Bots of 2008 Kane the partying and revels may be over but we extend the spirit of New Year s Eve with a New Year s Eve dinner party at Prince Orlowski outside Vienna through the music of Johann Strauss is operetta deflator mouse the bat which is as bubbly as champagne itself grab your scarf and gloves join me for tonight s operatic indulgence. The. Eat the. Tonight I m going to tell you the whole story of deflator mouse with the aid of 2 recordings including a famous gala party recording more about that little bit later but the opera premiered in 874 and takes place in Vienna at a time when Austrians enjoyed booming prosperity and part of the fun of this opera is the use of music and dialogue to update the opera as we re going to hear while the opera opens at the home of the nouveau riche couple Gabriele and Rosa Linda Eisenstein a year ago Gabriele went to a costume ball with his friend Dr fall. Dr Falcone went to the Costume Ball dressed as a bat they got drunk and I didn t sign had
Markets are mostly higher investors in China are keeping an eye on the communist party congresses leadership meeting held once every 5 years this is n.p.r. News a federal judge in New York is set to hear arguments on whether to allow a lawsuit against President Trump to move forward Wednesday s hearing focuses on the so-called email you meant to clause in the Constitution the case brought by a group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington alleges that trump violated the Constitution by allowing his businesses to accept money from foreign governments and Justice Department lawyers are expected to argue Wednesday that the clause pertains to gifts or payments to a u.s. President in his official capacity for the 2nd year in a row American writer George Saunders has won Britain s best known literary award the Man Booker Prize Saunders s best known for his short stories won this year s award for his 1st novel Lincoln in the bardo more from N.P.R. s Lynn Neary Saunders at
Preview b.b.c. Radio Lincolnshire. 12 o clock with the latest news his barber Stimson at least 50 people have been killed and around 200 injured in a mass shooting at an Open a concert in Las Vegas police say the gunman who opened fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel lived locally and probably acted alone offices are looking for the attackers female companion pulled a muscle and his wife were at the concert he described how they dodged bullets we were center stage right at the front just down so we have a good time and all the sudden we heard pop pop pop pop pop so we just hit the ground and just laid there and hang on to each other and it was quiet for a bit and then fired another 30 rounds and then quiet and then what we were doing was every time he stopped he was reloading we had gotten up and started making our way towards the fence and then he started shooting again and we hit the ground. A family from Lincolnshire heading to a relative s wedding abroad have found their flights ha