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It's not giving too much away to say that the last act of Berg's opera Wozzeck is unpleasant – in fact it includes a brutal murder and an accidental drowning. How does a director stage such gruesome events? The late Stefanos Lazaridis, who designed Keith Warner's stark production from 2002, came up with an ingenious solution. He focused the action on four large tanks which sit on stage throughout the performance. Wozzeck falls into a full tank of water while trying to retrieve the knife with which he has just murdered his common-law wife Marie. His drowning looks horribly realistic.
When the tank was first designed, Matthias Goerne, who was singing Wozzeck, insisted on plunging into the water and staying under until the end of the opera. When the production was revived, the next Wozzeck, Johan Reuter, followed suit. 'I didn't hesitate – I was thrilled!', he said. 'I thought it was a great idea and I wondered how it would feel to be suspended in water for a good seven or eight minutes. Strangely I found it quite tiring to lie very still in the water.'
You can't have an expensive baritone drowning, so Wozzeck has a snorkel mouthpiece and air pipe hidden inside the tank which he must grab as soon as he falls in. Production Manager Colin Maxwell explains that safety at the ROH is taken very seriously. 'Before the performance there's a careful procedure of checking. Of course if anything happens, they could just get out.' Maxwell says the other things to worry about are making sure the water is sterile so Wozzeck doesn't catch any germs, getting the temperature of the water right so Marie's blood disperses realistically, and ensuring that the cable supplying power to the light inside the tank is completely waterproof.
Even the best-laid plans sometimes go wrong. Johan Reuter remembers the night when he felt the mouthpiece slipping out of his mouth. 'I took a deep breath, not knowing what was going to happen, and I floated up to the surface. I lay like a lifeless person, my mouth and nose were the only things above the water. It was very effective – but also a bit scary!'
Simon Keenlyside, who sings the title role this autumn, is known to be a physically fearless performer and Johan Reuter has no doubt that he will enjoy the role. 'Keith Warner has made a wonderful production and it's brilliant to be in it. But I've never seen it from the audience. I imagine it's pretty terrifying!'
Wozzeck runs from 31 October - 15 November 2013. Tickets are still available.]]>
Whether they come from the muzzle of the Minotaur or the lips of an enchantress, the words in a David Harsent libretto are distinguished by their lyricism, intensity and narrative drive. Harsent is the author of ten collections of poetry, including the Forward-Prize-winning Legion; under various pseudonyms he also writes thrillers. It's this combination of talents that has attracted such composers as Birtwistle to commission librettos which they know will complement their musical conceptions.
Harsent's work can be heard on two occasions in the forthcoming Season. Before The Minotaur roars onto the stage in January 2013, Music Theatre Wales and Scottish Opera bring a one-act opera, In the Locked Room, with music by Huw Watkins, to the Linbury Studio Theatre. It's the second libretto that Harsent has written for Watkins and MTW; the first was a chamber opera, Crime Fiction. Similarly, Birtwistle has set three of Harsent's texts as music dramas – The Corridor, The Woman and the Hare and The Ring Dance of the Nazarene – and commissioned librettos for two major operas, both of which have been premiered at the Royal Opera House – Gawain in 1991 (and, revised, in 1994) and The Minotaur in 2008.
So, how different is it to write for a gruff, 77-year-old Lancastrian 'genius' as Harsent calls him, and a 36-year-old Welsh pianist whose modest body of work contains mainly orchestral and chamber pieces? Surprisingly similar, according to Harsent. "I went through exactly the same method with Huw as with Harry in that we agreed on a piece, talked about it to make sure we were approaching it from the same direction, and then I sat down and wrote it. Once I'd handed it over, then that business of their composition starting to tell on mine came about."
He cites one particular circumstance in which both composers came back with the same request. "In The Minotaur, Harry said, 'I can't set a cry, 'Aaaah', because it's a sound. There's got to be something to hang the music on.' Huw said exactly the same to me – 'Can this be a word rather than a cry?' I changed it."
The long partnership between Harsent and Birtwistle is informed by a shared love of theatre. "Sometimes he'll suggest a change that is wholly theatrical rather than musical," says Harsent. "He asked me to write something extra for a moment in which Ariadne (Christine Rice) is alone on stage: 'A little aria, about eight lines, make it dark'. So I wrote her the aria 'The Cretan sun is black'. And it turned out to be one of the best moments in the piece, I thought." Harsent's language matches Birtwistle's music in that it can be terse, visceral, even brutal. That's balanced by passages of glowing lyricism, often involving images of nature: the sun, the moon and the seasons.
When he handed over the libretto of In the Locked Room he told Huw Watkins to call if there was anything he needed. "He phoned soon after and said 'I've hit a small snag. It's the first word.' He wasn't joking. But it was easily solved – my first word had been 'Near'. It's now 'By… the scenic village of Canley Bay'". In the Locked Room features a mysterious poet (Harsent uses lines from his own poems) and an unhappy woman whose banker husband is obsessed with making money. The libretto conjures up an atmosphere of unease and sadness; lost souls float through it. Harsent has no idea what the music will be like. "I haven't heard a note yet. I do know Huw's music because I did Crime Fiction with him (the title was a wry reference to my other life!) – I did like the way he used limited forces for that; it was very interesting."
Harsent likes to go along to rehearsals of his operas in the early stages: "As with any play, there ought to be a conversation between the director and the writer. It's a collaborative process, initially between me and the composer, but then it's a broader collaboration. I hope to go to rehearsals for The Minotaur. It's one of the pieces I'm proudest of. It's much better integrated than Gawain as a theatre piece – Gawain was my first main-stage piece and I was green. I think I got it right in The Minotaur."
How does he feel about the composer always getting top billing? "When other writers have complained to me I say, 'just don't work in opera if that worries you'"
There's no changing the fact that, like Mozart's Don Giovanni, posterity will remember it as Birtwistle's The Minotaur. Happily, David Harsent's reputation as a librettist, novelist and award-winning poet guarantees him a prominent place in the credits.
This feature was adapted from a piece originally featured in About the House magazine, received quarterly by the Friends of Covent Garden. In the Locked Room opens on 27 September. The Minotaur returns on 17 January 2013.]]>
It's entirely fitting that the Royal Opera House has joined forces with BP and The Olympic Museum to host the unique The Olympic Journey: The Story of the Games exhibition in July and August. There are plenty of parallels between the world-class dancers and singers who appear on the ROH stage and top-level athletes. We highlighted some of these in the last four videos in the ROH World Stage series, which showed artists such as Lauren Cuthbertson, Edward Watson and Angela Gheorghiu filmed in a sporting context.
Who better to compare athletes and artists' rigorous training and dedication to excellence than Jonathan Edwards, world-record holder and Olympic gold medallist in the triple jump, and Deborah Bull, a former Royal Ballet Principal and Creative Director of the Royal Opera House.
Deborah Bull began by asking Edwards whether a certain physique, or body type, was necessary for excellence in triple jumping. 'Rowers are probably more of a type, but with the triple jump you've got more variety,' says Edwards. 'There's me, who is relatively skinny, but the current British champion is 6ft 6ins. And the length of your legs doesn't make a difference, it's what you do with them.' He turned the question back to Bull: 'Is there an ideal physique for a dancer?'
'The interesting thing about ballet is that it's not a single event,' she explains. 'You have to be a bit of an endurance athlete, you have to be a high jumper, you've got to have quickness of response as well as the elegance of a skater or a gymnast. The reason I was quite a good ballet dancer is that I was an all-rounder.'
Edwards wanted to know how dancers built up their endurance. 'It's not exactly an endurance sport because the activity is stop-start,' says Bull. 'The best analogy is a football match, 90 minutes with an interval (or three acts for us). Sprint, stop, recover, sprint. It's not marathon running, but it's sustained over a long period with bursts of the explosive energy you use in the triple jump.'
Edwards described his training routine, which consisted not of endless triple jumping, but 'a massive amount of weight training, single repetitions with maximal effort'. He was curious to know how dancers trained. Until recently, said Bull, ballet dancers trained only through dancing itself. 'The potential to gain muscle strength through alternative training, in order to increase elevation for instance, is relatively new for us. Today men do more gym work and they focus particularly on the strength needed to lift women – remember they are lifting the weight of another person,' says Bull. 'Women dancers don't want to bulk up, so their gym routines are often more focused on stamina. But if we really wanted to increase our jump we'd benefit from the type of training you did.'
'I didn't do classic jump training, but I did depth-jumping, off one box and onto another,' says Edwards. 'Obviously the triple jump is all about being able to absorb force and then respond. I was able to do that better than anyone else.' Watch Edwards in action.
That action is known as eccentric loading and Bull says there's an obvious parallel with ballet. 'When a muscle is at full stretch, at the bottom of the landing from a jump, the hardest thing is for it to contract to spring up again – quickly – as in the 32 fouettés (in Swan Lake). Watch exactly how a fouetté is performed.
Bull continues: 'If you're jumping from the left leg to land on the right, the left leg goes back to a normal state, but if you're going up and down on the same leg, as you do in the triple jump, that's one of the toughest demands you can make on a muscle. Imagine doing that 32 times in succession.'
So next time you watch a Royal Ballet Principal making those 32 fouettés look effortless, remember that it demands the strength and skill of an Olympic athlete.
The Olympic Journey: The Story of the Games is a free exhibition at the Royal Opera House from 28 July to 12 August, 8am–7pm. Find out more in our News and Features section.
This feature was adapted from a piece originally featured in About the House magazine, received quarterly by the Friends of Covent Garden.]]>
A world-class cast, colourful music and intriguing supernatural elements come together on the Covent Garden main stage for the first time in 100 years. Robert le diable will be a true event, and here are some of the reasons you shouldn't miss it:
1) Meyerbeer's historical melodrama put the Grand into French Grand Opera.
It wasn't the first grand opera to be written, and it's not entirely typical of the genre, but it was Meyerbeer's genius to knit together romance, historical detail, stage magic and a classic Romantic 'white' ballet into something entirely new and breathtaking in its scale – including four hours of music.
2) It's the first time it has been staged for over a century at Covent Garden, and the opera is on a spectacular scale.
The staging is by Laurent Pelly and designer Chantal Thomas, the brilliant duo responsible for acclaimed productions including La Fille du régiment and L'elisir d'amore, so expect wit and charm as well as spectacular effects.
3) This opera is a delight for those who love dramatic as well as lyric voices.
The Royal Opera's world-class cast includes North American stars Jennifer Rowley, Bryan Hymel (most recently in Les Troyens), John Relyea and Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya, all singers who possess the virtuosity, stamina and dramatic flair necessary for this opera. There is also plenty of work for a huge chorus, who will appear as medieval Sicilians, chanting monks and more.
4) It's a rare chance to enjoy a specially choreographed ballet during an opera
Immortalized in a painting by Degas, the erotic ballet for ghostly nuns is choreographed for this production by talented young French choreographer Lionel Hoche.
5) Meyerbeer's music was phenomenally successful in 19th-century Europe and it's time to rediscover this underrated composer.
He brings out the myriad colours in a big orchestra; his vocal lines demand not only power and volume but also vocal flexibility and a delicatesse that is an essential part of the French style. Even in this grandiose supernatural tale, there is a human dimension that promises to be very moving.
Are you a fan of Meyerbeer's opera? Have you seen it staged elsewhere? Let us know your thoughts.
The Royal Opera's production of Robert le diable will be performed on the main stage from 6-21 December 2012.
Eva-Maria Westbroek, who recently sang the role of Sieglinde in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Die Walküre, will be performing on Monday in the opening night of David McVicar's Les Troyens.
Westbroek, who has sung the role of Cassandre in Netherlands Opera's Les Troyens, is looking forward to immersing herself in Berlioz's unique sound world once again. "It's absolutely overwhelming, amazing music – once you get used to it," she says. "It's in a world of its own. And Les Troyens is a tremendous work."
Westbroek will be singing role of Didon, the proud Queen who creates a utopian kingdom only to see it destroyed by the man she loves. "I wanted to sing Didon very much. Cassandre is phenomenal, but Didon has such glorious music, and the story – it's divinely beautiful!"
Westbroek has hardly been typecast in her career – in fact her last two appearances at Covent Garden could hardly have been more different from each other, let alone from Berlioz's African queen. In February 2011 she created the larger-than-life tabloid star Anna Nicole in The Royal Opera's eye-catching production of Turnage's opera about modern celebrity. At the beginning of the 2011/12 Season she sang the frustrated, unhappy barge-owner's wife Giorgetta in Richard Jones's production of Il tabarro. What united these two performances was Westbroek's modern sensibility; in each case she brought out the inner life of a feisty independent woman treated badly by the men her life. But a grander, more epic tragedy befalls the two women central to Berlioz's version of The Aeneid. How will Westbroek deal with a role that demands a touch of the old-fashioned tragedienne?
"I think it will take some work and that's why I'm so glad to be doing it. It will be exciting to be a real tragedienne, not just to be very naturalistic and earthy."
Lisa Gasteen as Brünnhilde and Eva Maria Westbroek as Sieglinde in Die Walküre © Clive Barda/ROH 2007
Alan Oke as J.Howard Marshall, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Anna Nicole and Gerald Finley as Stern in Anna Nicole in Anna Nicole © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011
Eva-Maria Westbroek as Anna Nicole and Alan Oke as J.Howard Marshall in Anna Nicole © ROH/Cooper/ROH 2011
Eva-Maria Westbroek as Minnie and Jose Cura as Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West © Catherine Ashmore/ROH 2007
Eva-Maria Westbroek as Minnie and Jose Cura as Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West © Catherine Ashmore/ROH 2007
Eva-Maria Westbroek as Minnie and Jose Cura as Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West © Catherine Ashmore/ROH 2012
Previous Didons have included substantial sopranos such as Blanche Thebom, Josephine Veasey, Tatiana Troyanos, Christa Ludwig, Régine Crespin and Janet Baker (definitely not someone you could imagine spending a night of passion in a cave). Does Westbroek think she can summon the requisite regal hauteur? She roars with laughter. "I suppose I will have to find my dignified side. It's true that I always do roles like Katerina Ismailova (Shostakovich) and Anna Nicole (Mark-Anthony Turnage) who are not the most dignified people. They're full of passion and earthly desires; they're not regal at all."
She can't resist pointing out one unintended phrase that Berlioz gave to Didon: 'Ma carrière est fini'. "I love that line; it makes me giggle. Even the best singers are a little scared of singing those words!"
For a soprano, how do the roles of Cassandre and Didon compare in terms of difficulty? "Cassandre is very out-there and dramatic all the time and it's demanding of a certain part of your voice. Her music is declamatory in an aggressive way, in the middle voice. Didon is declamatory but she doesn't have that aggression, so you don't have to be so loud in your very low middle voice. And she's more lyrical. Didon's music is just gorgeous."
Of all her predecessors, Westbroek makes special mention of Régine Crespin. "She is the epitome of French music and French singing. As well as being regal she is so sensual; I love her very much. But I also think the world of Janet Baker. It just shows that two very different voices and characters can make a stunning Didon."
Does she have ideas about how she'll characterize her own Didon? "I'm always very influenced by people – the conductor, for instance", she says. "Working with Tony is always something very special and you always feel like you become a better singer with him. And the director also gives me new ideas and other ways to look at things."
In April, Westbroek was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Music Awards following her performances in Anna Nicole, which premiered in February 2011; and Il trittico, which opened in September 2011.
Watch clips of Westbroek's performance in Anna Nicole:
This article was amended from the original version, which appeared in the January 2012 issue of About the House.]]>
One of the daily challenges faced by the Royal Opera House's make-up artists is the need to conceal visible tattoos sported by singers, dancers and actors appearing onstage. Opera team leader Mathias Nacke and technician Cecilia Öberg shared some of their secrets.
'There are two products that we use, depending on what the artist is going to be doing onstage. Dermacolor is like a very thick foundation, and is sometimes used medically, to camouflage discoloration, birthmarks or scarring. It's expensive – a professional palette costs around £90 – but you can blend it to match any skin tone. It works well for performers who are not going to be moving too much onstage or getting close to other people – otherwise it can transfer onto costumes or rub off on other performers. It can be removed with an oil-based cleanser.
'For artists who are going to be moving a lot on stage, such as dancers, we need to use a waterproof product. Skin Illustrator is alcohol-based, and once it's dry it's sweat proof and won't rub off without an alcohol-based cleanser. It's even more expensive than Dermacolor – about £120 a palette – and is definitely a product that should only be used by professional make-up artists.'
This feature was adapted from a piece originally featured in About the House magazine, received quarterly by the Friends of Covent Garden.]]>
Angela Denoke must be a shape-shifter. How else could the elegant blonde woman sitting opposite me turn herself into a cold-blooded murderer, a psychotic woman or a damaged teenager desperate for love? And how does she shrug off the psychological scars at the end of a performance, along with the red wig or the bloodstained shift?
"You don't have to become these women, you just have to understand what they're feeling," says Denoke stretching out her long, black-jeaned legs after a flight from Vienna. "I like to take on these roles – Katya Kabanova, Marie in Wozzeck, Katerina in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. They're all passionate women who are fighting to survive. I can feel what they're feeling."
I've just heard Denoke sing her first Katerina at the Vienna State Opera. The part suits her so well, physically and vocally, that she might have been singing it all her life. The same is true of Strauss's complex heroine Salome, which she returns to Covent Garden in May for a revival of David McVicar's searing production. When Denoke slips on Salome's simple white dress, it will be the fifth time she has appeared in this opera. "In each production I find a different side to her. I love to work with directors who ask a lot of me, and bring out new things. That's what makes this profession so interesting."
Angela Denoke made a short but memorable debut at the Royal Opera House in 2006 in Willy Decker's production of Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung. Her portrayal of the mysterious woman in Erwartung, alone in the dark with a dead body, impressed the exacting Guardian critic Andrew Clements. "Denoke… is the real vocal star of the evening. She sings Schoenberg's cruelly taxing lines with total naturalness, belying the work's reputation, while Petrenko creates teasing webs of sonority around her. It's totally enthralling." Denoke enjoyed her brief experience of working at the Royal Opera House, and is delighted to be back this Season singing in Salome.
She has her own theories about why Salome behaves the way she does – and it's all about love. "She needs love and some real emotion, she just hasn't had it in her life. When she meets Jokanaan she can feel there's something special in this man, but she can't get through to him. The things she does that work on other people just don't work on him." Denoke thinks Salome doesn't mean to be cruel when she asks for his head. "She wants to get his love. She wants him to really look at her for the first time."
It's no coincidence that Denoke is in demand to interpret the 20th century's most difficult scores. As a child she was encouraged by an inspirational piano teacher and became an accomplished pianist. It wasn't until she finished training as a music teacher at Hamburg's University of Music and Theatre, in her mid-20s, that she decided to switch to the vocal course. "I'm very thankful for that training, because today I can sing any music straight off the score."
Angela Denoke is also a versatile actress whose short blonde hair, high cheekbones, slim boyish figure and physical flexibility make her the ideal canvas for directors and costume designers. Even today, in her 40s, she can easily pass for a 20-year-old on stage. Straight after college she won a contract with the opera company in Ulm, and was thrust into an incredible variety of roles. "In my first year I sang Ninetta in Love for Three Oranges, The Merry Widow, the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, a Wolfgang Rihm opera and Falstaff. They were big parts – the Rihm especially was big and difficult – but I loved it." Her voice was already mature; a lyric soprano, not huge but powerful, with an attractive combination of purity and warmth. Today she can take on punishing roles that require her to be on stage from beginning to end, and her stamina never seems to be in doubt. For Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk she had to open the opera singing a pianissimo phrase while lying fl at on her back on the floor. The effect was spine-tingling – the phrase was soft , pure and completely audible at the back of the house. Two and a half hours later, Denoke finished the opera with a simple folk-like lament – equally pure, equally audible, and totally controlled. How on earth does she do it? "I'm very strong. I use my whole body to produce the sound. It takes a long time to get this balance, but once it's there, you can relax."
It's not all 20th-century angst in her repertory, though. She has sung the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier – "I was the youngest Marschallin ever to have sung at the Vienna State Opera." She feels very at home in Wagner, singing in Parsifal and Tannhäuser for Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper, Berlin, among other places. She says she hesitated before agreeing to sing Sieglinde at the Stuttgart Opera, but found it suited her very well. "It's a soprano role, but there's a lot in the middle of the voice. The middle of my voice is very strong, and I can sing lower parts too without pushing. I'm not a mezzo, but maybe I'm a lazy soprano!"
Denoke can conjure up extreme emotions on stage, but in real life she is even-tempered, almost reticent. In spite of the uniformly excellent reviews for almost every role she has tackled, she is reluctant to push herself forward and relies on her agent to set up engagements in international houses. "I don't like to sell myself. I'd love to work on every stage in Europe, but I'm not the sort of person who says to a director, 'Please give me a part'."
She has a thriving career, mostly in Europe, where her strongest relationships are with opera houses in Munich, Berlin and Vienna. She has worked in America – she made a very successful Metropolitan Opera debut in 2005 as the Marschallin – but she prefers to work within reach of Hamburg, where she lives with her husband, American tenor David Kuebler. They met in Christoph Marthaler's 1998 production of Katya Kabanova in Salzburg, as Denoke remembers. "He was my lover, Boris. At one point in the music the director asked us to look into each other's eyes, and at that moment something went between us. You can see it on the DVD!"
They still perform in productions together but Kuebler is scaling down after a career of nearly 40 years and is happy to travel with his wife, or fly in for the weekend when she's working away.
Denoke is back on the stage of the Royal Opera House from 31 May in Salome, once more absorbing David McVicar's vision and turning it into a riveting and doubtless harrowing experience. Don't miss it.
This piece was adapted from the piece published in the January 2010 issue of About the House, the magazine received by the Friends of Covent Garden. Find out how to become a Friend.]]>
The large, light studio on the sixth floor is piled high with objects that divide into two categories: components for a vast war machine, and food – mountains of it. A half-eaten salmon on a platter jostles for space on the workbench with a domed tureen of mushrooms; rifle butts bristle out of cardboard boxes.
The studio floor is occupied by the frame of a giant horse's head being covered with a shell of lifelike weapons (actually fibreglass) by a team of 24 people – all trying to work in a space intended for a staff of 11. In his mezzanine office above the shop floor, Head of Props, Antony Barnett, is cool as a cucumber – or manfully concealing his panic – as he talks about the schedule for two of the biggest new productions ever to come through his department at the same time, Falstaff and Les Troyens.
"I thought last year was busy enough, with Anna Nicole and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But this time we've had to hire more freelance specialists – laminators, mould-makers, carpenters.' Like most of his permanent staff, Barnett himself can turn his hand to everything. 'That's what makes our job interesting. You have to come up with a way of making anything you're asked for by the designer."
Brushing past four giant chandeliers ("each bead on those strings is hand-threaded"), we inspect the 14 trolleys covered in discarded food that appear in the first act of Falstaff, where the Rabelaisian glutton lies on his (specially reinforced) giant bed. Canadian director Robert Carsen has decided that Falstaff is all about eating, so as well as the scene with 14 trolleys, he's included a restaurant scene with diners at eight tables, each at different stages of a meal. Then there's a gentlemen's club, again with drink and food, an act set in a 1950s American kitchen with fully equipped cupboards, and lastly a lavish banquet. For reasons of cost and hygiene, it's more efficient to construct the food than to produce it fresh each night. When The Royal Opera revives Falstaff in the future, it's good to know that the profiteroles will still be good as new.
The weaponry and huge chunks of metal to be used in Les Troyens have also been made from scratch – David McVicar and his designer Es Devlin have placed the conflict in the time of the Boer War and very little existing weaponry in the props department can be reused. Before starting the weapons in the middle of last summer, Barnett calculated how many individual pieces would be needed for the two huge structures that appear in the five-act opera. It was one and a half thousand! Now they are being welded to the giant frame which, at nearly eight metres tall cannot be hauled upright until it reaches the stage. Still to be constructed is a giant tree whose branches must be removable – and fireproof – and a miniature sandstone city, eight metres across. Any more detail would give the game away!
The traditional techniques of props-making are kept alive in the Royal Opera House's workshops – witness the leeks lovingly assembled out of paper rope, scrim and string, and the amazingly realistic lettuce leaf, beef joint or salmon side.
To create a half-eaten salmon, Barnett bought and cooked one himself. "It was delicious, but I had to leave enough to make the mould!"
He is always on the lookout for new materials and methods. Two of the most fruitful areas are the medical world and the aircraft industry. "Everything they develop for aeroplanes will be fireproof, which is good for us. We have regular visits from the fire-brigade to make sure we're following safety regulations."
Even an accident presented an opportunity for medical research. "I injured my arm and I was so impressed by the quick-drying plaster they used on me in hospital that I took the packet away and bought some online." The internet is a fantastic source of props, and Barnett and his colleague Julie spend time on eBay tracking down obscure items. He has managed to find a 1930s pram for The Ring, silverware for Falstaff's banquet, and for Liam Scarlett's new one-act ballet he found a Victorian bed and a beautiful old chair – all of which might have taken weeks to find in individual markets.
Next Season promises to be quieter – Robert le diable, directed by Laurent Pelly, includes a jousting scene and the notorious cemetery scene, giving makers a chance to carve artistic figures on coffins. But there will be nothing as demanding as this Season's two monster productions. How has Barnett managed to stretch his budget to create such an extraordinary number of props this Season? After all, as he points out, "Raw materials, such as metal and wood, have gone up. But as a department we've always made an effort to save money. We're skip-hunters… we love making something cheap look expensive."
That's good news for the ROH's finance department!
This article is taken from About the House magazine, received by the Friends of Covent Garden. Find out more about becoming a friend.]]>


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The promoter of the nit1 gene, encoding the predominantly expressed isoform of the Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. nitrilase isoenzyme family, fused to the β-glucuronidase gene (uidA) drives β-glucuronidase expression in the root system of transgenic A. thaliana and tobacco plants. This expression pattern was shown to be controlled developmentally, suggesting that the early differentiation zone of root tips and the tissue surrounding the zone of lateral root primordia formation may constitute sites of auxin biosynthesis in plants. The root system of A. thaliana was shown to express functional nitrilase enzyme. When sterile roots were fed [2H]5-L-tryptophan, they converted this precusor to [2H]5-indole-3-acetonitrile and [2H]5-indole-3-acetic acid. This latter metabolite was further metabolized into base-labile conjugates which were the predominant form of [2H]5-indole-3-acetic acid extracted from roots. When [1-13C]-indole-3-acetonitrile was fed to sterile roots, it was converted to [1-13C]-indole-3-acetic acid which was further converted to conjugates. The results prove that the A. thaliana root system is an autonomous site of indole-3-acetic acid biosynthesis from L-tryptophan.
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- Indole-3-acetic acid is synthesized from L-tryptophan in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana
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Volume 206, Issue 3 , pp 362-369
- Cover Date
- 1998-08
- 10.1007/s004250050411
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- 0032-0935
- Online ISSN
- 1432-2048
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Keywords
- Key words: Arabidopsis (root system)
- Auxin biosynthesis
- Indole-3-acetonitrile
- Nitrilase
- Tryptophan pathway
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- H. Hillebrand (A1)
- E. W. Weiler (A1)
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Cooperation with the military alliance NATO has helped Finland develop its defence capabilities but national security cannot be secured by a free ride, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö recent told a gathering of that nation's ambassadors in Helsinki.
President Sauli Niinistö told Finland's diplomatic corps that the country's current relationship with NATO had served its interests.
"The NATO-led surveillance of Icelandic air space to be conducted next year is an example of this," Niinistö said.
According to the president, Finland's NATO cooperation has provided freedom of action and choice and room to see and act independently.
However according to Niinistö, national security cannot be secured by a free-ride arrangement.
"It can be cold on that ride, especially at the stage when the conductor appears. So we have to look after ourselves, whether or not we're in an alliance," he noted.
Niinistö said that a foreign and security conference that he hosted at his summer home Kultaranta in June, helped clarify ideas about NATO membership, adding that "some bubbles burst".
"One of them was the idea that NATO membership could replace a strong national defence capability," he declared.
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The background of almost every single trailer or screenshot is the same: an endless vista of land. Most everyone wants to imagine what is out there, e.g., empty land for my guild's future empire, a place to plop my very first home, a place to "get lost", etc.
The actual game is released. The cool vista background? Yup. It's just that... a background. I am hindered by mountains and invisible walls. I am told to stay on the main path and continue my quest line.
The same concept goes for PvP. In SWTOR's Hope Trailer, you see a gigantic Imperial Army that is marching. However, it is ambushed by the Republic! How shocking and heroic! What an element of surprise!
The game launches... there is literally zero element of surprise. Instanced Warzones / Dedicated PvP area is all there is. People are expecting PvP. Strategies are learned within the first month and every game becomes a rinse/repeat cycle. Moreover, Huttball?
Trailers and demos are nothing but lies.
This is why I'm a fan of ArcheAge. While it does have the same "fluff" trailers, it's no-nda policy provides endless YouTube videos so that we can see what the gameplay will really be like. If a game does not do this, it will most likely be a bad game.


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Editorial: States take different paths on question of health exchanges
The next big decision on health care reform is coming up, and it appears states in our region all are taking different approaches on "health exchanges."
One of the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act is to push more people to get health insurance in hopes they will receive more consistent medical care for themselves and their families. At least some portion of the nation's rising health care costs stems from a lack of preventative care and poor management of chronic illness. More regular visits to the family doctor and fewer trips to the ER should help, experts say.
About 16 percent of Americans do not have health insurance. So, closing that gap is a good idea, but the debate continues about how to achieve that goal.
The ACA asks states to set up a "health exchange" -- an online marketplace that would allow people who do not have coverage to shop for health insurance. The exchange would be designed to unite their buying power, make comparison shopping easy and help individuals, families and small businesses find the right fit. Private insurers would compete for the business, but the insurance would have to meet minimum standards.
If the states decide not to set up a health exchange, the federal government will set one up for them. The plan is to have exchanges set up by the fall of 2013 so individuals can get insurance in place by January 2014. That's when most Americans will be required to have health insurance or face a penalty.
In our region, Kentucky is among the 17 states that have decided to run their own health exchange. All but four of those states have Democratic governors. Ohio is one of 17 states that have said they will not set up an exchange. All but one of those states have Republican governors.
West Virginia is one of the states that remain undecided, although there are indications it will choose to partner with federal government on an exchange as several other states are planning to do.
The deadline to decide is currently set for Dec. 14.
For West Virginia, at least, the decision to partner probably makes the most sense. State officials estimate the potential buyers in the state might be 40,000 to 60,000, a relatively small pool, and the set-up costs could be high for administration and operation.
A federal exchange could bring economies of scale and result in lower prices for the consumer. Meanwhile, the state could focus its efforts on educating residents about the new opportunity. That could also include the larger question of whether to expand Medicaid to cover more people, and ACA provides incentives for states to do that.
But experts also think the exchanges alone are likely to add to states' Medicaid expense with residents who have always been eligible but were not enrolled. So, either way states are wise to brace for higher costs in the years ahead.
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11th December - Dodson & Horrell Continue Sponsorship of the British Showjumping National Amateur & Veteran Championships
British Showjumping is extremely pleased to announce that Dodson & Horrell, Europe's leading horse feed specialists, have committed to sponsoring the British Showjumping National Amateur & Veteran Championships 2013. This announcement marks Dodson & Horrell's second year of title sponsorship of this series.
The National Amateur Championships give amateur riders and horses the opportunity to contest an end of year Amateur Final across four different heights of fences. The National Veteran Riders Championships are spilt into minor and major categories. The Dodson & Horrell National Amateur & Veteran Championship Finals 2013 will be held during November/December and the venue will be announced shortly.
The Dodson & Horrell National Amateur & Veteran Champions of 2012, Rowan Ball & Vandora, Gemma Dickens & Oakley's Ace, Michaela Huntington & Zula Maeva and Norman Proffitt & Patent, all took home not only the Championship trophy, but also a coveted Dodson & Horrell winner's rug, sash and rosette.
Dodson & Horrell has developed its flagship product, horse feed, using over 70 years of manufacturing experience and the company prides itself on using the latest research and technology to formulate the highest quality horse feed. This title sponsorship gives Dodson & Horrell the opportunity to offer nutritional advice to showjumping members whilst exposing their products to a wider audience.
Maria Clayton, Head of Communications at British Showjumping, said "British Showjumping is thrilled to be able to announce Dodson & Horrell's continued supported of the National Amateur & Veteran Championships. This year's Championships proved to be very popular and the series aligns perfectly with Dodson & Horrell and their focus for 2013. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their commitment to this series."
The Dodson & Horrell National Amateur First Rounds are in full swing and riders have until the 31st August 2013 to qualify for the Second Rounds, which will be held during September, October and November 2013.


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The Aug. 22 issue contains "A-List" schools across the country, based on recommendations from top high school counselors. The article notes that schools in Geneseo's category "combine the communal feel of a small liberal-arts college with the breadth of choice offered by a big university," and asserts that "this may be one of the very best public institutions for teaching and learning in the nation. Geneseo kids are plenty smart and want to learn."
"In the season of college rankings, it is especially pleasing to find Geneseo in the 'A-list' provided by Parade magazine," said Provost Carol S. Long. "This honor is accorded by recommendations from top high school counselors, the ones who work hard to match students to colleges and who keep careful track of student experiences once they arrive at college. Their respect for Geneseo is based upon our high academic quality and our careful mentoring of students so that they succeed here and throughout their lives."
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Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Jono wins well played.
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Should we do one more with finals? 7 weeks and we'll make it you can't tip against a bottom 3 side twice or something like that.
Do it IMO, I like this well more than the footy one!
Phillip Hughes 1988-2014
RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
Cricket Web's 2013/14 Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"The PFA does not represent players when they have broken the law and been convicted on non-football matters."
- Gordon Taylor in 2009 following Marlon King's release after a prison sentence for sexual assault & ABH
Haha, nah, with this one I keep it nice and simple, look at the table, look at the fixtures, pick a team. In the footy one, I put my personal biases to use far too much!
You do a grand job at it Brumby, more a comment on my own performance
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Get yer tips in early. As per last year you can only pick a side once and only pick against the bottom place side once. In the first round, the bottom place side will be the side with the lowest odds for the 2010 wooden spoon - Richmond (2.85 at sportsbet)
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Avatar now by choice. 5-0 in the Ashes and all.
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RIP Hughesy
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In a scathing speech on Wednesday, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union charged that racism and "rich white people" are to blame for the immense financial crisis facing the Chicago Public Schools.
In her remarks to an audience at the upscale City Club of Chicago, union boss Karen Lewis strongly criticized Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. She also urged the city schools to follow the strategic blueprint of the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
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Young Tennessee has a year to remember
Posted: December 06, 2012|
YOUNG Llanelli kickboxer Tennessee Randall has had a year to remember.
The sport of kickboxing is split into two disciplines, semi-contact and light continuous, and 14-year-old Tennessee has dominated in both.
Since January the Coedcae pupil from Bynea has won the WAKO British title along with the under-16 British ring title, the famous Irish and Bristol Opens, the CIMAC World Cup, the KWON Grand Slam and the WTKA European title in Austria.
A busy year was topped off in Italy last month when she won yet more world titles.
In the last three years Tennessee has won world titles in three different organisations, bringing her total to 11.
Regarded as one of the best fighters in the world at under-16 level, she even won a senior team title in Italy fighting as part of a three-woman team with Ashley Brace and Rachel House after they beat Venezuela in the final.
This year's success has come down to hard work and dedication. Tennessee travels to Ebbw Vale and Cardiff a couple of times a week to join up with her club Storm and her world-renowned instructor Ashley Brace.
She also trains at the Robert Davies Gym in Dafen with boxing coach Nigel Haddock and at Penyrheol Boxing Club in Gorseinon where she has shown so much progress she is due to have her first boxing match this month.
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Adjust the boot code to boot from either a root with a /boot, or directly from a /boot partition (which will look like '/' to the loader). These changes allow you to make your 'a' partition a /boot only partition. Your /boot/loader.conf would then have a directive to tell the kernel where the root partition is, e.g.: vfs.root.mountfrom="hammer:${disk}s1d" * Add a chdir() hack and rel_open() that uses the chdir base. * chdir("/boot")... if it exists. * Change all config and most other paths to be relative * boot2 does not have access to the chdir() hack. Adjust boot2 to look for the loader as both "/loader" and "/boot/loader".
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I gave this to my 5 year old nephew who has never been to preschool so this was his first 'formal' science lesson. I had done most of these experiments as I am a preschool teacher, but I always had to run around to find the supplies needed. This made it so EASY!I set this up on a picnic table outside to do with my nephew on his birthday, but we were soon joined by his sisters, 2nd and 4th grade. We did the volcano and some color mixing. I taught them the correct names for the pieces and they couldn't get enough. I wish I had more time to do more with them. They were so excited and so was I.Unfortunately I live 2 hours away so I have to hope their mother will do these experiments with them. It is such an awesome set and I don't think anyone will be disappointed with it!
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I bought this for my 5 year old daughter and we love it! I love that it includes experiment cards. We've done just about all of them and love each one.All the materials in this kit are easy for kids to handle which weeds out frustration. I can't say enough about this kit! We have other LR products and they are all great!
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This is a very sturdy, and easy to use set. Great for 3 - 5 year olds. My daughter loves it! The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that are a few flaws.1) The test tube lid is not leak proof. Which is usually not a problem but can be with vigorous shaking.2) None of the 10 projects use the flask.3) Some of the projects include steps that are impossible. For example, it will tell you to use the tweezers to remove something from the test tube, but the tweezers do not fit in the test tube. These flaws, notwithstanding, I do love the set.
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ORANGEBURG -- South Carolina State University launched its Homecoming weekend Friday with an entirely different kind of homecoming.
The university's I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium opened the exhibit From Africa to Gullah II. The exhibit features the artifacts, photographs and texts of Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner, the nation's first black linguist. Turner taught briefly at the Orangeburg university in the 1930s.
While working at S.C. State, South Carolina's only public historically black university, Turner heard the Gullah language for the first time. He was the first in the academic community to acknowledge Gullah as an actual, distinct language. He then conducted extensive research, and connected it to languages spoken in West Africa and Brazil.
Before Turner's research, the speech of the Gullah and Geechee people of Georgia and South Carolina was dismissed as poor English or baby talk, said Ellen Zisholtz, the museum's director. Turner's work taught the world much about the migration of people from West Africa to other parts of the world, she said.
S.C. State senior Davion Petty, who's from Gaffney, said the exhibit demonstrates to him the importance of remembering history. The history of the Gullah and Geechee people isn't prominent in textbooks, he said.
"You have to do your own research, and come to events like this," he said. "You have to dig down deep and discover this for yourself."
The university's museum is well-known for such exhibits.
Zisholtz recently learned the museum was a recipient of this year's Governor's Award in the Humanities. It will receive that award Wednesday.
The exhibit of Turner's work first appeared at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum. U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the U.S. House assistant Democratic leader, saw it and was impressed. He contributed money from the James E. and Emily E. Clyburn Endowment for Archives & History to take the exhibit on the road for the next two years.
S.C. State is the exhibit's first stop outside Washington, D.C. And the I.P. Stanback Museum has enhanced it with an archival poster exhibit of the work of Gullah artist Jonathan Green.
Clyburn and Green both spoke at the opening event, which also featured a performance by the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters from McIntosh County, Ga.
Green encouraged people who attended to support arts in schools.
"The arts are not an obligation of the government, but an obligation of the people," he said. They are an important vehicle to preserving and teaching culture, he said, and they desperately need support. "You can't depend on a government to support your own culture."
S.C. State senior Janique Francis, who's from Trinidad and Tobago, also was impressed with the exhibit. People often mistake her Caribbean accent, and ask her if she's of Gullah descent from the Charleston area. So she was thrilled to get a look at the exhibit, which connected the Gullah language to other parts of the world.
She sees many connections between the Gullah culture and that of her homeland. The speech, the baskets and especially the food are similar, she said. "Eating the food, it's like I'm home."
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From October 11th to 12th the greatest Catan players in the world will gather in the heart of Berlin. Including 2012's Catan World champion, the 2013 European champion, the 2013 North American champion and the representatives of 33 countries. Soon these contestants will compete to determine who is the best of the best and deserves the crown of Catan World Champion. The Catan World Championship (CWC) takes place every two years, either in Germany or in the USA. This year, Berlin was chosen as the host city. The 2014 international event will be organized and carried out by KOSMOS GmbH, the German language publisher of "Catan" since its first release in 1995. Klaus Teuber's worldwide hit "The Settlers of Catan" and its expansions have sold over 20 million units and have been translated into more than 30 languages. In addition to the classic Catan board game, Catan expansions, and Catan special edition product, players may enjoy still more Catan fun with Catan card games, dice games and computer games or apps. The host for this year's events will be the Museum of Communication. Founded in 1872 and located in the heart of Berlin, the museum is near such historic landmarks as Brandenberger Tor, Checkpoint Charlie, Gendarmenmarkt and Friedrichstrasse. A beautiful location in one of the great metropolises of the world, with the best players playing one of the greatest games of all time. The 2014 CWC is the event you won't want to miss.


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LAKE PLACID - The Winter Sports capital of the world is about to become a center for young people looking to show off their summertime outdoor cooking skills.
Lake Placid's fourth annual I Love Barbecue Festival will host the inaugural I Love Barbecue Junior World Championships during its July 4 weekend run this summer.
The event, which is the first-ever major youth competition sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society, is open to youth 16 to 21 years of age.
"The competition is designed to energize young barbeque enthusiasts and culinary students at the high school, vocational and college levels," said ILBBQF organizer Dmitry Feld, who first suggested adding the Junior World Barbecue Championship event as part of the weekend festival.
Seven teams have registered for the ILBJWC so far, including groups from New York, New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Illinois.
"It puts Lake Placid and ILBBQF on another level of American Barbecue competition and culinary arts in general," said Feld. "Visitors will be able to observe junior teams in action. It will also bring families and friends to Lake Placid to support their teams."
Up to 24 teams are allowed to compete, and are responsible for bringing their own barbeque pits, grills and tools. They will be judged on preparation of three meats, grilled vegetables, a starch and a dessert. Adults may accompany the participants but may not be involved in the food preparation in any way.
The overall winning team will be named Junior World Barbecue Champions and receive $1,000 in cash and prizes. $500 prizes are awarded to both the second and third place teams while another $3,000 will be split between the top five teams in each of four food categories.
As if the prize money were not enough, Paul Smith's College will award thousands of dollars in scholarships to members of the top teams. Members of the team placing first will each receive a $10,000 scholarship; second place team members will receive $6,000 scholarships, and third place winners will receive $4,000 each.
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The Missouri Mission of Mercy (MOMOM) is a large-scale dental clinic that provides free oral healthcare to patients of all ages who cannot otherwise afford care. MOM events across America have been providing free dental services for the underserved since 2000. These clinics have helped more than 100,000 patients and provided nearly $50 million in free dental services since inception. Thanks to dedicated volunteers and generous sponsors the inaugural Missouri Mission of Mercy was a great success. More than $1.1 million of free care was provided to 1,856 patients by our 1,046 dental and general volunteers. MOMOM will be visiting Cape Girardeau at the Show Me Center on May 3 & 4, 2013.
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