The Sinfonia da Camera and Lyric Theatre at Illinois presented a semi-staged performance in Foellinger Great Hall of that greatest of Viennese operettas, Johann Strauss II’s “Die Fledermaus” (“The Bat”).
A New Zealand lawmaker, she fought for the rights of sex workers, L.G.B.T.Q. and Māori people, and won a battle to legalize civil unions for couples of any gender.