Labyrinth by Kate Mosse Acquaints Us With Fictitious and Real People

Summary: Labyrinth, archaeological mystery English-language novel about medieval and modern-day France by Kate Mosse, acquaints us with fictitious and real people.
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The real Trencavel fortress acts as real ambiance to fictitious and real people in the southwest France of July 1209 in Labyrinth by Kate Mosse: Pinpin, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Labyrinth, archaeological mystery English-language novel about medieval and modern-day France by Kate Mosse, acquaints us with fictitious and real people even as it acts as the first book in the Languedoc trilogy.

Pic de Soularac (from French pic de, “peak of”; perhaps Occitan soula rac, “sun rock”) biogeography in southwest France’s Sabarthès Mountains brings forth Dr. Alice Tanner. July 2005 configures Alice as fictitious counterpart of fictitious Alaïs, 17-year-old wife of Guilhem in Carcassone (from Latin Carcasō, “stone”? via Occitan Carcassona) 796 years earlier. She domiciles with such dwellers as cook Jacques, guard Bérenger and sister Oriane at Château Comtal (from Latin castrum -lum comes -ālis, “fort little count pertaining”).

That fortress existed even as Viscount Raymond-Roger Trencavel (1185-Nov. 10, 1209), his father Roger II Trencavel (?-March 1194) and his grandfather Raymond I Trencavel (?-1167) existed.

Alaïs’ father, Intendant Bertrand Pelletier, facilitates fictitious feats with non-fictitious Bertrand of Saissac, as Viscount Trencavel’s guardian, and non-fictitious Raymond-Roger, Count of Foix (?-March 27, 1223).

Intendant Pelletier guards the Trencavel fortress; its fictitious people, such as medicine-, poultry-, and remedy-gathering Esclarmonde and her son Sajhë; and its real ruling family members. That fortress likewise houses such fictitious people as the weaver Na Marti and her husband Sénher Marti (from Occitan na, “lady, ma’am” and sénher, “lord, sir”). François is a fictitious servant to Alaïs Pelletier and Guilhem du Mas even as Viscount Trencavel’s and wife Agnès de Montpellier’s (1190-1226) inhabitation includes real servants.

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse joins fictitious and real people, with the former juxtaposing fictitious names to real positions, the latter juxtaposing fictitious interactions to real journeys.

The real mountain peak acts as real ambiance to fictitious people in the southwest France of July 2005 in Labyrinth by Kate Mosse: Lucas Destrem (LucasD), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

The real Trencavel fortress acts as real ambiance to fictitious and real people in the southwest France of July 1209 in Labyrinth by Kate Mosse: Pinpin, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:France_cite_de_carcassonne_chateau_comtal2.jpg

The real mountain peak acts as real ambiance to fictitious people in the southwest France of July 2005 in Labyrinth by Kate Mosse: Lucas Destrem (LucasD), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pic_de_Soularac,_versant_ouest_(3).jpg

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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 March 2024. "French and Occitan Phrase Books Adopt The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
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Martian Crater Galdakao Nudges Jagged Northeastern Rim of Gusev Crater

Summary: Martian Crater Galdakao nudges the jagged northeastern rim of Gusev Crater in the Martian southern hemisphere's Aeolis quadrangle.

High-resolution, five-wavelength visual imaging system (VIS) image, obtained by 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), depicts part of Gusev Crater's rim and ejecta, with Galdakao Crater's rim appearing as arc feature terminating at the channel (lower right); image ID V24582002; image captured Saturday, June 30, 2007, 00:53, at minus 12.9245 south latitude, 176.398 east longitude, during orbit 24582; image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University: via Arizona State University Mars Odyssey THEMIS

Galdakao Crater nudges the jagged northeastern rim of Gusev Crater in the southeastern quadrant of the Martian southern hemisphere's Aolis quadrangle as the large impact crater's only named northeastern neighborly crater.

The Aeolis quadrangle numbers as the 23rd of 30 cartographic quadrangles dividing the Martian surface according to mapping by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Designated as Mars Chart 23 (MC-23), the Aeolis quadrangle encompasses 180 degrees west to 225 degrees west longitude (180 degrees east to 135 degrees east longitude) and zero degrees to minus 30 degrees south latitude.

Galdakao Crater is centered at minus 13.34 degrees south, 176.63 degrees east, according to the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. It posts its northernmost and southernmost latitudes at minus 13.06 degrees south and minus 13.62 degrees south, respectively. It marks its easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 176.92 degrees east and 176.34 degrees east, respectively. Galdakao Crater's diameter measures 33.44 kilometers.

Galdakao Crater neighbors at the edge of Gusev Crater's northeastern craggy rim. Galdakao occurs as Gusev Crater's only named northern craterous neighbor.

Gusev Crater's eastern rim exhibits greater relief than its western rim, according to planetary geologists David A. Crown, James W. Rice, Steven W. Ruff and Stephen P. Scheidt and senior research associate Frank C. Chuang in "Geologic Mapping of Gusev Crater, Mars: Gusev Rim and Floor Characteristics," presented at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and U.S. Geological Survey's 2021 Annual Meeting of Planetary Geologic Mappers (PGM), which was held virtually Monday, June 14, to Tuesday, June 15. The north-northeastern rim's maximum relief of approximately 2,550 meters contrasts with the north-northwestern rim's relief maximum of approximately 600 meters. Incised slopes, numerous canyon-like valleys and seeming deposits of alluvial sediments configure Gusev Crater's northeastern rim.

Gusev Crater is centered at minus 14.53 degrees south latitude, 175.52 degrees west longitude. The impact crater expresses its northernmost and southernmost latitudes at minus 13.20 degrees south and minus 15.86 degrees south, respectively. It details its easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 176.91 degrees east and 174.15 degrees east, respectively. Gusev Crater's diameter spans 158.12 kilometers.

Galdakao Crater is located between Gusev Crater, its south-southwestern neighbor, and Apollinaris Sulci (Latin: sulci, plural, "plow-drawn furrows"), its northern neighbor. The feature type termed "Sulcus, sulci" is defined by the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature as "Subparallel furrows and ridges." Apollinaris Sulci is specified as a region occupying the Martian dichotomy, the boundary between the Red Planet's sharply contrasted northern and southern hemispheres, according to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) senior research scientist Laura Kerber and 14 co-authors in "A Human Landing Site at Apollinaris Sulci: Life Inside a Yardang," presented during First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars, held Tuesday, Oct. 27, to Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas. As a dichotomous site southeast of volcanic Apollinaris Mons and northeast of the Gusev impact crater, Apollinaris Sulci mingles with diverse terrain boundaries.

Apollinaris Sulci is centered at minus 11.06 degrees south latitude, 177.47 degrees east longitude. Its northernmost and southernmost latitutdes touch minus 9.47 degrees south and minus 12.65 degrees south, respectively. It establishes its easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 178.80 degrees east and 176.21 degrees east, respectively. Apollinaris Sulci's diameter spans 188.64 kilometers.

Apollinaris Mons (Latin: mons, "mountain") lies to the northwest of Galdakao Crater and of Apollinaris Sulci. Apollinaris Mons describes as "a volcanic construct" that formed "along the transition zone between the northern lowlands and southern highlands" (Figure 1 Context View of Apollinaris Mons), according to senior research associate Frank C. Chuang and senior scientists David A. Crown and Daniel C. Berman in "Geology of the northeastern flank of Apollinaris Mons, Mars: Constraints on the erosional history from morphology, topography, and crater populations," published in the Nov. 15, 2019, issue of Icarus.

Apollinaris Mons is centered at minus 9.17 degrees south latitude, 174.79 degrees east longitude. Its northernmost and southernmost latitudes extend from minus 6.88 degrees south to minus 11.47 degrees south latitude. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes stretch from 176.40 degrees east to 172.66 degrees east, respectively. Apollinaris Mons has a diameter of 275.40 kilometers.

Apollinaris Patera designates the caldera of Apollinaris Mons. The name formerly referenced the entire volcanic mountain.

Apollinaris Patera is centered at minus 8.57 degrees south latitude, 174.18 degrees east longitude. It records northernmost and southernmost latitudes of minus 7.92 degrees south and minus 9.22 degrees south, respectively. The caldera registers its easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 174.91 degrees east and 173.43 degrees east, respectively. Apollinaris Patera's diameter measures 89.60 kilometers.

Galdakao Crater honors "Euskadi (Basque) town in Spain," according to the crater's profile page on the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Galdakao is a town and municipality in the province of Biscay (Basque: Bizkaia; Spanish: Vizcaya) in the Basque Country (Basque: Euskadi; Spanish: País Vasco; French: Pays Basque), also called Basque Autonomous Community (Basque: Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa; Spanish: Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco; French: Communauté autonome du Pays basque). The International Astronomical Union approved the crater's Basque-honoring name in 2003, the year of the IAU's XXV (25th) General Assembly, which was held from Saturday, July 12, to Saturday, July 26, 2003, in Sydney, Australia.

detail of MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) Context (CTX) Image of "Galdako Crater and surrounding terrain" (image ID: CTX: P18_008172_1668_XI_13S183W), image time 2008-04-24T05:51:44.789, orbit 8172, center latitude minus 13.2 degrees south, center longitude 176.49 degrees east longitude, spacecraft altitude 260.27 kilometers, solar distance 248,956,272 kilometers: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

High-resolution, five-wavelength visual imaging system (VIS) image, obtained by 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), depicts part of Gusev Crater's rim and ejecta, with Galdakao Crater's rim appearing as arc feature terminating at the channel (lower right); image ID V24582002; image captured Saturday, June 30, 2007, 00:53, at minus 12.9245 south latitude, 176.398 east longitude, during orbit 24582; image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University: via Arizona State University Mars Odyssey THEMIS @ https://themis.mars.asu.edu/zoom-20070827a

detail of MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) Context (CTX) Image of "Galdako Crater and surrounding terrain" (image ID: CTX: P18_008172_1668_XI_13S183W), image time 2008-04-24T05:51:44.789, orbit 8172, center latitude minus 13.2 degrees south, center longitude 176.49 degrees east longitude, spacecraft altitude 260.27 kilometers, solar distance 248,956,272 kilometers: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikigaldakao.jpg; via ASU Mars Space Flight Facility Image Viewer @ http://viewer.mars.asu.edu/planetview/inst/ctx/P18_008172_1668_XI_13S183W#P=P18_008172_1668_XI_13S183W&T=2

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Fire Shut Up in My Bones Is April 27, 2024, Saturday Radio Broadcast

Summary: Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones airs April 27, 2024, as the 21st of 27 Met Opera Saturday matinee radio broadcasts in the 2023-2024 season.

Met Opera's 2023-2024 season roster includes the first revival of American jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard's 2021-2022-premiering Fire Shut Up in My Bones, directed by American stage director James Robinson and co-directed and choreographed by American choreographer and stage director Camille A. Brown; portrait of Camille A. Brown dancing in Lincoln Center Plaza's Revson Fountain against backdrop of the Metropolitan Opera House's lobby chandeliers, by Durham, North Carolina-based artist Jim Keon, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City: Camille A. Brown, via Facebook July 15, 2022

Fire Shut Up in My Bones is the April 27, 2024, Met Opera Saturday matinee broadcast, airing at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time as the 21st of the 2023-2024 season's lineup of 27 Saturday matinee radio broadcasts.

Fire Shup in My Bones by American jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) receives seven performances in the 2023-2024 season. The first through fourth performances were held Monday, April 8, at 7:00 p.m.; Friday, April 12, at 8:00 p.m.; Wednesday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, April 20, at 8:00 p.m. The fifth through seventh, closing performances are scheduled for Wednesday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee broadcast, April 27, at 1:00 p.m.; and Thursday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Evan Rogister conducts all seven performances. The North Carolina-born maestro of American and German dual citizenship had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017, in the opera company's 438th performance of Die Zauberflöte by Classical Era composer Wolfgang Mozart (Jan. 27, 1756-Dec. 5, 1791).

Ryan Speedo Green appears in all seven performances as Charles, whose journey from childhood trauma to healing plots the opera. The American bass-baritone had made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, as a Mandarin in the opera company’s 287th performance of Turandot by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924).

Latonia Moore appears in all seven performances as Billie, Charles's mother. The American soprano had made her Met Opera debut Saturday, March 3, 2012, in the title role in the opera company's 1,122nd performance of Aida by 19th-century Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901).

Brittany Renee appears in all seven performances in three roles as Greta and the female spirits of Destiny and Loneliness, all of whom guide Charles from stored trauma to healing release. The American soprano had made her Met Opera debut Monday, Sep. 27, 2021, as Evelyn in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

The 2023-2024 season's presentation of Fire Shut Up in My Bones marks the first revival of the new production that debuted Monday, Sep. 27, 2021, under the directorship of James Robinson and Camille A. Brown are the production's directors. The American stage director and the American choreographer had made their Met Opera debuts Monday, Sep. 23, 2019, in the opera company's 55th performance of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

Co-director Camille A. Brown is the production's choreographer. Robinson and Brown's production team comprises Allen Moyer, set designer; Paul Tazewell, costume designer; Christopher Akerlind, lighting designer; and Greg Emetaz, projection designer. American set designer Allen Moyer made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, May 2, 2007, in the opera company's 83rd performance of Orfeo ed Euridice by German classical composer Christoph von Gluck (July 2, 1714-Nov. 15, 1787). American costume designer Paul Tazewell made his Met Opera debut Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, in the opera company's 734th performance of Faust by French composer Charles-François Gounod (June 17, 1818-Oct. 18, 1893). American lighting designer Christopher Akerlind made his Met Opera debut Friday, Nov. 10, 2006, in the opera company's 551st performance of Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (Feb. 29, 1792-Nov. 13, 1868). American projection designer Greg Emetaz made his Met Opera debut in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Robinson and Brown's production of Blanchard's Fire Shut Up In My Bones.

John Adams's El Niño broadcasts May 4 at 1:00 p.m. as the 22nd of the 2023-2024 season's 27 Saturday matinee broadcasts. The April 27 Saturday matinee broadcast numbers as the second of seven performances for El Niño's Metropolitan Opera premiere.

Sir Donald Runnicles' global music career mixes conductorships at prestigious opera houses, such as Met Opera's Lincoln Center, with an annual summer commitment since 2005 as Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF); the "sights and sounds" of the festival and of its setting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, have spellbound, renewed and restored the Edinburghian Scottish conductor, according to his attestation on the "About" page of the festival's website (https://gtmf.org/donald-runnicles/): Grand Teton Music Festival, via Facebook July 12, 2023

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

Met Opera's 2023-2024 season roster includes the first revival of American jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard's 2021-2022-premiering Fire Shut Up in My Bones, directed by American stage director James Robinson and co-directed and choreographed by American choreographer and stage director Camille A. Brown; portrait of Camille A. Brown dancing in Lincoln Center Plaza's Revson Fountain against backdrop of the Metropolitan Opera House's lobby chandeliers, by Durham, North Carolina-based artist Jim Keon, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City: Camille A. Brown, via Facebook July 15, 2022, @ https://www.facebook.com/camilleabrownanddancers/posts/pfbid04F1Em2az5jqGgmoohj86mwLxXiRnMegUWgjUVB4y9UGofVTusxtMj3a4sn4aQn12l: Camille A. Brown, via Facebook July 15, 2022, @ https://www.facebook.com/camilleabrownanddancers/posts/pfbid04F1Em2az5jqGgmoohj86mwLxXiRnMegUWgjUVB4y9UGofVTusxtMj3a4sn4aQn12l

North Carolina-born maestro of American and German dual citizenship: portrait of Evan Rogister by Walter Olah: Evan Rogister, via Facebook Aug. 29, 2023, @ https://www.facebook.com/evanrogister/posts/641975064579340/; via Facebook Aug. 29, 2023, @ https://www.facebook.com/evanrogister/posts/641975064579340/

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Camille A. Brown. "THANK YOU for this amazing painting @drillboney!!! I am very honored!!! 'About the background: She is standing in the fountain at Lincoln Center and the burst is the chandelier from the Opera House, a nod to Miss Brown’s recent accomplishments with Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The title of the piece is Breaking Glass Ceilings' -- Jim McKeon." Facebook. July 15, 2022.
Available via Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/camilleabrownanddancers/posts/pfbid04F1Em2az5jqGgmoohj86mwLxXiRnMegUWgjUVB4y9UGofVTusxtMj3a4sn4aQn12l
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"Debut: Evan Rogister." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 356804 Die Zauberflöte Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, November 25, 2017 Matinee. Debut: Evan Rogister. In English, translation by J. D. McClatchy. Die Zauberflöte (438) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Emanuel Schikaneder.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=356747

"Debut: Frederick Ballentine, Chauncey Packer, Errin Duane Brooks, Reginald Smith, Jr., Jamez McCorkle, Damien Geter, Arthur Woodley, Grant Neale, Bobby Mittelstadt, Neo Randall, Jonathan Tuzo, James Robinson, Donald Holder, Luke Halls, Camille A. Brown, David Leong, Camille A. Brown, David Leong, David Leong." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 357217 Opening Night (135), New Production, General Manager: Peter Gelb Porgy and Bess Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, September 23, 2019 Broadcast. Debut: Frederick Ballentine, Chauncey Packer, Errin Duane Brooks, Reginald Smith, Jr., Jamez McCorkle, Damien Geter, Arthur Woodley, Grant Neale, Bobby Mittelstadt, Neo Randall, Jonathan Tuzo, James Robinson, Donald Holder, Luke Halls, Camille A. Brown, David Leong, Camille A. Brown, David Leong, David Leong. Porgy and Bess (55) George Gershwin / DuBose Heyward.
Available @ https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0386664

"Debut: Jonathan Beyer, Des McAnuff, Robert Brill, Paul Tazewell, Kelly Devine, Sean Nieuwenhuis." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 354183 New Production Faust Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, November 29, 2011 Broadcast. Debut: Jonathan Beyer, Des McAnuff, Robert Brill, Paul Tazewell, Kelly Devine, Sean Nieuwenhuis. Faust (734) Charles Gounod / Jules Barbier/Michel Carré.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=357253

"Debut: Latonia Moore." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 354395 Aida Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, March 3, 2012 Matinee Broadcast Matinee. Debut: Latonia Moore. Aida (1122) Giuseppe Verdi / Antonio Ghislanzoni.
Available @ https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0384949

"Debut: Latonia Moore." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 354395 Aida Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, March 3, 2012 Matinee Broadcast Matinee. Debut: Latonia Moore. Aida (1122) Giuseppe Verdi / Antonio Ghislanzoni.
Available @ https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0384949

"Debut: Mark Morris, Allen Moyer, Isaac Mizrahi." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 352019 New Production Orfeo ed Euridice Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, May 2, 2007. Debut: Mark Morris, Allen Moyer, Isaac Mizrahi. Orfeo ed Euridice (83) Christoph Willibald Gluck / Ranieri de' Calzabigi.
Available @ https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0383814

"Debut: Walter Russell III, Chris Kenney, Brittany Renee, Terrence Chin-Loy, Brianna Hunter, Cierra Byrd, Calvin Griffin." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 357410 Opening Night (136) Peter Gelb General Manager Metropolitan Opera Premiere Broadcast/Streamed/Times Squarecast/Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park Fire Shut Up In My Bones Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, September 27, 2021 Broadcast. Debut: Walter Russell III, Chris Kenney, Brittany Renee, Terrence Chin-Loy, Brianna Hunter, Cierra Byrd, Calvin Griffin. Fire Shut Up In My Bones (1) Terence Blanchard / Kasi Lemmons.
Available @ https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0386841

“Debuts: Alexander Soddy, Angel Blue, Duncan Rock.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 356747 La Bohème {1306} Metropolitan Opera House: 10/2/2017.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=356747

"Debuts: Des McAnuff, Robert Brill, Paul Tazewell, Kelly Devine, Sean Nieuwenhuis, Jonathan Beyer." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 354183 New Production Faust {734} Metropolitan Opera House: 11/29/2011.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=354183

"Debuts: James Robinson, Camille A. Brown, Frederick Ballentine, Chauncey Packer, Reginald Smith, Jr., Jamez McCorkle, Grant Neale, Bobby Mittelstadt, Damien Geter, Chanáe Curtis, David Leong, Arthur Woodley, Michael Lewis, Neo Randall, Jonathan Tuzo." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 357253 New Production Porgy and Bess {55} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/23/2019.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=357253

"Debuts: Bartlett Sher, Catherine Zuber, Christopher Akerlind, Rob Besserer." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 351644 New Production Il Barbiere di Siviglia {551} Metropolitan Opera House: 11/10/2006.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=351644

"Debuts: Mark Morris, Allen Moyer, Isaac Mizrahi." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 352019 New Production Orfeo ed Euridice {83} Metropolitan Opera House: 05/02/2007.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=352019

“Debuts: Ryan Speedo Green, Oriada Islami Prifti.” MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 354549 Turandot {287} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/26/2012.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=354549

"Debuts: Walter Russell III, Terrence Chin-Loy, Briana Hunter, Cierra Byrd, Chris Kenney, Calvin Griffin, Greg Emetaz, Brittany Renee." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 357471 Metropolitan Opera Premiere Fire Shut Up In My Bones {1} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/27/2021, Broadcast/Streamed/Times Squarecast/Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park. (Opening Night {136} Peter Gelb General Manager Debuts: Walter Russell III, Terrence Chin-Loy, Briana Hunter, Cierra Byrd, Chris Kenney, Calvin Griffin, Greg Emetaz, Brittany Renee Broadcast/Streamed/Times Squarecast/Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park). Metropolitan Opera House. September 27, 2021 Broadcast/Streamed/Times Squarecast/Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park. Opening Night (136) Peter Gelb General Manager. Metropolitan Opera Premiere.
Available @ http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=357471

Marriner, Derdriu. "Fire Shut Up In My Bones Is Jan. 8, 2022, Saturday Matinee Broadcast." Earth and Space News. Monday, Jan. 3, 2022.
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Marriner, Derdriu. "Met Opera Newly Stages Carmen and La Forza del Destino in 2023-2024." Earth and Space News. Monday, Sep. 11, 2023.
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Marriner, Derdriu. "The Metropolitan Opera Performs 18 Operas in the 2023-2024 Season." Earth and Space News. Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-metropolitan-opera-performs-18.html

Marriner, Derdriu. "Metropolitan Opera Revives 12 Productions in 2023-2024 Season." Earth and Space News. Monday, Aug. 28, 2023.
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Marriner, Derdriu. "Only Two of 11 Zeffirelli Productions Are Still Revived at Met Opera." Earth and Space News. Monday, May 25, 2020.
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The Metropolitan Opera. "The Metropolitan Opera announces its 2023–24 season, with the most new works in the company’s modern history." The Metropolitan Opera > About > Press Releases. Feb. 22, 2023.
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“Metropolitan Opera Premiere: Fire Shut Up in My Bones." MetOpera Database > [Met Performance] CID: 357410 Opening Night (136)Peter Gelb General ManagerMetropolitan Opera PremiereBroadcast/Streamed/Times Squarecast/Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park Fire Shut Up In My Bones Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, September 27, 2021 Broadcast. Debut: Walter Russell III, Chris Kenney, Brittany Renee, Terrence Chin-Loy, Brianna Hunter, Cierra Byrd, Calvin Griffin. Fire Shut Up In My Bones (1) Terence Blanchard / Kasi Lemmons.
Available @ https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0386841

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Acquaints Us With Phacelia

Summary: The Mystery of the Acid Soil short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited acquaints us with Phacelia.

"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.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Kate Mosse in The Mystery of the Acid Soil addresses only two acid soil-appreciating plants by scientific appellation. She affirms common-named heliotrope and scorpion-weed scientifically as Phacelia (from Greek φάκελος, “bundle”); illustration of "Phacelia Tanacetifolia Tansy-Leaved Phacelia" by Glasgow, Scotland-born botanical illustrator Walter Hood Fitch (Feb. 28, 1817-Jan. 14, 1892) in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. XII of the new series (1839), Plate 3703: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Baffin Bay agrees as Wild March with Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024, whereby the National Audubon Society applauds Arctic and near-Arctic American wildlife.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil, short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited, acquaints us with such acid soil-appreciating plants as the genus Phacelia.

Agatha Christie Limited brings us Sep. 13, 2022, to its 14-book Marple Collection, the latest being Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, beneath HarperCollins Publishers’ William Morrow imprint. Kate Mosse crafts pages 299-300, 301-306, 306-313, 313-317, 317-320, 320-321, 321-323, 323-325, 326-327 and 327-333 into 10 configurations to convey her contribution, the 10th, next-last chapter. All denizens but one denizen described by first, genus name alone and but another denizen discerned by first, genus and second, species names domicile common names.

Clematis crispa and Phacelia (from Greek κλῆμα, “branch, twig” and Latin crispa, “crimped, curly, tremulous”; φάκελος, “bundle”) respectively elaborate buttercup-family genus and species and borage-family genus.

Tracheophyte- (from Greek τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία φυτά, “windpipe artery plants”) clade vascular tissues furnish Phacelia species energizing, omnidirection-flowing, photosynthetic starches and sugars and soil-extracted, solubilizing, upward-flowing nutrients.

Tracheophyte cladeship grants Phacelia-genus species reproductive spores, 9-11 per-cell chromosomes and, like angiosperm- (from Greek ἀγγεῖον σπέρμα, “container[ized] seed”) clade members, true leaves, roots and stems. Flowering-plant cladeship honors bell-, bowl-, tube-shaped, sepaled (from Latin sēparātus petalum, “[bud-holding] separate petal” via sēpalum), two-gendered flowers before embryonic, outer-coated seeds within warm weather-harvestable fruits. Eudicot- (from Greek εὖ- δῐ- κοτυληδών, “good two cup[-like] cavity”) clade membership includes such flowering plants as borage-order, borage-family members that integrate two germinated seed leaves.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse jubilates Phacelia, Boraginales and Boraginaceae (from Latin burra -ālis, “shaggy-garmented”; borāgō -āceae, “borage [Borago officinalis] -resembling”) member.

Borage- and forget-me-not-order and family kinship kindles alternate-kept, gray-green, narrow-sided, pinnate (from Latin pinna, “feathered”; -ātus, “-ed”), straight-stemmed leaves with calcium carbonate- and silicon dioxide-keeping hairs.

The native lodger of North and South America likewise launches skin allergies from calcium carbonate- and silicon dioxide-laden hairs lined along maximally 4-foot- (1.22-meter-) long stems. The annual and the perennial herbs manage spring- and summer-manifesting sepals maintaining blue, green, orange, pink, purple, white or yellow lobes perhaps 2 months after sowing. The borage and the forget-me-not family nestles its Hydrophylloideae (from Greek ῠ̔́δωρ φύλλον, “water leaf”; Latin -oideae, “-resembling”) water-leaf subfamily members atop thick, underground tap roots.

The genus Phacelia offers The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse nutritious calcium and nitrogen obtained from area soil for soil food web members.

Waterleaf-subfamily membership presents the genus Phacelia with that taproot and those nutrients along with bisexual, two-gendered flowers each with five ray-like sepals and with five stamens.

The genus Phacelia quarters as common names heliotrope (from Greek ἥλῐος τρόπος, “sun turn”) and scorpionweed because of how its flowers and its fruits physically queue. Calcium- and nitrogen-retrieving and rendering Phacelia, recognized by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748-Sep. 17, 1836), requires cool-summer, fertile, mild-winter, sunny, 30-centimeter (11.81-inch), well-drained ranges. Drupe- (from Greek δρύππᾱ, “overripe olive” via Latin drūpa, “wrinkled olive”) shorn, soil-sequestered seeds suggest minus 50-degree-Fahrenheit (minus 45.6-degree-Celsius) sites outdoors-sown pre-spring and pre-fall frost dates.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse treats us to the terminal, thick-trooping flowers and the nutrient-transmitting tissues of freeze-, heat- and humidity-intolerant Phacelia.

Kate Mosse in The Mystery of the Acid Soil only applies the first, genus, scientific appellation to common-named heliotrope and scorpion-weed. Perhaps Jane Marple arranged as Phacelia specimens blue tansy, fiddleneck, purple tansy the second-, species-named Phacelia tanacetifolia; "Phacelia tanacetifolia, Tansy-leaved Phacelia," with ovarium's two-parted hairy style (figure 1; lower left) and 10 scales near base of cut-open corolla (figure 2; lower right), drawn by Miss Drake (English botanical illustrator Sarah Anne Drake, nicknamed "Ducky"; July 24, 1803–July 9, 1857) in Edwards's Botanical Register, new series vol. VII (MDCCCXXXV [1835]), Plate 1696: Internet Archive Book Images, Public Domain, via Flickr

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

Kate Mosse in The Mystery of the Acid Soil addresses only two acid soil-appreciating plants by scientific appellation. She affirms common-named heliotrope and scorpion-weed scientifically as Phacelia (from Greek φάκελος, “bundle”); illustration of "Phacelia Tanacetifolia Tansy-Leaved Phacelia" by Glasgow, Scotland-born botanical illustrator Walter Hood Fitch (Feb. 28, 1817-Jan. 14, 1892) in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. XII of the new series (1839), Plate 3703: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/8386428831; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/433218; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Curtis’s_botanical_magazine_(Plate_3703)_-_clean_(Phacelia_tanacetifolia).jpg

Kate Mosse in The Mystery of the Acid Soil only applies the first, genus, scientific appellation to common-named heliotrope and scorpion-weed. Perhaps Jane Marple arranged as Phacelia specimens blue tansy, fiddleneck, purple tansy the second-, species-named Phacelia tanacetifolia; "Phacelia tanacetifolia, Tansy-leaved Phacelia," with ovarium's two-parted hairy style (figure 1; lower left) and 10 scales near base of cut-open corolla (figure 2; lower right), drawn by Miss Drake (English botanical illustrator Sarah Anne Drake, nicknamed "Ducky"; July 24, 1803–July 9, 1857) in Edwards's Botanical Register, new series vol. VII (MDCCCXXXV [1835]), Plate 1696: Internet Archive Book Images, Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/20984858588/; Not in copyright, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/edwardsbotanical20edwa/page/n189/mode/1up; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwards'_botanical_register,_or,_Ornamental_flower-garden_and_shrubbery_.._(1829-1847)_(20984858588).jpg

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