Maestro walks out on Royal Opera
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An Italian conductor withdraws from a Royal Opera House production following a dispute over set design.
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If the people won't go to the opera, bring the opera to them -- and when they least expect it.
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A choreographer who inspired her company and a dancer who inspired audiences is retiring from the stage after a pioneering career.
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LONDON  --  The Royal Opera House bought its own DVD recording and distribution company, purchasing Opus Arte for $11.3 million in an agreement announced Wednesday.  Covent Garden said the deal marked the first time an opera company acquired its own DVD recording business.
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Veteran comedian Sir Norman Wisdom bids farewell to the theatre after a career spanning seven decades.
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The head of the Episcopal Church left for London suddenly Wednesday to do damage control among his global counterparts as they prepare to ostracize him.
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A Rachmaninov manuscript is withdrawn from auction on after a late ownership claim from the composer's estate.
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A conductor was taken from the Metropolitan Opera House in handcuffs after a warrant was issued accusing him of owing more than &#36;100,000 in spousal support to his estranged wife in Italy.
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Conductor Lorin Maazel will return to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in nearly 45 years when he conducts Wagner's "Die Walkuere" next season.
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Life & style: In pictures: the French designer's show at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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BERLIN -- One of Germany's foremost opera houses has abruptly canceled a modern production of Mozart's ``Idomeneo" because of fears of a violent reaction to a scene showing the severed head of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Opera singer Robert Merrill, famed for his appearances at the New York Yankees' stadium, has died.
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To honor its retiring general manager, Joseph Volpe, the Metropolitan Opera threw itself one of those once-in-a-decade galas, a 5 1/2-hour marathon featuring a parade of today&#039;s reigning stars &amp;#151; along with a few from the recent past.
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Flashy as ever, Richard Virenque has climbed off his bike on the stage of the most famous music hall in Paris to bring the curtain down on his 14-year career.
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Tenor Roberto Alagna marched off the stage at La Scala when the audience booed him during the second performance of Franco Zeffirelli's "Aida." He was replaced seconds later by his understudy, who rushed on wearing jeans.
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The company has decided to leave the public markets.
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Tenor Roberto Alagna is to sue La Scala after the opera house ended his contract for storming off stage.