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Articles by Thomas Sumner - Stanford University News Office

X-rays Resurrect 200-year-Old Opera

by Thomas Sumner - Stanford University News Office
At first glance the beautifully bound 1797 Luigi Cherubini opera Médée looks like an impeccably preserved relic of opera's golden age. However, flip to the final pages of the aria "Du trouble affreux qui me dévore" ("The terrible disorder that consumes me") and you see the problem: Thick smudges of carbon completely black out the closing lines.