THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, RIGOLETTO, JANUARY. REVELATIONS IN AIR A GUIDEBOOK TO SMELL BY JUDE STEWART

 

Live in HD: Rigoletto on the Big Screen

On January 29, “a compelling new Rigoletto” (The New York Times) appears in movie theaters around the world in a riveting new staging by acclaimed director Bartlett Sher. 

Recently named a Critic’s Pick and hailed as “a detailed, dramatic staging, full of insights into the characters” by The New York Times, the production features the “incandescent performances” (Wall Street Journal) of eminent Verdian baritone Quinn Kelsey, who brings his searing portrayal of the title role to the Met for the first time, and soprano Rosa Feola as his innocent daughter Gilda. 

Tenor Piotr Beczała rounds out the principal cast as the lascivious Duke of Mantua, with leading maestro Daniele Rustioni on the podium.

AND A BOOK, "REVELATIONS IN AIR", BY JUDE STEWART

An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses

The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the matre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory—and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour of their mysterious domains. —Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs

Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells--the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth after rain--few of us understand how and why we smell.

In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells—from lavender, cut grass and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books—using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more. With an engaging colorful design and exercises for readers to refine their own skills, Revelations in Air goes beyond science or history or chemistry--it's a doorway into the surprising, pleasurable, and unfamiliar landscape of smell.

https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/revelations-in-air-9780143135999