Zeffirelli Opens La Scala Season
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One of the season's most anticipated cultural events, Franco Zeffirelli's production of Verdi's 'Aida' opened the La Scala opera season Thursday night.Comment
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The ballet's opening night featured an exhilarating debut by Sofiane Sylve, and "Liturgy," a mesmerizing piece by Christopher Wheeldon.
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The new Broadway season usually doesn't get cracking big time until late in the fall, but on Thursday, Frank Wildhorn's ambitious "Dracula, the Musical," with Tom Hewitt and Melissa Enrico and directed by Des McAnuff, debuts at one of the grand old houses: the 1,010-seat Belasco, where Sondheim's 2001 revival of "Follies" played, as did Ralph Fiennes' much-lauded 1995 version of "Hamlet."
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestraâs first concert of the season at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday was a solid if commonplace program that danced around late Romanticism and the first rumblings of modernism.
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The corruption trial of former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi and British tax lawyer David Mills, has opened in Milan on Tuesday.
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The company opened its season on Wednesday with a new, surely paced and essentially well-played production of Strauss' seldom heard opera "Daphne."
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MILAN, Italy - Tenor Roberto Alagna marched off the stage at La Scala when the audience booed him during the second performance of Franco Zeffirelli's &quot;Aida.&quot; He was replaced seconds later by his understudy, who rushed on wearing jeans.
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By David Whetstone  First-rate opera made in the region. That's the prospect this week as Sir Thomas Allen directs Don Giovanni at The Sage Gateshead. David Whetstone reports.
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The Broadway show sees its first significant cast change.
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Alan Gilbert is part of a one-two punch of dynamic new conductors facing New York audiences this fall.
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Milan's La Scala opera house in Italy has reopened after a three-year renovation with dazzling displays both on stage and off.
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The Metropolitan Opera said on   Wednesday it would broadcast six live performances to movie   theaters in North America and Europe starting on December 30 in   a bid to broaden its audience.
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Tra i presenti Prodi,Zeffirelli,Bono Vox,Bocelli,Jovanotti
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Itâs always an event when a tenor takes on Otello for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Venice's Fenice Opera House hosts its first performance since it was gutted by fire in 1996.
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Franco Zeffirelli, the legendary filmmaker  who has directed greats like Elizabeth Taylor and Placido  Domingo, will be the first Italian to receive an honorary  knighthood from Britain Wednesday.
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Milan's world-famous opera house La Scala re-opens after a three-year closure for renovation.