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KNAU update for Jan. 18 — Arizona Opera Returns to Classical KNAU

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KNAU Insider prEview – January 18th, 2019
Arizona Opera Returns to Classical KNAU

Murder, deceit, a fake execution: Puccini’s “Tosca,” takes to the airwaves Sunday at noon on Classical KNAU. We’ll hear Arizona Opera‘s 2017 production of this favorite from the world of opera.

Tosca is a beautiful and fiery Italian diva, passionately in love with the artist Mario Cavaradossi. But soon, she is caught in the political intrigues of Rome and a sinister web spun by Baron Scarpia, the Chief of Police. Tosca desperately looks for a way out and Scarpia offers a solution: submit to him and he will let the couple leave the city unharmed. But, of course, all is not what it seems in Puccini’s high-stakes drama-and Tosca is forced to take matters into her own hands.
Arizona Opera continues March 31st with “Candide,” Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman’s comedic reworking of Voltair’s novella.
Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend

A total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout North and South America on Sunday night. Earth’s shadow will take the first bite out of the moon at eight thirty in the evening, as it rises in the eastern sky. The eclipse will end just before midnight. Learn more at KNAU.org.
Earth Notes: Central Arizona Land Trust
This year a Prescott-based group marks three decades of work protecting some of Arizona’s last best places. On its 30th anniversary, the Central Arizona Land Trust is on the cusp of saving even more open space, ranchland, and streamside habitat. Learn more at KNAU.org.
Furloughed Grand Canyon Employees Face Uncertainty as Shutdown Grinds On

For the second week in a row, Grand Canyon officials held a meeting with employees and others affected by the government shutdown. The group discussed a variety of topics as the impasse in Washington D.C. nears a month. Learn more at KNAU.org.
Third Party To Run Center Where Comatose Woman Had Baby
The parents of an Arizona woman in a vegetative state who gave birth last month as a result of a rape hope an outside review of the Phoenix facility where she lived will lead to change, a lawyer for the family said Wednesday. Learn more at KNAU.org.