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Asmik Grigorian & Iurii Samoilov in Eugene Onegin (Metropolitan Opera, 2026)

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Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

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Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

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Lakota/Teton Sioux dress made by Ah-ho-appa, daughter of Spotted Tail, ca. 1870. In the Met Museum collections

Vertical lanes of beadwork, in place of the typical horizontal configuration, give this dress its distinctive character. The U-shaped motif at the lower center represents Turtle, a symbol of power relating to women’s health. Like most bead workers in the mid-nineteenth century, this maker favored tiny glass Venetian seed beads over the larger pony beads popular in earlier periods. Today, women wear elaborately beaded dresses reminiscent of this one for the Women’s Traditional Dance, one of several categories in powwow competitions.

Geography: Possibly made in North Dakota, United States; Possibly made in South Dakota, United States

Culture: Lakota/ Teton Sioux, Native American

Medium: Tanned leather and glass beads

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Portrait of Lady Sunderland, (details), (1786), by Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723 – 1792), oil on canvas, 238.5 cm (93.8 in) x 147.5 cm (58 in), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

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Misty spring.

Saitama, Japan.

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Carpathian Mountains, Romania...

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Spring in the Carpathian Mountains by Alexandru Jitaru

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Quant au douanier, c’est notre affaire!

Elīna Garanča as Carmen, Elizabeth Caballero as Frasquita, and Sandra Piques Eddy as Mercédès in Carmen (Met 2011)

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BIZET: Carmen | Act 4: Vive, vive! Escamillo! Metropolitan Opera, 2010

Elīna GARANČA as Carmen  Teddy Tahu RHODES as Escamillo

OPERA IN HISTORY - March 3 On this day in 1875, Bizet’s iconic opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

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Leporello in the Royal Opera House Don Giovanni (2019)

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Handel's Rodelinda (Garsington Opera, 2025)

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Ceiling of the synagogue in Szeged, Hungary.

The emancipation of Hungarian Jews in the 1860s manifested itself in many synagogues built at the end of the century, which constituted sacred centres of the empire. Such were the great synagogues of Budapest, Pozsony/Bratislava (Slovakia), Nagyvárad/Oradea (Romania) or Szeged, whose Moorish/ Oriental style refer to the thousands of years of Jewish history. Or the impressive synagogues of the great Hungarian plains, Hódmezővásárhely, and, above all, Szabadka/Subotica (Serbia), which used the motifs of the “Hungarian Art Nouveau”, devised by the architects of Budapest, for the expression of their identification with the Hungarian nation.

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HYDROGEN BOMB

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Franz Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118

Jessye Norman, Soprano Phillip Norman 1985

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