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Deeper truth behind opera’s swan songs Letters © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
I read with interest your article on terminal lucidity (‘The clouds cleared’: what terminal lucidity teaches us about life, death and dementia, 23 February), about those near death who briefly regain their mental strength and clarity. This phenomenon might be relatively new to scientists, but operas have been exploiting it for centuries. Consumptive heroines and flawed heroes often insist on singing a long aria before finally expiring. Such scenes have long been ridiculed, but perhaps they actually express a deeper truth about the human condition than was hitherto suspected?
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Born in London and raised in working-class neighborhoods by a single mother, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins showed musical talent early in life, entertaining friends and family by singing current hits and learning to play the guitar and clarinet. In her teens, emulating Etta James, Aretha Franklin, and other soul singers, she developed her vocal depth and power. She studied at a high school for the performing arts, and, soon after graduating in 2006, she was signed to a recording contract. The first album that Adele, as she now called herself, released was
19, commemorating her age at the time she wrote most of its songs. Adele swiftly gained a following throughout Britain and the United States, and she won the best new artist Grammy in 2009. The age-pegged albums