Security tight as Mozart production resumes
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BERLIN -- A production of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo," dropped for fear of a Muslim backlash over a scene with the severed head of the Prophet Mohammed, returned to the stage under heavy security yesterday at Berlin's Deutsche Oper.
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The thriving art world has something to teach the classical music world.
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Police tightened security at London&#39;s Wembley stadium Sunday as music fans flocked to a star-studded concert in memory of Princess Diana, a day after Britain went on maximum terror alert.
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A Festival Stabat Mater di Pergolesi e cantata di Mozart
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Security for Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival is stepped up after problems at Al Pacino's premiere.
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Security is tight in the Indian city of Mumbai on the first anniversary of the train blasts that killed 187, police say.
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A Berlin opera house condemned for  canceling performances of a Mozart work because of concern it  could provoke violence by Muslims said on Thursday it might  consider staging the production if it had security assurances.
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A cancelled opera in Berlin provokes fresh skirmishes between artistic freedom and religious sensibilities
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The opera house that dropped a production featuring the severed head of Muhammad over security fears suffered an embarrassing setback shortly before the disputed show resumes: It lost the offending prop.
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Milan's La Scala opera house is set to reopen its doors to the public on December 7 with a gala event after undergoing two and a half years of renovations often mired in controversy.
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A long-lost adagio by Beethoven will be performed for the first time next month.
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Milan's world-famous opera house La Scala is re-opening on Tuesday after a three-year closure for renovation.
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Four canceled performances of a Mozart   opera have reignited an anxious and heated debate in Europe   over free speech, self-censorship and Islam.
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PARIS, Feb. 19 -- Two masterworks that were stolen from a Zurich art museum last week were found in good condition Monday in an unlocked car parked outside a nearby psychiatric hospital, Swiss police said Tuesday. Two other paintings are still missing, they said.
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MARK COLVIN: Melbourne&#39;s Royal Children&#39;s Hospital was given the all clear this evening to resume neurosurgery, after a day of uncertainty over whether to destroy neurosurgical equipment in the wake of yesterday&#39;s Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease scare.
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The soprano Anna Netrebko, pregnant and engaged, has withdrawn from this summerâs Salzburg Festival, Agence France-Presse reported. She was scheduled to sing at the festival opposite the tenor Rolando VillazÃ³n in Gounodâs âRomeo and Juliet.â Ms. Netrebko, 36, a Russian-born Austrian citizen (right, with her finacÃ©, the Uruguayan-born baritone Erwin Schrott, 35), is in Vienna, filming Pucciniâs âBohÃ¨meâ with Mr. VillazÃ³n as her leading man. She also was to sing in Massenetâs âManon,â opening on April 4 at the Vienna State Opera, The Associated Press reported. Her manager, Jeffrey Vanderveen, said she âwill keep her engagements as long as her doctors permit it.â Helga Rabl-Stadler, president of the Salzburg Festival, said: âThe nicest reason for a cancellation is a child. Anna will receive the most beautiful bouquet of flowers from us.â The Metropolitan Opera said Ms. Netrebko has withdrawn from 10 performances of its revival of âLucia di Lammermoor,â beginning Oct. 3, but said her seven performances in Massenetâs âManonâ in December and January remained undecided.
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Rail companies will be able to add the presence of an orchestra and the cast of an opera to the litany of excuses used for delayed trains this autumn.