She studied opera with Carol Mastrodomenico at Tufts University, and has performed both nationally and internationally, at venues including the Italian International Music Festival Centro Studi Italiani, aboard England’s QE2, and as a soloist with the Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic Orchestra and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. And the streets are on fire.Elena Tal made her debut at the Victoria International Festival in British Columbia, where she studied voice with her first teacher, Gaelyne Gabora. Those men on horseback in 10-gallon hats are not the cowboys of classic Westerns they’re border agents, corralling Haitian migrants as they try to cross the Rio Grande into the United States.Īnd the man and woman caught in a passionate embrace in Barcelona, Spain, are not characters in a romantic comedy behind them, a riot rages over the imprisonment of a rapper convicted of insulting the Spanish monarchy.
There are other images that recall the movies, but askew. He stands in his protective gear on a hillock, like an emissary from COVID times who somehow found himself in a South Asian remake of “The Sound of Music.” Health care worker Nazir Ahmed ventured to remote Kashmiri meadows to inoculate shepherds, some of them vaccine resistant. Even as millions more died of COVID-19, billions were vaccinated. There was fun: Lady Gaga wore one of the world’s largest dresses to Joe Biden’s inauguration. And in Haiti, the wife of slain President Jovenel Moise, Martine, leaves a memorial gathering in black widow’s weeds and mask. Stoic Palestinians carry the body of a child who died in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, while a continent away, mourners bear the body of a man killed while protesting the coup in Myanmar. Capitol Mexican demonstrators against gender violence, hurling themselves at barricades an Ethiopian woman’s wrath as she fights for every split pea in starving, war-torn Tigray.Īnd there are the sorrowful embers of violence. There is fury: the astonishing moment when police aimed their guns at rioters trying to break into the House Chamber at the U.S.
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