Word: liberata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play Amadeus recently won five Tony Awards. Mozart last year led all composers in the number of new listings in the Schwann record catalogue, and record companies are assiduously exploring the nooks and crannies of the composer's output in search of further repertory-the oratorio La Betulia Liberata, for example, or the opera Mitridate, Re di Ponto, both written when Mozart was an adolescent. In addition, music of the classical period has become the frontier of performance scholarship; original-instrument versions of Mozart are now appearing, led by the Academy of Ancient Music's formidable project...
...year-old woman named Liberata (the name, appropriately, means "liberated") was trapped with her mother for 72 hours after their home collapsed. She described the experience in a moving television interview: "We hugged each other helplessly. In the darkness, we tried to scrape away the dirt and make a space in which to breathe. Mother prayed and I heard her say, 'Oh God, let me die an hour before my daughter because I could not stand to see her die.' We spoke of many things, important things. When they pulled us out, I felt my mother...