Scientists help return 200-year-old opera to full voice By Megan GannonLiveScienceScientists have helped to restore Luigi Cherubini's opera "Médée" to its original glory.A lost aria, or solo song, from the piece, which Cherubini apparently smudged out in spite more than 200 years ago, has been revealed by X-ray scans.Cherubini was an Italian composer who worked mostly in France and counted Ludwig van Beethoven among his contemporaries and admirers ...
June 11, 2013 - MSNBC
X-rays Restore Lost Segment of 200-Year-Old Opera Whoever thinks that physicists can’t enjoy the artistic side of life should visit the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford. Researchers there have used the power of science to reveal for the first time in more than 200 years the full score of an 18th century opera, Médée. When Luigi Cherubini, one of his era’s best composers, wrote the opera in 1797, it was criticized for being too ...
June 11, 2013 - Discover