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Lise Davidsen reigns as Isolde at Met Opera while balancing career and motherhood

NEW YORK (AP) — When Lise Davidsen finished her last performance in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at the Metropolitan Opera a year ago, she flew home to Norway to await the birth of twins, enjoy a six-month maternity leave and prepare for a major role debut. If she had worries, they were mainly about the delivery and whether it might affect her voice. “But as soon as they were born, everything changed,” she said. After more than a decade of nearly constant travel from one opera house to another, building her career, she was never away from her infant sons over the summer for ...

Brazilian inmates find relief and reduce sentences through reading

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When 33-year-old Brazilian woman Emily de Souza heard about a program allowing her to shave off four days from her prison sentence by reading a book, she seized the opportunity to reconnect with a cherished habit. Like tens of thousands of detainees across the ...