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Metropolitan Opera broadcast of March 7, 1998: Madama Butterfly
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BROADCAST OF MARCH 7, 1998
SPONSORED BY TEXACO OVER THE TEXACO-METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK, 1:30 P.M.
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the play by David Belasco
THE STORY
ACT I. On a flowering terrace above Nagasaki harbor, U.S. Navy lieutenant B. E Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker, Goro, who has procured him servants and a geisha wife, Cio-Cio-San, known as Madama Butterfly. The American consul, Sharpless, arrives, and Pinkerton describes the carefree philosophy of a sailor roaming the ...
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop; How Nicolaus Steno Solved an Ancient Mystery and Created a Science of the Earth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt
; ...seashell on the mountaintop; how Nicolaus Steno solved an ancient mystery and created...452-28546-1. $14.00. A Nicolaus Steno is often called the founder...Seashell on the Mountaintop is Nicolaus Steno's remarkable story and...
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Herz, Gott, Kreuz: Die Spiritualität des Anatomen, Geologen und Bischofs Dr. Med. Niels Stensen (1638-86)
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...mentioned above, the approach to Steno's spirituality is systematic. Steno was, however, no systematic...in which to situate all of Steno's spiritual writings (treatises...key-text, the so-called Nicolaus Steno's prayer (in Latin...
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...Pp.xii, 228. $23.95.) Nicolaus Steno studied medicine in his native Denmark...where he met G. W. Leibniz. Steno's skills in dissection were legendary...Descartes, a powerful influence on Steno from early on. Steno also explained...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Man who left no stone unturned; Critic's choice.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...and have never heard of the man, Nicolaus Steno, a Dane who worked at the Court...were blinded by religious dogma. Steno lived at a time of intellectual...was only 30-odd years later that Nicolaus Steno ran into the same opposition...
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Plumbing the depths of time Graham Farmelo on Lives of two pioneering geologists who showed just how old planet Earth really is
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...the previous century - the Danish scholar Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686). The diminutive, soft-spoken Steno began his career as an acclaimed anatomist...finally joining the priesthood. It was Steno who first explained why seashells could...
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The War That Wasn't; Science and Religion Have Often Stood Together
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...and encountered the story of Danish geologist Nicolaus Steno. Just decades after Galileo, Steno sparked a major revolution in scientific thought...inherent hostility between science and the church. Steno was primarily an anatomist, but he is best...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Books: Leisure reading
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...he details the life and history of Nicolaus Steno -- a 17th-century scientist credited...formed layer upon layer, Cutler tells Steno's story through short chapters...interesting and readable as he weaves Steno's story with historical quotes...
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...In 1668, a Danish scientist named Nicolaus Steno published a 78-page book outlining...set the course of modern geology. Steno was an established anatomist by the...Cutler weaves a compelling portrait of Steno's accomplishments on both fronts...
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Confessio Philosophi, Papers Concerning the Problem of Evil, 1671-1678.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...include a 1677 conversation between Leibniz and Nicolaus Steno concerning topics related to the Confessio...some of which may have been written for Steno. An added bonus is that Sleigh has included Steno's marginal comments to the Confessio...
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A passion for rocks.(The Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events that Shaped Out Earth)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; ...remembered'. Thus we hear all about Nicolaus Steno, darling of the 17th-century Medici court in Florence. Steno is often hailed as the founding father...laughably obvious' notion, but Steno was the first to articulate it...
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