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| UNESCO - Saving Abu Simbel Digitized by the UNESCO Archives. A production of UNESCO and the Abu Simbel Joint Venture. When the work began on the High Aswan Dam in Upper Egypt, the two temples of Abu Simbel, carved in the living rock which rises from the banks of the Nile, were threatened with destruction. In following the course of the International Campaign launched by UNESCO in 1960, the film reveals the archaeological significance of the temples. It shows how they were dismantled and removed stone by stone to higher ground, where, reconstructed, they now stand in all their grandeur, orientated as before towards the river and the sun. https://on.unesco.org/2z4oM9L |
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| Getty Foundation: The Getty Villa The Getty Foundation is an exemplar of private philanthropic financing. The Getty Villa is devoted to the study and display of art from the ancient world. Housed in a spectacular recreation of an ancient Roman villa, its collection celebrates the culture and artistry of ancient peoples and draws connections to our world today. Located near the Pacific shore in Malibu, California, the Getty Villa serves a varied audience through exhibitions, conservation, scholarship, research, and public programs. The Villa houses approximately 44,000 works of art from the Museum's extensive collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, of which over 1,200 are on view. https://www.getty.edu/visit/ | Voi che sapete (Cherubino) - Cecilia Bartoli, soprano: The Marriage of Figaro "Voi che sapete" ("You, who know what love is") is a famous aria from Mozart's opera Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), sung by the young, hormonal page Cherubino, a "trouser role" usually played by a female mezzo-soprano, as he describes his confusing adolescent feelings of love and desire to Susanna and the Countess, seeking advice while strumming a guitar in Act II, a moment of innocent, relatable vulnerability amidst the opera's comedic plots. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act II: No. 12, Voi che sapete · Cecilia Bartoli · Wiener Kammerorchester · György Fischer | Saving Venice_The MOSE project The documentary video outlines the technological efforts made to save Venice from chronic tidal and storm-induced catastrophic flooding. While the big and expensive MOSE project provides some protection, climate change is almost guaranteeing its obsolescence. |
