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Slovakian Woman Arrested For
Playing Opera Non-stop For 16 Years
By Tyron Butson
After 16 years of non- stop opera
blaring from her home, police have arrested a Slovakian woman accused of driving her neigh- bours crazy.
Hungarian news
site Parameter.sk rep orted the woman, identified as Eva, was arrested by police in the southern town of Sturovo on Monday and is now facing charges of harass- ment and malicious persecution.
The woman is accused of playing the same four minute aria from Giuseppe Verdi's 'La
Traviata' over and over again on full vol- ume from morning until night.
Local media claims the woman initially cranked up the vol- ume on her home entertainment system to drown out a neigh- bourhood dog’s loud barking.
But for some reason, she continued her assault on the senses for 16 years, with neighbours furiously accusing the woman of harassment.
"I love Placido
Domingo," one woman told Hungarian news
site Index.hu, refer- ring to the famous Spanish opera singer. “But not like this.”
“The whole street is suffering,” another resident said.
A Verdi class, La Traviata – The Fallen Woman - is adapted from the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas fils, the son of the leg- endary
author Alexandre Dumas, who penned The Three Musketeers.
The opera tells the tale of a famed cour- tesan in Paris and was made famous in the modern era when directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1983.
It’s understood the offending – and over- played – version
blasted out by the Slovakian woman was this version, star- ring Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo.
Eva has been remanded in custody and, according to local media, could face up to three years in jail if convicted.
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