Re: [PC GAME - ITA] Opera Fatal
Gifford Brickley
Opera Fatal is a 1996 educational graphic adventure puzzle video game developed by Ruske & Pühretmaier Design und Multimedia GmbH and published by Heureka-Klett. The game's plot follows maestro Angelo, the orchestra director, on the night before the premiere of Beethoven's Fidelio. A mysterious thief has stolen the musical scores; to retrieve them, Angelo must solve a series of music-themed riddles that have been scattered throughout the opera house.[1][2]
The gameplay of Opera Fatal consists of first-person exploration as Angelo finds his way through the opera house. The player can interact with some specific objects by clicking or dragging them. Some items can be carried by Angelo to be used to solve a puzzle elsewhere in the opera house. The primary goal is to find the numbered questions left by the thief and to write down the correct answers in a book in the office. As more sets of questions are answered, more parts of the opera house become accessible. To aid the player in answering the questions, an interactive virtual library on music theory, musical instruments, the lives of several composers, and music history is available inside the game itself.[3][4]
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Opera Fatal is a musical and educational adventure game. You must help an opera director to find his score, stolen by a thief - a chase through the theatre, solving musical puzzles and learning more about instruments. The graphics were made with Quicktime VR and Macromedia technologies.
Cinema also has the capacity to extend the visual elements of the opera: cameras can zoom in and out of facial expressions, visual props can be constructed, montage can alter the meaning of a scene. Far from substituting for the operatic experience, opera-based films provide a different, complementary take on the operatic repertoire: they become a genre of its own, which has been labelled the ʽopera-filmʼ. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) by Powell and Pressburger take the viewer to a phantasmagorical world filled with technicolor animated dolls, courtesans and mad scientists.
In the future, cinema and opera are bound to become more are more intertwined. While opera is fighting for relevance in the 21st century with new music produced, and cinema is slowly giving away its predominant role to premium on-demand TV, the two media can ally to give rise to new forms of art, integrating the codes of each other to create something that can become larger than the sum of their parts.
"For God's sake, whatever you do, don't sing," Violetta warns Mimi, Lucia and Giulietta at the beginning of "Fatal Song or The Great Opera Murders," now playing, cabaret-style, at the University of Maryland's Kogod Theatre. Violetta, whose usual home is in Verdi's "La Traviata," has learned the hard way that sopranos in 19th-century opera are an endangered species; singing can be fatal. Her companions hardly need to be told; Mimi and Lucia have died onstage -- prettily, colorfully and with beautiful music to usher them out of the world. Giulietta has survived so far but she remembers her lost friends, Gilda and Lulu. And in "Fatal Song" she is killed by poisoned wine.
Meeting in some backstage never-never land, these opera characters and others ask themselves why composers are so toxic for sopranos and whether they can organize to stop the slaughter. They are interrupted by two much more optimistic Mozart sopranos, Susanna from "The Marriage of Figaro," who complains of sexual harassment on the job but nothing life-threatening, and Despina from "Cosi Fan Tutte," who exclaims her happiness: "I'm in a Mozart opera! I don't die!"
Killing sopranos dates back to the first operas, treatments of the Orpheus myth, and has not been entirely eliminated today. But it was at its worst in the 19th century. Other victims who appear in "Fatal Song" include Carmen, Desdemona, Manon Lescaut (two Manons, by Puccini and Massenet) and Olympia from "Tales of Hoffmann," who is not exactly alive but gets dismantled. The show's indictment of 19th-century composers is supported by an overwhelming accumulation of evidence.
Assembling a nice night of operatic arias for a cabaret production, Kathleen Cahill was struck by a commonality among the women in classic productions: They pretty much all ended up dead in all manner of ways.
So Fatal Song: The Great Opera Murders, presented by the In Series at the Source Theatre, is a kind of sardonic romp through all their bad luck, as the ladies compare notes and warnings backstage. It also allows them to sing some of the most familiar arias from the world of opera.
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There is menace in the music, as there should be, and some rattlingly effective scoring during the fight scenes. However, overall it seemed to fall into an unsatisfactory territory between musical and full-blown opera, and the two acts, each well under an hour in length, did not allow the story sufficient room to develop. Ran Arthur Braun directed both flight and fight, and did a wonderful job considering that the stage itself was impossibly encumbered with objects (especially the alphabet blocks) which never spelt anything special, and blocked the view on several crucial occasions.
Surgery is the oldest treatment modality for cancer and the majority of patients who survive their cancers do so because of surgical resection of the primary. Medical oncology is a much younger specialty, born in the aftermath of World War II when drugs like nitrogen mustard were used to treat malignant lymphoma. It is now approaching middle age and 2008 represents the 35th anniversary of the formal recognition of medical oncology as a subspecialty by the American Board of Internal Medicine.3 It is a rapidly evolving field, moving from the empirical toward tailored treatment. Some notable achievements came in the late 1970s when effective treatment with combined systemic chemotherapy was developed for advanced testicular cancer.4,5 The regimens developed, improved and evaluated by medical oncologists over the following 2 decades assured constantly improving care such that most patients with advanced disease are now cured. Such treatment is complex, and among medical oncologists it is recognized that patients with testicular cancer should be treated by those with experience and expertise. Is it possible that urologists could achieve similar results if they were to treat testicular cancer patients with chemotherapy? We do not need clinical trials to answer this question. The relation between potential for cure and serious toxicity is finely balanced and at least equivalent to that associated with a major operation; it requires comparable training and experience. Similar logic applies to chemotherapy used for other urological cancers. From the perspective of quality of care and patient safety, only a medical oncologist with appropriate training and expertise in the systemic treatment of early and advanced urological cancer can give the best possible care to these patients. Physicians and surgeons benefit both themselves and their patients if they are self-critical, recognize their own limitations and allow those who are best qualified to treat the patient to do so.
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