Met Opera discussing first tour of China
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The Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China for the first time, negotiating to perform Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" there with tenor Placido Domingo to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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Reward Russia with its first Winter Olympics? Take the Games to a new Asian market in South Korea? Or return to the Austrian Alps for the first time in nearly 40 years?
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Pop star Robbie Williams will play his first concert in China later this year, joining the list of British music stars to have performed in the world's most populous country, state media have said.
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By Justin Davidson, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 25--MAYBE I MISSED THE MEMO -- the policy directive stating that the most effective strategy to achieve new English-language opera is to base it on a classic play or novel, preferably one that has already acquired a definitive film version.
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The musical will open in London later this year.
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NASA chief Michael Griffin has met with Chinese space officials and toured facilities during the first visit to China by a US space agency head, his staff said.
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NASA chief Michael Griffin met with top Chinese space officials here and toured facilities during the first visit to China by a US space agency head.
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With the NBA set to play its first ever game in China today, commissioner David Stern has hinted regular season games could be held in the country.
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Politics, morality, and military supremacy NASA officials are to visit China for the first time, with a view to possibly establishing some sort of cooperative approach to exploring space.â¦
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Travel: Take your pick of places to see Le Tour's first visit to London.
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In one of the stranger acts of globalism, the Chinese are writing Italian operas. Xiao Baiâs âFarewell My Concubineâ from the China National Opera House is touring the United States and came semistaged to Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday night.
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The Met hosts a season-opening gala, dripping with wealth and celebrity, that nearly upstages its own opera.
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Performances from New York's famous Metropolitan Opera are to be broadcast live on satellite radio.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Not long after former Sony Classical   chief Peter Gelb was named the general manager of New York's   Metropolitan Opera, he hinted that the house was pursuing ways   to expand its audience.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown will pay a three-day visit to China later this week, his first since taking office, Beijing said on Tuesday.
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A concert by the New York Philharmonic  in North Korea next week that officials say could break  cultural boundaries and draw the two countries closer will be  broadcast throughout the reclusive Communist state.