“You’re fully illegal when you operate in a place where mining is banned ... but since that cultural heritage restriction no longer exists, they’re no longer in violation — they’ll need to formalize their operations,” Montero said in a press conference in Lima on Tuesday for correspondents working for the international media.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Near the end of “This House,” a heart-wrenching opera given its world premiere last weekend, the matriarch Ida poignantly intones messages to her family on stage and to the audience.“History’s the only thing to survive,” soprano Adrienne Danrich sings before adding: “You may have left us, but we will never leave you.”
A rumination on love, aspiration, coping and the unyielding weight of the past, the roughly two-hour work that opened Saturday night at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis mixes the living and ghosts ambiguously in a Harlem brownstone.Ricky Ian Gordon’s lush score brings to vivid life a libretto by Lynn Nottage and her daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber, weaving impacts of the Civil War, Great Migration, Black Power movement, AIDS crisis and gentrification. There are five more performances through June 29.’I just wanted to be able to tell all of these really important moments in Black history,” Gerber said, “but as they relate to one family up into the current moment, so that there is not this erasure as if the past was the past, which I think increasingly now, especially as we see more and more censorship of Black history, is kind of this pervasive narrative.”
Now 27, Gerber started “This House” as a play in 2020 during her senior year at Brown while the coronavirus pandemic unfolded. Her mother, the only woman to win a pair of Pulitzer Prizes for drama, for “Ruined” and” suggested Gerber adapt it with her into an opera composed by Gordon, Nottage’s partner on
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Opera Theater of St. Louis commissioned “This House” for its 50th anniversary festival season as its 45th world premiere.with Minnesota. The two-time Pro Bowl pick set a league record for position players with 282 consecutive games played, a mark held by Marshall until quarterback Brett Favre broke it, coincidentally, with the Vikings in 2010.
“No player in Vikings history lived the ideals of toughness, camaraderie and passion more than the all-time iron man,” Vikings owners Mark Wilf and Zygi Wilf said in a statement distributed by the team. “A cornerstone of the franchise from the beginning, Captain Jim’s unmatched durability and quiet leadership earned the respect of teammates and opponents throughout his 20-year career. Jim led by example, and there was no finer example for others to follow. His impact on the Vikings was felt long after he left the field. Jim will always be remembered as a tremendous player and person. Our hearts are with his wife, Susan, and all of Jim’s loved ones.”Though sacks weren’t officially tracked by the NFL until 1982,
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