Guy de Mey the English National Opera; Lully's "Atys" under William Christie at the Paris Opera, in Florence and New York; Berg’s "Lulu" with Teresa Stratas in a production by Ruth Berghaus, and "Boris Godunov" with José Van Dam at the Brussels Opera La Monnaie; Händel’s "Judas Maccabaeus" with the San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Bach’s "St Matthew Passion" with the Concertgebouw orkest Amsterdam ; Berlioz’ "L’Enfance du Christ" at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence; Scarlatti’s "Mitridate" at the Schwetzinger Festspiele; Debussy’s "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Nantes Opera ; Berg’s "Lulu" and Janáček’s "The Cunning Little Vixen" and "Katja Kabanova" at the Flemish
Baby Doe Law not to perform surgery on a baby with a birth defect affecting the spine and brain. Baby Jane Doe was born on October 11, 1983, in New York City, with an open spinal column, (meningomyelocele), hydrocephaly and microcephaly. Surgical closure of the defect and reduction of fluid from her brain was expected to prolong her life – perhaps extending her life from age 2 without the surgery, to age 20 with it – but she was still expected to be bedridden and paralyzed, to have epilepsy and kidney damage, and to have severe brain damage. The parents, who were Roman