Word: maria
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Postmodern directors have been shaking up grand opera for quite a while, especially in European cities like Hamburg, where this production was first unveiled in 1990. But rarely has opera received a shaking like this. The victim is Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz (The Free-Shooter). First performed in 1821, it was the granddaddy of all German Romantic operas, with its setting of a folktale about a forester who accepts magic bullets from the Devil to win the hand of his beloved in a shooting contest. For Waits, Burroughs and Wilson, what the opera provided wasn...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
Other speakers include Maria Herrera-Sobek, visiting professor of women's studies and folklore and mythology, and Chuey Negrete, director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Chicago...
Starting at 5 p.m., students will be cooking dinner, preparing the shelter dining room, chatting with guests, setting up beds and "playing cards," said Maria P. Rogahn '95, director of volunteers. Night shift workers will stay in the shelter from 11 p.m. until 6:30 a.m. to counsel guests and ensure that the shelter runs smoothly...