences and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences put on a variety of displays and activities throughout the Museum. Among the many activities on offer, visitors could try their hand at organ transplant using a life-size Operation game, race maggots, work out how big a dinosaur was from its footprint, discover first-hand how fungi get their spots, and learn the importance of reporting road kill with the Splatter Project.
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After $1.5M deal, Hillsboro Hops will play ball at newly minted Ron Tonkin Field
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A noted Portland auto dealership has procured naming rights to Hillsboro's baseball stadium.
The home of the Hillsboro Hops will be called Ron Tonkin Field, in memory of the Tonkin family's patriarch. The Tonkins have operated dealerships in the Portland area for decades.
Hillsboro Mayor Jerry Willey made the announcement at a press conference today at the park, which has hosted the Hops Single-A team since the beginning of the 2013 season.
The deal is worth $1.5 million over 10 years.
"We're very proud of our ballpark and excited to have the Tonkin family become part of our family," said Hillsboro Mayor Jerry Willey.
Tonkin's sons Brad and Ed said baseball has been a critical part of their family.
"My family's love of baseball was influenced by our dad," said Ed Tonkin. "He loved baseball and often spoke of growing up watching baseball as a kid on Vaughan Street. The thought of losing the Portland Beavers and losing baseball in Portland in the early 80's troubled him so much he got a group together to buy the Beavers to keep baseball in our city.
"Naming this field in his honor is really a tribute to him and to all of the great times our family shared at the ballpark. My hope is that generations of area families can continue to keep catching fly balls, eating too many hot dogs and making wonderful family memories like we did."
The Hops recently were named one of the top 25 teams, in terms of merchandising, in the minor leagues.
Tonkin Family of Dealerships will pay city $150K/yr for 10 yrs
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"I expect you to help in the return of the kidnapped youngsters and in catching the abductors," a statement issued by the prime minister's office quoted Netanyahu as telling Abbas in a telephone call.
On Sunday, Gilad Erdan, a minister in Netanyahu's security cabinet, told Israeli television that Abbas's security forces were "willingly" helping search for the teenagers.
A statement on Monday by Abbas's office made no mention of the conversation with Netanyahu. But it said the "Palestinian presidency condemns ... the kidnapping of three Israeli boys and the series of Israeli violations" -- a reference to Israeli military raids and arrests since they disappeared on Thursday.
Both leaders have had infrequent telephone conversations in recent years, usually to convey greetings on Jewish and Muslim holidays.
Netanyahu broke off Israel's peace talks with Abbas in April after the Western-backed leader signed a unity deal with Israel's bitter enemy, the Hamas Islamist group the runs the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday, Netanyahu said Hamas members had kidnapped the three teenagers. Hamas dismissed what it called Netanyahu's "stupid comments" and suggested he was trying to draw the group into disclosing whether it was behind the abduction.
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X-raying stellar winds in a high-speed collision
Two massive stars racing in orbit around each other have had their colliding stellar winds X-rayed for the first time, thanks to the combined efforts of ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Swift space telescopes.
Stellar winds, pushed away from a massive star's surface by its intense light, can have a profound influence on their environment.
In some locations, they may trigger the collapse of surrounding clouds of gas and dust to form new stars.
In others, they may blast the clouds away before they have the chance to get started.
Now, XMM-Newton and Swift have found a 'Rosetta stone' for such winds in a binary system known as Cyg OB2 #9, located in the Cygnus star-forming region, where the winds from two massive stars orbiting around each other collide at high speeds.
Colliding winds at Cyg OB2 #9
Cyg OB2 #9 remained a puzzle for many years. Its peculiar radio emission could only be explained if the object was not a single star but two, a hypothesis that was confirmed in 2008.
At the time of the discovery, however, there was no direct evidence for the winds from the two stars colliding, even though the X-ray signature of such a phenomenon was expected.
This signature could only be found by tracking the stars as they neared the closest point on their 2.4-year orbit around each other, an opportunity that presented itself between June and July 2011.
As the space telescopes looked on, the fierce stellar winds slammed together at speeds of several million kilometres per hour, generating hot plasma at a million degrees which then shone brightly in X-rays.
Colliding winds at WR 22
The telescopes recorded a four-fold increase in energy compared with the normal X-ray emission seen when the stars were further apart on their elliptical orbit.
"This is the first time that we have found clear evidence for colliding winds in this system," says Yael Nazé of the Université de Liège, Belgium, and lead author of the paper describing the results reported in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
"We only have a few other examples of winds in binary systems crashing together, but this one example can really be considered an archetype for this phenomenon."
Unlike the handful of other colliding wind systems, the style of the collision in Cyg OB2 #9 remains the same throughout the stars' orbit, despite the increase in intensity as the two winds meet.
"In other examples the collision is turbulent; the winds of one star might crash onto the other when they are at their closest, causing a sudden drop in X-ray emission," says Dr Nazé.
"But in the Cyg OB2 #9 system there is no such observation, so we can consider it the first 'simple' example that has been discovered – that really is the key to developing better models to help understand the characteristics of these powerful stellar winds. "
"This particular binary system represents an important stepping stone in our understanding of stellar wind collisions and their associated emissions, and could only be achieved by tracking the two stars orbiting around each other with X-ray telescopes," adds ESA's XMM-Newton project scientist Norbert Schartel.
- XMM-Newton overview
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_overview - XMM-Newton factsheet
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_factsheet - XMM-Newton operations
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/XMM-Newton_operations - A magnetic monster's dual personality
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/A_magnetic_monster_s_dual_personality - X-raying the beating heart of a newborn star
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/X-raying_the_beating_heart_of_a_newborn_star - The dark heart of a cosmic collision
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/The_dark_heart_of_a_cosmic_collision - XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_uncovers_a_celestial_Rosetta_stone - XMM-Newton discovers a new class of black holes
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_discovers_a_new_class_of_black_holes - Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Integral/Giant_eruption_reveals_dead_star - XMM-Newton exclusive photo: Messier 82
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_exclusive_photo_Messier_82 - XMM-Newton measures speedy spin of rare celestial object
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_measures_speedy_spin_of_rare_celestial_object - Splashy portrait paints picture of how stars form
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Splashy_portrait_paints_picture_of_how_stars_form - XMM-Newton watches lazy pulsar being jazzed up by companion
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_watches_lazy_pulsar_being_jazzed_up_by_companion - Extended movie of Cyg OB2 #9
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011109/ - NASA Swift
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/main/index.html - This article in depth
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=50904 - XMM-Newton in-depth
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The latest PC component to undergo a power-efficiency makeover is one we weren't quite expecting: the hard drive. Western Digital's latest Caviar SE16 features IntelliSeek, a just-in-time approach to actuator movement that is supposed to not only lower power consumption but also reduce noise levels by minimizing seek-induced vibration. WD claims these gains are accomplished without slowing seek times, which bodes well for the Caviar's appeal among enthusiasts who demand that power savings not come at the expense of performance.
Western Digital has also given the drive a much-needed capacity boost up to 750GB courtesy of four perpendicular-packed platters, and they've fiddled with the internals to improve reliability. Are those changes, coupled with IntelliSeek, enough to elevate the Caviar above its rivals? Read on to find out.
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Tony Perkins: 'The Boy Scouts should have a policy like Don't Ask Don't Tell'
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This man's stupidity astounds me. There's a higher incidence of male on male than female on male abuse which indicates some form of problem? Of course that's the case because a higher proportion of men than women have sexually abused children. By his logic no male scoutleaders should be allowed whatsoever.
If you apply his logic, there would be no male mentors allowed in any organization because of the risk factor. Actually if you go a stage further perhaps considering his opinion he shouldn't be allowed to be a father, because as a male he also posses a risk to his own kids well being!
As for his opinion "I won't ask…"
Tony Perkins sits on a throne of dead gay kids. He will do or say anything to push a gay child or teen so far from his parents love that they hide their sexuality in a mental cage. If is as evil as evil comes. One day he will get when is coming to him.
Another idiot who can't see beyond the fact that not only adult indentify as LGBT.
The fact such adult feel it's ok to discriminate against children (let alone adults) is well beyond contempt.
This is what passes for "Family values" in the States? Guess no men should coach girls in any sport or even the debate team.
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such as the military don't have any more, that one?
I gave the best part of 10 years of my life to Scouting. How can anyone discriminate against a male just because he 'may'. Later on after I retired I had two of my scouts contact me through a gay site thanking me for being a role model for them growing up. They feel that society was against them but because I accepted them for how they are they fely better about themselves and have gone on to grow into good men. As for the Tory Minister he should retire and go to the country n tend his shepp.
So the "Family Research Council" would promote deceit as a moral value worthy of the BSA.
Tony Perkins is obsessed with gay sex, so much so that every time I hear him talk about it I get the impression he's talking about himself.
… and don't you think that's the case with ALL homophobes? People who are comfortable with their sexiuality are NEVER homophobic. Only self-haters – with deep, unacknowledged fears about same-sex attraction – present homophobic opnions. "Show me a homophobe; I'll show you a closet case …"
Before too much longer, I think the Republicans will have to adopt a similar policy.
How would Mr. Tony Perkins like a 'no breeders' policy? Because that's the exact same discrimination he's spewing from his mouth in comparison. It's easy for him to criticise too when he is in a majority… try walking a mile in a gay persons shoes – what an ignoramus!
Mr. Perkins, does the "don't ask, don't tell" make your life easier to explain?
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On 25-26 May 2006, the Austrian Council Presidency hosted a conference in Vienna on the theme of The Review of the Consumer Acquis and the Common Frame of Reference progress, key issues, perspectives", with financing of the European Commission, Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection. The event was the second European Discussion Forum, following the first Discussion Forum in London of 26 September 2005. The conference brought together some 180 participants: experts from the CFR-net and from Member States, senior representatives from business and consumer side as well as Members of the European Parliament. Working sessions concentrated on how the CFR can usefully contribute to the current review of the consumer acquis as well as on current relevant issues of the CFR work and the review of the acquis.
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A three-judge panel on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 32-page ruling that the FCC's indecency rules created "a chilling effect that goes far beyond the fleeting expletives at issue here."
FCC commissioner Michael Copps said in a statement that the court's decision was "anti-family." He said the FCC's policy was "constitutional and enforceable," but he called on the commission to "immediately to clarify and strengthen its indecency framework."
The appellate court's decision was a major milestone for television and radio broadcasters who have long complained the FCC's rules violated First Amendment rights.
Several years ago, the FCC had levied fines on scripted expletives but had typically been more lenient about accidental profanities uttered during live shows.
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The FCC policy formed largely from a 1978 Supreme Court decision that allowed the commission to fine a radio station for airing late comedian George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" monologue.
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Ruby Velle and The Soulphonics
Heavy Chevy, DJ Agent 45
Terminal West
887 West Marietta St. Studio C
Atlanta, GA, 30318
Doors 9:00 PM
This event is 18 and over
"It's About Time," the full-length debut album from Atlanta's Ruby
Velle & The Soulphonics, has quickly made waves around the globe since
its recent September 2012 release. Billboard has recently ranked the
album in the top 30 on the Heatseeker charts, a chart devoted to
emerging artists. In the US, the lead off single "My Dear" was
featured as iTunes' "single of the week", sparking a digital soul-grab
of 200,000 single downloads, and 1200 full album download sales,
landing the album at #4 on the iTunes R&B charts. The same week, Jim
Farber of The New York Daily News named the album in his much
sought-after top ten. In addition, Google Play has offered"My Dear" as
a free track for the month of October for all smartphone users.
In Christmas week December 2012, the single "Heartlite" was featured
as the Starbucks "Pick of the Week" which garnered over 250,000
downloads and presence in all Starbucks location wi-fi pages
Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics roots are embedded in the rich sound and
history of Georgia soul, beginning with the early 50's and 60's R&B
that became so well known around the world. Having performed countless
gigs since 2005, and with a slew of 45rpm singles already under their
belts, the band has already contributed heavily to the steadily
increasing awareness of genuine rhythm and blues music that exists
today. They pack clubs and festivals with their original brand of
soul, all of which is written and recorded in Atlanta. Ruby Velle &
The Soulphonics are taking it world wide in 2012, with the release of
"It's About Time."
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19 Nov 2007
Norma returns to the Met
The bel canto era, insofar as the contemporary public considers it at all, is usually thought of as the golden age of vocal beauty for its own sake.
Káťa Kabanová is, they say, Janáček's first mature opera — it comes a mere 20 years after his masterpiece, Jenůfa.
Nice's golden winter light is not that of England's North Sea coast. Nonetheless the Opéra de Nice's new production of Peter Grimes did much to take us there.
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David McVicar's production of Wagner's seminal music drama runs aground on the Cornish coast.
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Umberto's Giordano's Andrea Chénier, now at the Royal Opera House, is no more about history than Jesus Christ Superstar is about theology.
Mariusz Treliński's staging of Tchaikovsky's operatic masterpiece is visually fascinating but psychologically confusing
The regal trumpets and sackbuts sound their bold herald and, followed by admiring eyes, the powers of state and church begin their dignified procession along a sloping walkway to assume their lofty positions upon the central dais.
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There were hints that L'elisir is one of the great bel canto masterpieces.
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Forty-one years is a long time for any partnership to be sustained and to flourish — be it musical, commercial or marital! And, given The Hilliard Ensemble's ongoing reputation as one of the world's finest a cappella groups, noted for their performances of works dating from the 11 th century to the present day, it must have been a tough decision to call an end to more than four decades of superlative music-making.
Daniel Barenboim makes a triumphant departure as direttore musicale del Teatro alla Scala with Beethoven's operatic masterpiece.
Star singer and star composer, a combination guaranteed to bring in the fans. Christian Gerhaher sang Mahler at the Wigmore Hall with Gerold Huber. Gerhaher shot to fame when he sang Wolfram at the Royal Opera House Tannhäuser in 2010.
Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at the Royal Opera House — a masked ball in every sense, where nothing is quite what it seems.
Small country, small opera house — big ensemble spirit. Internationally acclaimed soprano Natalia Ushakova steps in for indisposed local Violetta with mixed results.
Bulgarian director Vera Nemirova's production of Otello for the Romanian National Opera in Bucharest was certainly full of new ideas — unfortunately all bad.
The bel canto era, insofar as the contemporary public considers it at all, is usually thought of as the golden age of vocal beauty for its own sake.
It was certainly an era when the artist's use of the voice to create character and drama were of the highest value, but the operas that survive (very few half a century ago, quite a few now), though the melodies are ravishing, call for singers who can bring them to life emotionally — they are never just vocal exercises for songbirds.
In the midst of that era, in 1831, Bellini's Norma was created — by Giuditta Pasta, one of the most renowned singing actresses of her time, who had created Donizetti's raging Anna Bolena and Bellini's pathetic Sonnambula in the two years before Norma. And Norma is a curiosity in its era (more apparently now than at the time, when classical tragedies were often being turned into operas), calling as it does on the outsize character and emotional spectrum of a classical heroine: a Medea not just angry but deeply in love, a Phaedra who must also be a hypocritical politician and an edgy friend, a Clytemnestra wracked by jealousy and maternal misgiving.
Sopranos used to have a hearty respect for Norma — they didn't take it on unless they were sure. Canny divas like Flagstad, Tebaldi and Price turned it down when management offered. Fewer ladies sang the role in eighty years at the Old Met than have attempted it in a mere forty at the New Met — the reason being that Callas made it sound supremely worth trying (it was her favorite role), while Sutherland and Caballe made it sound easy to sing; so that all kinds of singers took it on who had no business doing so. It's a killer, demanding not only effortless floating tones and stunning coloratura on her first appearance (plus the ability to blend with the other soprano's coloratura later on), but the dramatic capacity to hold an audience through the solo scene of attempted infanticide, the power to lead the war chorus, the concentrated fury of the duet with Pollione, and the authority to carry the superb finale.
The Met revives it nowadays, one gets the feeling, because audiences know the many Callas recordings (or Sutherland's, or Caballe's spectacular video from Orange), not because they have a real exemplar of the role to sing it. And without a Norma, you have pretty tunes but you haven't really got a Norma.
The current revival began with Hasmik Papian in the role and is slated to continue with Maria Guleghina. After her Lady Macbeth — exciting and loud and flamboyantly acted, but with the ornaments fudged or flubbed — I have my doubts that Guleghina can handle this. Still, she will certainly play it; it will be a necessary event for all opera lovers sorry they weren't in Lakehurst the night the Hindenburg landed. The casting of Papian, who has sung Norma to some acclaim in Washington and Toronto and whose Met Aida was impressive, spinning controlled pianissimi better than any Met Aida has in twenty years, gave one hope for her Norma, in spite of deficiencies those performances revealed in her dramatic imagination.
Such deficiencies necessarily undermine any well-sung Norma, but if the director is aware of them, appreciates a singer's talents and weaknesses, they need not kill it. Papian is a handsome woman with a good figure; she can move on stage; and her tendency to fall back on the sort of antique dramatic gestures one sees in nineteenth-century engravings (Giuditta Pasta would recognize all of them, probably invented some of them) is not necessarily wrong for this role. Sutherland had little stage instinct, heaven knows, but she was a distinct diva presence in the part: no one wanted to tangle with this woman, and the vocalism was sublime enough to pull it off. Papian needs someone to walk her through the role, someone who really gets both Papian and Norma — she gives sympathetic performances on well-directed DVDs — but left to her own devices, she does not know how to join these attitudes into a woman torn by the requirements of priestess, lover, mother, friend, patriot, heroine: Papian only portrays a singer in search of a good spot on the stage.
Her vocalism, at least on the first two nights, did not justify her choice for this role either. Bereft of brilliant high notes, she took the lower choices — which are valid if one makes something of them — and she made pleasing use of grace notes in the "Vieni a me ritorna," without, however, ornamenting the repeat. (What's the point of repeating a cabaletta if you don't vary it, make it individual?) She grew steadily more in command as the evening progressed, but she showed no sign of becoming Norma, the person Bellini invented, until the final furious duet with Pollione when gleaming metal furled from her throat, displaying a high register and a command that had no precedent all evening. Norma is not an opera for a diva who takes an act and a half to warm up to it, and if Papian ever truly was one, that time seems to have passed. (The only soprano of this generation whose Norma — she has never sung it — would arouse my real interest based on her evident abilities would be Krassimira Stoyanova: a fine actress and, based on her Anna Bolena, one able to sing brilliant coloratura expressing genuine rage.)
The Adalgisa of the evening was Dolora Zajick, who would make an interesting Norma. She, too, would sing it low, but she would sing it with the style and personality the part calls for — she would eat her Adalgisa alive, which no Norma would ever manage with Zajick's Adalgisa. Well known and well loved for her powerhouse mezzo, a fiery Amneris who sadly has not been able to persuade the Met to trust her with such operas as Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orleans (which she has sung in many venues, always triumphantly) or Donizetti's La Favorite (which she could easily bring off, with the right tenor), Zajick scales her big voice down for the demands of bel canto style. Indeed, her grasp of that style, of the evenness and delicacy required, were lessons Papian could study with profit. (Zajick had similarly shown up a caterwauling Jane Eaglen when the production was new.)
Scene with Hasmik Papian as Norma
Pollione was Franco Farina, a handsome burly figure but an uneven singer. In fact, he gave more pleasure in this role than he has in others — either Bellini suits him or he's growing up. There were honeyed phrases in his first aria, and when a line lay too high for him (this varied from night to night, apparently as he gauged his chances of reaching a C), he interpolated an attractive variation on Bellini's melody instead — a practice the bel canto era would certainly have regarded with approval. He matched Papian's passion in their final duet and looked genuinely thunderstruck when she proclaimed her guilt to her people. If the money notes come more easily and he continues to focus on flowing line, he could be a real asset in roles like Radames and Riccardo; he has power, and he doesn't bark.
Vitalij Kowaljow made gorgeous sounds in the thankless part of Oroveso; one day, when he is the house's reigning King Philip, we will remember his long apprenticeship. The tension I always feel at any performance of Norma — am I going to want to murder the children before she gets around to it? — kept me on pins till the final scene, when the already annoying tots appeared quite gratuitously. Dammi il ferro. (I don't advise them to stick around when Guleghina arrives.)
Maurizio Benini led a swift-paced, bang-up account of the score. There were places that might have been more sensitive to emotional movement, and balances in the orchestra that favored the oom-pah-pah bass line over melodic flavor, but there was little chance of anyone going to sleep. John Conklin's sets, with their profusion of coffee tables and an opening scene set in what appeared to be a glossy-floored Druidic art gallery displaying a show of overfed Giacomettis, generally managed to stay out of everyone's way. Now if only a Pasta or Callas or Ponselle had cared to grab the center stage.
John Yohalem


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The set of six patches by prolific AMD open-source driver developer Marek Olšák revolve around improving performance in cases where there is limited video RAM and not enough vRAM for all of the buffers.
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