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Italy La Scala Labor

AP News 29 days ago

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2009 file photo, a general view of La Scala theater is seen prior to Daniel Barenboim conducting Bizet's "Carmen" for La Scala's highly anticipated season premiere in Milan, Italy, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. La Scala performers ...

La Scala performers protest working rules abroad

AP News 29 days ago

Audience shouts 'shame' as La Scala performers don street clothes in labor protest La Scala performers and musicians wanted management's attention when they donned street clothes for the final December performance of "Carmen." They also got the attention of the audience, which ...

CBS Cronkite

AP News 36 days ago

FILE - In this photo taken on Sept. 24, 2007, former news anchor Walter Cronkite arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2007-08 season opening gala. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File) Copyright 2010 AP News

Opera for the common man: "La Boheme" in a pub

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News 48 days ago

LONDON, Dec 23 - (Reuters) - It takes guts to stage an opera in a working man's pub in an Irish part of London, but the Cock Tavern Theater Company's production of Puccini's "La Boheme," in English and updated for modern audiences, ...

Dan Brown eyes La Scala balconies for inspiration

AP News 64 days ago

Dan Brown soaks up La Scala intrigue on opening night: Is 'The Carmen Code' next? He's already done the Vatican. So don't be surprised if Milan's famed La Scala opera house doesn't turn up in Dan Brown's next thriller. "It is quite ...

Singers applauded, director booed at La Scala opener

Reuters Life! Online Report 64 days ago

MILAN (Reuters) - Georges Bizet's "Carmen," a tale of love, jealousy and murder, opened the season on Monday at Milan's La Scala to applause for the singers but boos for the creator of its sparse staging, Emma Dante. The glamorous first-night crowd ...

Tenor Villazon chooses Vienna for comeback

AFP Global Edition 65 days ago

Mexican star tenor Rolando Villazon, who cancelled all his 2009 engagements after a cyst was found on his vocal chords, will make his comeback in Vienna in March, the Vienna State Opera said Monday. The 37-year-old, who announced last month that his ...

Kennedy Center Honors Gala

AP News 65 days ago

Kennedy Center Honoree opera singer Grace Bumbry arrives at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) Copyright 2009 AP News

Croatian conductor Vjekoslav Sutej dies aged 58

AP News 69 days ago

Croatian conductor Vjekoslav Sutej, who made career in US, Austria, Italy, dies at 58 Croatian conductor Vjekoslav Sutej, who led orchestras in the United States, Italy and Spain and worked with Placido Domingo and Montserrat Caballe, died on Wednesday. He was 58. ...

Chopard Flagship Boutique Launch in Hotel La Mamounia

Getty Images 75 days ago

MARRAKECH, MOROCCO - NOVEMBER 26: Opera singer Jose Carreras performs during the Mamounia hotel inauguration on November 26, 2009 in Marrakech, Morocco. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) Copyright 2009 Getty Images

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