Giovanni Donati Discovered Great Comet of 1858 Wednesday, June 2, 1858

Summary: Italian 19th-century astronomer and comet discoverer Giovanni Donati discovered the Great Comet of 1858 Wednesday, June 2, 1858, from Florence, Italy.

Comet Donati (C/1858 L1; 1858 VI) on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 1858, the day on which the long-period comet's discover, 19th-century Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati, was promoted from assistant (aide-astronome) to assistant astronomer (astronome-adjoint) at La Specula in Florence, Italy; steel engraving of Comet of Donati of 1858 as it appeared Sep. 29, 1858, 7:00 p.m. MST, from Observatory of Harvard College, in G.P. Bond, Account of the Great Comet of 1858 (1862), Plate VII, between pages 26 and 27: Not in copyright, via Internet Archive

Italian 19th-century astronomer and comet discoverer Giovanni Battista Donati discovered the Great Comet of 1838, popularly namesaked Comet Donati or Donati's Comet, on Wednesday, June 2, 1858, from La Specola in Florence, Italy.

La Specola (Italian; "astronomical observatory") was constructed between 1780 and 1789 at the initiative of Leopold II (May 5, 1747-March 1, 1792), who reigned Sep. 30, 1790, until his death as the second-to-last Holy Roman Emperor (Latin: Romanorum Imperator; German: Römisch-Deutscher Kaiser) and the second of three from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The observatory was built as an annex to the Imperial Regio Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale (The Imperial-Royal Museum for Physics and Natural History), which had opened in 1785. The scientific complex was located in the former Palazzo Torrigiani, at 17, via Romana, in the Oltrarno quarter on the Arno River's left, south bank.

Giovanni Donati (Dec. 16, 1826-Sep. 20, 1873) made his discovery at 10:00 p.m. He telescopically discerned the new comet as a "faint nebulosity" in Leo the Lion constellation, according to co-authors Antonella Gasperini and Daniele Galli of Arcetri Observatory (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) and Laura Nenzi of the University of Tennessee's Department of History in "The worldwide impact of Donati’s comet on art and society in the mid-19th century" (page 340), published in Symposia Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union in January 2009.

Donati sighted the cometary solar system traveler near Leo's head, as described (page 126) by Ronald Stoyan in Atlas of Great Comets, published as first English edition, translated by Storm Dunlop, in 2015. The Sickle asterism, configured as a backward question mark, represents the head and shoulders of the starry lion.

At the time of his cometary discovery, Donati was employed at La Specola as an assistant (aide-astronome) to the observatory's director, Italian astronomer, engineer and optical instrument maker Giovanni Battista Amici (March 25, 1786-April 10, 1863). He had been appointed to La Specola on Sunday, Aug. 1, 1852, and had been promoted to the assistantship in October 1854. His great discovery in June led to his promotion, less than four months later, to assistant astronomer (astronome-adjoint) on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 1858. On Thursday, Dec. 22, 1859, approximately nine and one-half months after Comet Donati's last visibility, Donati was appointed to La Specula's directorship, according to Royal Greenwich Observatory astronomer Edwin Dunkin (Aug. 19, 1821-Nov. 26, 1898) in his obituary (page 153) on Donati, published in the February 1974 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (pages 153-155).

Donati's June discovery initially was designated as 1858 VI. Its official designation is C/1858 L1. Comet Donati and Donati's Comet are its popular designations.

Donati's June discovery numbered as his fourth cometary find. His first cometary discovery happened Sunday, June 4, 1854. He sighted his second discovered comet, C/1855 L1 Donati, on Sunday, June 3, 1855, and his third, C/1857 V1 Donati-van Arsdale, on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1857. After his Great Comet of 1858, Donati brought his career total of discovered comets to six. He sighted his fifth comet, C/1864 O1 Donati-Toussaint, on Saturday, July 23, 1864, and sixth comet, C/1864 R1 Donati, on Friday, Sep. 9, 1864 (Obituary, page 154).

Donati's Comet became a naked-eye apparition as of Thursday, Aug. 19, 1858. Its lengthy naked-eye visibility lasted through Saturday, Dec. 4, 1858 (page 131), according to "The Earliest Comet Photographs: Usherwood, Bond, and Donati 1858," published in the May 1996 issue of Journal for the History of Astronomy by Jay Myron Pasachoff (July 1, 1943-Nov. 20, 2022), Williams College's Astronomy Department and Hopkins Observatory; Roberta J. M. (Jeanne Marie) Olson, Wheaton College's Art History Department; and Martha L. (Locke) Hazen (July 15, 1931-Dec. 23, 2006), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Comet Donati's telescopically visual passage continued through March 1859. Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope, Irish-born South African astronomer Sir Thomas Maclear (March 17, 1794-July 14, 1879), reported the great comet's last telescopic sighting in "Observations of Donati's Comet, made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, between October 11th, 1858, and March 4th, 1859," published in volume 29 of Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Orbital observations were recorded by Sir Thomas, his son, George William Herschel "G.W.H." Maclear (July 25, 1836-June 26, 1892) and his assistant, British astronomer William Mann (Oct. 25, 1817-April 30, 1873). Mann's observations via an 8 1/2-inch equatoreal, "which comprehended the whole interval of visibility, commencing on the 11th of October and ending on the 4th of March following." Sir Thomas and his son shared a 46-inch equatoreal, which was usable from Saturday, Oct. 16, to Monday, Nov. 15, "when the comet became too faint to be observed with that instrument armed with a spider-line micrometer" (pages 59-60).

The comet's faintness in February 1859 troubled Mann's observations. On Sunday, Feb. 27, he stated: "Difficult; the comet repeatedly obliterated by cloud." In his last note, Monday, Feb. 28, Mann reported: "Compelled to wait until the comet was separated sufficiently from a star of 12th magnitude. It was then too law and faint to allow of satisfactory measurement" (page 73).

Last observation of Donati's Comet occurred Friday, March 4, 1859, at 08:39:59.4 Cape Mean Time as the cosmic snowball's faintness and distance from Southern Hemisphere telescopic visibility increased. Mann recorded Comet Donati's last-known position at right ascension (RA) 22 hours 32 minutes 5.27 seconds, North Polar Distance (N.P.D.) 152 degrees 5 minutes 1.33 seconds (page 72).

portrait of 19th-century Italian astronomer and comet discoverer Giovanni Battista Donati by Italian artist Adolfo Matarelli (1832-1887): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Comet Donati (C/1858 L1; 1858 VI) on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 1858, the day on which the long-period comet's discover, 19th-century Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati, was promoted from assistant (aide-astronome) to assistant astronomer (astronome-adjoint) at La Specula in Florence, Italy; steel engraving of Comet of Donati of 1858 as it appeared Sep. 29, 1858, 7:00 p.m. MST, from Observatory of Harvard College, in G.P. Bond, Account of the Great Comet of 1858 (1862), Plate VII, between pages 26 and 27: Not in copyright, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/accountofgreatco00bonduoft/page/41/mode/1up

portrait of 19th-century Italian astronomer and comet discoverer Giovanni Battista Donati by Italian artist Adolfo Matarelli (1832-1887): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GB_Donati.jpg

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David Warriner Anglicizes Winterkill From Vetrarmein By Way of Sigló

Summary: David Warriner anglicizes Winterkill from Vetrarmein, sixth thriller in the Dark Iceland sextet by Ragnar Jónasson, by way of the French edition Sigló.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

English-born French-English translator David Warriner acknowledges not only his Norman French ancestry but perhaps also his Norse ancestors with his agility in anglicizing the thriller Winterkill from the Icelandic original Vetrarmein of Ragnar Jónasson by way of the French edition Sigló. The de Warriner family of Norman, northern France acquired the surname Warriner in Norman-assailed England after the Battle of Hastings (Oct. 24, 1066). The Warriner bloodline ascends back to Rollo (Latinized from Hrólfr, “fame wolf” literally, 835/870?-928-933?), Nordic attacker of Ireland, Scotland and Seine River settlements until acclaimed as Christian convert and Count of Rouen in 911 by French King Charles III (Sep. 17, 879-Oct. 7, 929); 2003-09-08 11:17:21, image of shield-shaped harness mount, arms of de Warenne family, by Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter (Fæ): The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

David Warriner anglicizes Winterkill from Vetrarmein, sixth thriller in the Dark Iceland sextet about Siglufjörður (Romanized Siglufjördur) Detective Inspector Ari Thór Arason by Ragnar Jónasson, by way of the French edition Sigló.

Winterkill brings closure to the six-book Dark Iceland series about Sigufjördur (“sailing fjord” literally) Detective Inspector Ari Thór Arason (“eagle thunder eagle’s son”) by Ragnar Jónasson. David Warriner completed the concluding book by consulting the French-language edition, Sigló, completed by Jean-Christophe Salaün from the Icelandic-language original by author, attorney, professor Ragnar Jónasson. The five preceding Siglufjördur-domiciled thrillers draw upon the translating skills, from Icelandic to English, of Quentin Bates, English-born author of English-language crime fiction and mystery novels.

Warriner, from the northern, opposite side of England from south-born Quentin Bates, elected French and German fluency even as Nordic culture endures in his native Yorkshire.

Warriner forebears from Garenne (“game-park, rabbit warren, wild rabbit”), Normandy, northern France, fought Anglo-Saxon English King Harold II (1022?-Oct. 14, 1066) at the Battle of Hastings.

Norman English King William I (1027/1028?-Sep. 9, 1087) gave William de Warenne (died June 24, 1088), relative through Rollo (835/870?-928-933?), the earldom of Surrey in 1087/1088. De Warenne held Norman French lands near Arques-la-Bataille and Bellencombre and Norman English lands and manors in such counties as Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex and Yorkshire. Rollo (Latinized from Hrólfr, “fame wolf”) invaded Scotland, Ireland and France until King Charles III (Sep. 17, 879-Oct. 7, 929) invested him as Count of Rouen.

Nordic bloodlines from Norman France and Nordic culture in Norse Yorkshire perhaps join in David Warriner journeying into anglicizing Winterkill from Vetrarmein by way of Sigló.

Family trip to Paris and undergraduate degree in Modern Languages, which keeps advanced translation options alongside spoken and written training, kindle Warriner as French- and German-knowledgeable.

Warriner lists among his professional memberships American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC), Translators Association (TA) and UK Society of Authors (SoA). L'Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec (OTTIAQ, Quebec Order of Translators, Terminologists and Certified Interpreters) mentions him as certified translator French to English. Warriner nestles into nice niches in Okanagan Valley at Penticton, from which city he numbers among the Society of Translators and Interpreters of British Columbia (STIBC).

W Translation’s advertising-, corporate health and wellness-, extreme sports event management-, finance-, insurance- and publishing-oriented operations occasioned Warriner anglicizing Winterkill from Vetrarmein by way of Sigló.

David Warriner passed from commercial proficiency as Mont-Sainte-Anne mountain guide, Beneva and SSQ Insurance translator-editor and La Capitale translation coordinator to fiction and non-fiction literary proficiency.

Run Better (Courir mieux) and A Sailor, a Chicken, an Incredible Voyage (Le Monde selon Guirec et Monique) qualify as first and recentest Warriner translations, 2017-2021. David Warriner released Alex and the Monsters (Alex et les monstres), Blood Song (Sång) and Rethink Chronic Pain (La douleur repensée) in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He supplied Winterkill (anglicized from Icelandic Vetrarmein via French Sigló), and On Being a Bear (L’Ours) and The Coral Bride (La mariée de corail) in 2021.

Perhaps Norman France and Norse England triggered David Warriner turning Guirec Soudée’s Le monde selon Guirec et Monique into A Sailor, a Chicken, an Incredible Voyage.

French-English translator David Warriner admits to acclimating himself to the westernmost Canadian province of British Columbia. He appreciates the cold semi-arid, humid continental, oceanic climate affording him summer seasons as attractive, and winter seasons nowhere near as aggressive, as what respectively appeals to and afflicts main character Ari Thór Arason ("eagle thunder eagle's son") in Winterkill (anglicized from the Icelandic-language Vetrarmein by Ragnar Jónasson through the French-language translation Sigló by Jean-Christophe Salaün. Lock & Worth Winery attracts attention with its single-vineyard, small-production wines, of which its Merlot red wines perhaps are as attractive to Ari Thór as rauðvín (Romanized raudvín, "red wine") available in downtown Siglufjörður (Romanized Siglufjördur, “sailing fjord” literally); Friday, April 18, 2014, view of Naramata Bench across Lake Okanagan from Lock & Worth Winery, 1060 Poplar Grove Road, Penticton, Okanagan Valley, south central British Columbia, western Canada: Ben Cappellacci, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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English-born French-English translator David Warriner acknowledges not only his Norman French ancestry but perhaps also his Norse ancestors with his agility in anglicizing the thriller Winterkill from the Icelandic original Vetrarmein of Ragnar Jónasson by way of the French edition Sigló. The de Warriner family of Norman, northern France acquired the surname Warriner in Norman-assailed England after the Battle of Hastings (Oct. 24, 1066). The Warriner bloodline ascends back to Rollo (Latinized from Hrólfr, “fame wolf” literally, 835/870?-928-933?), Nordic attacker of Ireland, Scotland and Seine River settlements until acclaimed as Christian convert and Count of Rouen in 911 by French King Charles III (Sep. 17, 879-Oct. 7, 929); 2003-09-08 11:17:21, image of shield-shaped harness mount, arms of de Warenne family, by Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter (Fæ): The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_harness_mount_(FindID_36534).jpg; CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Portable Antiquities Scheme Website / British Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales @ https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/36534

French-English translator David Warriner admits to acclimating himself to the westernmost Canadian province of British Columbia. He appreciates the cold semi-arid, humid continental, oceanic climate affording him summer seasons as attractive, and winter seasons nowhere near as aggressive, as what respectively appeals to and afflicts main character Ari Thór Arason ("eagle thunder eagle's son") in Winterkill (anglicized from the Icelandic-language Vetrarmein by Ragnar Jónasson through the French-language translation Sigló by Jean-Christophe Salaün. Lock & Worth Winery attracts attention with its single-vineyard, small-production wines, of which its Merlot red wines perhaps are as attractive to Ari Thór as rauðvín (Romanized raudvín, "red wine") available in downtown Siglufjörður (Romanized Siglufjördur, “sailing fjord” literally); Friday, April 18, 2014, view of Naramata Bench across Lake Okanagan from Lock & Worth Winery, 1060 Poplar Grove Road, Penticton, Okanagan Valley, south central British Columbia, western Canada: Ben Cappellacci, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_view_from_Lock_&_Worth_Winery.jpg; Ben Cappellacci (cappellacci), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/cappellacci/13907210276/

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Marriner, Derdriu. 23 May 2023. "Perhaps Falls Are Jumps in Winterkill, Anglicized From Vetrarmein." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 16 May 2023. "Harborside Rooms and Violent Deaths Add Stayover Traffic to Winterkill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 9 May 2023. "Whiteout, Anglicized From Andkör, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 2 May 2023. "Flaming Coffee Sambuca Acts as a Christmas Toast in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 25 April 2023. "Axel Sveinsson Lighthouses Add Jobs and Attract Tourists in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 18 April 2023. "Whiteout Admits Northern Landscapes Akin to Jón Stefánsson Paintings." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 11 April 2023. "Jóhann Jónsson Adds Autumn Flowers to Andköf, Anglicized as Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 April 2023. "A Baby Arrives Auspiciously in Whiteout, Anglicized From Andkör." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 28 March 2023. "A Northern Lighthouse Inadvertently Admits Adverse Traffic in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 21 March 2023. "Rupture, Anglicized From Rof, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 14 March 2023. "Coffees Appear Black or Milky, Poisoned or Sugary in Rupture." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 March 2023. "Rupture, Anglicized From Rof, Acknowledges Ásgrímur Jónsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 28 February 2023. "Thorleifur Ragnar Jónasson Acquaints Us With Adverse Areas in Rupture." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 21 February 2023. "Past Actions Affect Present Anxieties in Rupture, Anglicized From Rof." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 14 February 2023. "Tunnels Accelerate Justice and Traffic in Rupture, Anglicized From Rof." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 February 2023. "Icelandic Names and Words Are in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 31 January 2023. "Biscuits, Burgers, Chips, Dried Fish Appeal to Police in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 24 January 2023. "Thorleifur Ragnar Jónasson Accuratizes Volcanic Glaciers in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 17 January 2023. "Jón Gudmundsson the Learned Accounts for Poetic Advice in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 January 2023. "Seven Are Taciturn About Death in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 January 2023. "Summerhouses Add to Crime Rates in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 27 December 2022. "Nattblinda, as Nightblind, Appends a Poem by Freysteinn Gunnarsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 20 December 2022. "Nattblinda, as Nightblind, Appends Spring Returns to the Valley." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 13 December 2022. "Nattblinda, Anglicized Nightblind, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 6 December 2022. "Náttblinda, Anglicized Nightblind, Admits Fresh Buns, Coffee and Pizza." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 29 November 2022. "Thórbergur Thórdarson Assuages Anxiety in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 22 November 2022. "Thorsteinn Jónsson Advises All Are Astray in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 15 November 2022. "Abandoned Areas Are Awful for New Hires in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 8 November 2022. "Active Tunnels Adjust to Awful Weather in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 November 2022. "Snjóblinda, Anglicized Snowblind, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 25 October 2022. "Indian Rice Affirms Area Affluence in Snjóblinda, Anglicized Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 18 October 2022. "Kjarval Adorns a Retired Diplomat’s Walls in Snjóblinda, as Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 11 October 2022. "Gunnlaugur Blöndal Art Assuages Sailors in Snjóblinda, as Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 October 2022. "House and Job for Two Years Are Alluring in Snjóblinda, as Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 27 September 2022. "Locals and Tourists Adore Fish and Theatre in Snjóblinda, as Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 20 September 2022. "Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 13 September 2022. "Ham and Ptarmigan Are Christmas Meats in Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 6 September 2022. "Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died, Acquaints Us With Davíd Stefánsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 30 August 2022. "Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died, Alludes to Thorsteinn Th. Thorsteinsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 23 August 2022. "Five Deaths Affect 16 Lives in Thorpid, Anglicized The Girl Who Died." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 16 August 2022. "Ring Road Accesses Northeast Iceland for Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 9 August 2022. "Outside, Anglicized From Úti, Appends Party of Two." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 2 August 2022. "Outside, Anglicized From Úti, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 26 July 2022. "Icelandic Rock Ptarmigans Avoid Blizzards and Hunters in Outside." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 19 July 2022. "Veröld Accepted Icelandic Standalone Novel Úti, Anglicized Outside." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 12 July 2022. "Victoria Cribb Anglicizes Icelandic Standalone Novel Úti Into Outside." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 5 July 2022. "Four Friends and One Enemy Are Indoors in Outside, Anglicized from Úti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 28 June 2022. "Adverse Weather Afflicts East Iceland in Outside, Anglicized From Úti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 21 June 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized The Mist, Appends The Silence of the Falling Snow." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 14 June 2022. "Mistur, as The Mist, Appends Christmas Apples by Katrín Guðjónsdóttir." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 June 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized The Mist, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 31 May 2022. "Hulda Ate Icelandic Food Christmas Eve in Mistur, Anglicized The Mist." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 24 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized The Mist, Acknowledges Halldór Laxness at Christmas." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 17 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized as The Mist, Acquaints Us With Olaf Olafsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 May 2022. "Accidental and Violent Deaths Aggrieve Mistur, Anglicized as The Mist." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized as The Mist, Angles Ring Road Along Coastal Iceland." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 26 April 2022. "Drungi, Anglicized The Island, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 19 April 2022. "Drungi, Anglicized The Island, Allows Icelandic Cuisine Takeout Pizza." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 12 April 2022. "Drungi, Anglicized as The Island, Acquaints Us With Bessastadir." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 5 April 2022. "Drungi, Anglicized as The Island, Asks What Einar Benediktsson Avers." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 29 March 2022. "Seven Deaths Afflict One Detective in Drungi, Anglicized as The Island." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 22 March 2022. "Fjords and Isles Are Accessible in Drungi, Anglicized as The Island." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 15 March 2022. "Dimma, Anglicized The Darkness, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Is June 3, 2023, Saturday Radio Broadcast

Summary: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte is the June 3, 2023, Saturday matinee radio broadcast, airing as 23rd of the 2022-2023 season's 24 Saturday radio broadcasts.

The 2022-2023 Met Opera season's lineup of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts includes three Mozart operas, Idomeneo (upper right), Don Giovanni (lower left) and Die Zauberflöte (lower right): Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera, via Twitter Jan. 27, 2023

Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte is the June 3, 2023, Saturday matinee radio broadcast, airing at 1:00 p.m., Eastern Time, as the 23rd of the 2022-2023 Met Opera season's lineup of 24 Saturday matinee opera broadcasts.

Classical Era composer Wolfgang Mozart (Jan. 27, 1756-Dec. 5, 1791) set his musical score for Die Zauberflöte ("The Magic Flute") to a German libretto by Emanuel Schickaneder (Sep. 1, 1751-Sep. 21, 1812), stage name of Bavarian playwright and impresario Johann Joseph Schickeneder. Composer and librettist sourced their allegorical opera in their association with the fraternal organization of Freemasonry.

Die Zauberflöte premiered Friday, Sep. 30, 1791, at Schikaneder’s theater, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden, also known as Wiednertheater, near the center of Vienna, northeastern Austria. The fairy-tale opera numbered as the second Mozart opera with a Wiednertheater premiere and as the second collaboration with Schikaneder on the operatic genre of Singspiel (German: Singspiel, plural: Singspiele, "sing-play'), a German-language musical drama comprising singing and spoken dialogue. Their first fairy-tale Singspiel, Der Stein der Weisen, Oder die Zauberinsel (The Philosopher’s Stone, or the Enchanted Isle), had premiered Saturday, Sep. 11, 1790, at Schickaneder's theater.

Die Zauberflöte's Metropolitan Opera premiere took place Friday, March 30, 1900, at the opera company's first opera house, located at 1411 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Garment District. Sung in Italian, Il Flauto Magico received five performances in the 1899-1900 season.

The Metropolitan Opera debuts Simon McBurney's new production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in the 2022-2023 season. The English director made his Met Opera debut Friday, May 19, 2023, along with his new Mozart production in the opera company's 478th performance of Die Zauberflöte.

McBurney's new production receives nine performances in the 2022-2023 season. The new production opened Friday, May 19, at 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time. The second through fourth performances took place Monday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, May 27, at 8:00 p.m. The fifth through ninth, closing performances are scheduled for Wednesday, May 31, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee radio broadcast, June 3, at 1:00 p.m.; Tuesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, June 10, at 8:30 p.m.

Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the first three and fifth through ninth, closing performances, including the Saturday matinee radio broadcast June 3. The French conductor and contralto had made her Met Opera debut Friday, May 5, 2023, in opera company's 577th performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Maestro Stutzmann shares the conductorship with Gareth Morrell, who conducts the new production's fourth performance. The British conductor had made his Metropolitan Opera debut Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1999, in the opera company's 516th performance of Lucia di Lammermoor by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera composer Gaetano Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848).

Lawrence Brownlee appears in all nine performances as Prince Tamino, who is gifted with a magic flute and three spirit guides from three attendants of the Queen of the Night for his journey to rescue the Queen's daughter, Princess Pamina, from her supposed captor, Sarastro. The American operatic tenor had made his Met Opera debut Thursday, April 26, 2007, as Count Almaviva in the opera company's 561st performance of Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (Feb. 29, 1792-Nov. 13, 1868).

Erin Morley appears in all nine performances as Princess Pamina, who joins Prince Tamino in his successful completion of the last two trials of wisdom as initiate in Sarastro's temple. She first added Princess Pamina to her Met Opera portfolio in the opera company's 443rd Die Zauberflöte performance, during the 2018-2019 season's abridged, English version of American film and theater director Julie Taymor's 2004-2005 new production. The American coloratura soprano had made her Met Opera debut Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008, as the First Madrigal in the opera company’s 211th performance of Manon Lescaut by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924).

Thomas Oliemans appears in all nine performances as Papageno, who is gifted with magical silver bells as companion on Prince Tamino's rescue journey. The Dutch baritone's appearance as Papageno in the new production's opening night, Friday, May 19, marked his Met Opera debut.

Stephen Milling appears in all nine performances as Sarastro, whom the Queen of the Night has intentionally misconstrues as evil. He first added Sarastro to his Met Opera portfolio in the opera company's 358th Die Zauberflöte performance, during the 2006-2007 season's second revival of Julie Taymor's 2004-2005 new production. The Danish bass had made his Met Opera debut Friday, March 12, 2004, as Sparafucile in the opera company's 785th performance of Rigoletto by 19th-century Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901).

Kathryn Lewek appears in all nine performances as the Queen of the Night, Princess Pamina's mother who unsuccessfully schemes Sarastro's murder by her daughter. In the 2022-2023 season, the American coloratura soprano makes her seventh reprisal of the role in which she had made her Met Opera debut Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, in the holiday version of Julie Taymor's production, during the opera company's 413th performance of Die Zauberflöte.

Brenton Ryan appears in all nine performances as Monostatos, who fails in his attempts to seduce Princess Pamina. In the 2022-2023 season, Brenton Ryan sings in German the role that he first sang in English in the 2018-2019 season's abridged, English version of Julie Taymor's production. The American tenor had made his Met Opera debut Friday, April 22, 2016, as Pedrillo in the opera company’s 69th performance of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Alan Held appears in all nine performances as Sprecher, the Speaker of the Temple. He first sang the role in German in the 1992-1993 season and in English in the 2022-2023 season's holiday presentation. The American bass-baritone had made his Met Opera debut Monday, April 17, 1989, as Mr. Redburn in the opera company's 33rd performance of Billy Budd by Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (Nov. 22, 1913-Dec. 4, 1976).

Simon McBurney's production team for Die Zauberflöte comprises Michael Levine, set designer; Nicky Gillibrand, costume designer; Jean Kalman, lighting designer; Finn Ross, projection designer; and Gareth Fry, sound designer. Canadian set designer Michael Levine and French lighting designer Jean Kalman had made their Met Opera debuts Thursday, March 13, 1997, in the opera company's 104th performance of Eugene Onegin by Russian late Romantic era composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840-Nov. 6, 1893). Scottish video designer Finn Ross had made his Met Opera debut Monday, Sep. 23, 2013, in the opera company's 136th performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. United Kingdom (UK) costume designer Nicky Gillibrand and UK sound designer Gareth Fry shared their Met Opera debuts Friday, May 19, 2023, with their director in his new production's debut, in the opera company's 478th performance of Die Zauberflöte.

The 2022-2023 Met Opera season's lineup of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with the June 10, 2023, airing of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer, at 1:00 p.m. The matinee performance numbers as the 24th of the season's 24 Saturday matinee opera broadcasts.

English actor, playwright and theatrical director Simon McBurney encouraged the cast of his 2022-2023 Met Opera season premiering production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte to explore the four elements of fire, water, air and earth via movement during rehearsals, as illustrated by St. Petersburg, Russia-born, New York City-based illustrator Jenny Kroik: Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera, via Twitter May 22, 2023

Acknowledgment

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Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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The 2022-2023 Met Opera season's lineup of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts includes three Mozart operas, Idomeneo (upper right), Don Giovanni (lower left) and Die Zauberflöte (lower right): Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera, via Twitter Jan. 27, 2023, @ https://twitter.com/MetOpera/status/1619106563830042625

English actor, playwright and theatrical director Simon McBurney encouraged the cast of his 2022-2023 Met Opera season premiering production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte to explore the four elements of fire, water, air and earth via movement during rehearsals, as illustrated by St. Petersburg, Russia-born, New York City-based illustrator Jenny Kroik: Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera, via Twitter May 22, 2023, @ https://twitter.com/MetOpera/status/1661064781661454342

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