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OPERA REVIEW
‘Oscar’ unveiled at Santa Fe Opera By James M. Keller The New Mexican
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n Saturday evening, The Santa Fe Opera offered the world premiere of Oscar, a two-act work by Theodore Morrison, who penned the libretto jointly with the British opera director John Cox. Prior to Oscar, SFO had premiered 13 operas since its found-
From left, David Daniels, Heidi Stober and William Burden stage a scene from Oscar, a new work that debuted Saturday. COURTESY KEN HOWARD/THE SANTA FE OPERA
ing in 1956. Most were launched in a flurry of excitement and optimism but then receded from view, living on as minor footnotes to operatic history. The 14th opera on the list has an excellent chance of following this time-honored tradition. It will at least be repeated in 2015, when it figures on the schedule of Opera Company of Philadelphia, which jointly commissioned it
with Santa Fe. I don’t doubt that the countertenor David Daniels, who the work was written to showcase, will put his shoulder to promoting it beyond then; and he may be joined in that effort by other countertenors because it provides them with an extended starring role. But in the long run, an opera must sink or swim on its own merits, and I must leave it to others to be hopeful about
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the buoyancy of this one. Oscar Wilde’s caustic wit made him a darling of late-Victorian salon society, but this opera focuses instead on the low point of his life. Manipulated by his boyfriend, Bosie, into suing Bosie’s father for libel (the father had asserted publicly that Oscar and Bosie were lovers), Wilde not
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Fruits of growing efforts on display Tour showcases kitchen gardens, chicken coops and backyard livestock By Adele Oliveira The New Mexican
If you drove by Melissa Willis and Kim Brown’s house on Calle Serena, just off Rodeo Road, you’d have no idea that their small lot (an eighth of an acre) grew more than 500 pounds of produce during the 2012 season. Willis and Brown were novice gardeners when they moved into their home six years ago, and through Internet research, reading books and trial and error, the two now have more than 400 square feet of established growing space, plus 15 chickens. Willis and Brown’s home was one of six stops on a kitchen garden and coop tour hosted by Home Grown New Mexico, a 2-year-old community group on its way to becoming a nonprofit. This is the tour’s third year, and it aims to promote “community homesteading” — growing food and raising animals like chicken, goats and bees — even in the heart of Santa Fe. Last year, 415 people attended the tour, which cost $35. A similar tour will take place in Corrales on Aug. 11. “We found that there wasn’t any-
ABOVE: Technical Area 41 is home to the Ice House and the LANL Tunnel Vault. Fred Reines, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics for this work, began his experiments in 1951 with Clyde Cowan in a side room in the vault, which was an underground storage area for nuclear materials and fuels.
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PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Today
Lab celebrates 70 years of research, looks ahead to mark yet to be made
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Obituaries
By Roger Snodgrass For The New Mexican
Monica L. Augustine, July 24 Filadelfio “Fil” Esquibel, 95, July 24
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ike the weather, the ocean or any other elemental force, Los Alamos National Laboratory represents many different hopes and fears, all depending on one’s point of view. With some 11,000 employees and a budget exceeding $2 billion a year, the national security science complex sprawls over 36 square miles of finger-like mesas overlooking distant Santa Fe. Its creation story, the making of the atomic bomb, is enshrined in national legend. The mysteries, foibles and spies that have troubled the topsecret facility still fascinate the world. Today, the Department of Energy’s center of excellence for plutonium is the only place in the country that can still make the nuclear pits at the core of hydrogen bombs that arm the Pentagon’s missiles, submarines and bombers. LANL is involved in what could easily be called the most dangerous business in the world. The lab celebrated its 70th anniversary last week with nostalgic memories, memorable talks, community visits and employee reunions. LANL Director Charles McMillan opened the first day of an anniversary conference (the second day was devoted to classified subjects) by recalling
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ABOVE: Ross McDonald speaks about magnetic coils at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Pulsed Field Facility in Los Alamos on Tuesday. LEFT: The lab’s Neutron Scattering Center is home to a halfmile-long underground accelerator beam.
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Pasapick Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Free 10 a.m. youth concert; 6 p.m. evening concert, Beethoven Septet & Brahms Trio, tickets available at the SFCMF box office, 982-1890, santafechambermusic.com, or 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. 107 W. Palace Ave. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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