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...work is the fruit of a genuine romance between the opera's composer, longtime Costello keyboardist Steve Nieve, and the writer and psychoanalyst Muriel Teodori, who wrote the Franco-English libretto. First released as a Deutsche Grammophon recording in 2007, the opera recounts the story of Greek immigrant steelworker Dionysos (played by a bearded Sting), who falls in love with an opera diva, much to the consternation of his blue-collar buddies. His stalker-like obsession nearly gets him incarcerated by the police commissioner (a hulking, black-robed Costello), but with a little supernatural intervention by the ghosts of operas...
...Sting, a singer who grew up delivering milk early mornings with his father in the coal mining and shipbuilding town of Wallsend, England, those themes of class struggle drew him to his character. "There's the Dionysos archetype from Greek mythology, and then there's this communist steelworker who falls in love with the opera - that's the story I'm telling really," he says. "I know what it's like to be an outsider, I know what it's like to be working class and entering the halls of the bourgeois. It's our story really...
...exam requires students to be able to translate and analyze a variety of canonical Latin and Greek texts on sight, including portions of Herodotus’ Histories, Homer’s Iliad, and Virgil’s Eclogues...
Schiefsky said that he did not want the prospect of general exams to scare away potential concentrators, especially those who did not study Latin or Greek in high school...
...order to make the Classics more appealing to students without previous exposure to Latin and Greek, the department may eliminate its rigorous six-hour general examinations and create a specialization in classical civilizations...