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...night devoted to singing, and the cast, conducted by the company's music director, James Levine, was a rich international assemblage that included the splendid Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow as the gentle maiden Elsa, the fiery Hungarian soprano Eva Marton as the scheming Ortrud and the hearty Danish bass Aage Haugland as King Henry the Fowler. Most notable of all, as Lohengrin, the mysterious knight of the Holy Grail, it featured Placido Domingo on one of his rare forays into the German repertoire. What looked at first like a mismatch turned out to be a gamble that paid...
...case encapsulates all the ambiguities more dramatically than that of the late Mario and Elsa Rios, a Los Angeles couple whose orphaned embryos now lie in a freezer in Melbourne, Australia. Doctors there had removed several of Mrs. Rios' eggs in 1981, then fertilized them with sperm from an anonymous donor. Some were implanted in Mrs. Rios, and the remaining two were frozen. "You must keep them for me," she said. The implant failed, and the couple later died in a plane crash in Chile. Australian laws grant no "rights" to the two frozen embryos, but though local officials...
...unsettled estate-and the frozen assets-was that of Mario and Elsa Rios, a Los Angeles couple who made a fortune in real estate. In 1978, after Elsa's ten-year-old daughter by a previous marriage accidentally shot herself, the disconsolate couple sought to have another child. Unable to conceive by natural means, they turned, in 1981, to Melbourne's pioneering IVF program. Because Rios, then 54, was infertile, doctors used sperm from an anonymous donor to fertilize a number of eggs taken from his 37-year-old wife. Several were implanted, and two spares were frozen...
...April 1983, the couple died in a plane crash in Chile, leaving no wills. Under California law, Michael Rios, Mario's son by an earlier marriage, is entitled to his father's share of the estate. Elsa's share goes to her 65-year-old mother. The discovery of the embryos has, however, raised a number of questions. Do they, for example, have any rights of inheritance? To whom do they belong, and who has jurisdiction over their fate? Most basic of all, do they have a right to life...
...will emerge as the leaders on the three-time defending Ivy champions became a little clearer last night, when Lucy Chubb, Ellen Velie, Elsa Black, Andy Mainelli, Alicia Clifton, Abby Ames and Blair Wardenburg all netted goals to give the Crimson its first win of the year...