La Scala regains her voice after facelift
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Italians rejoiced last night as La Scala, the world's most famous opera house and revered shrine of Verdi, Rossini and Bellini, reopened in grand style after a controversial three-year renovation.
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Vivica Genaux, an international star, particularly in the early-music world, is making her return to New York opera.
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Opera star Roberto Alagna, who left La Scala's stage after being booed, claims he had low blood sugar.
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An American soprano fired by the Royal Opera House because of her weight has been rehired after undergoing stomach surgery and losing 135 pounds, her spokeswoman and the prestigious theater said Sunday.
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Singer Liza Minnelli is to return to the stage after collapsing during a performance in Sweden last month.
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Bago restored the lustre to his reputation with a sensational return to form in the Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomphe Lucien Barriere at Longchamp today.
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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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The Metropolitan Opera is bringing in the chief makeup artist from âSaturday Night Liveâ for its production of âHansel and Gretel.â
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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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This live recording was made when the prominent dramatic soprano returned to her native Hungary in 1988 to give a concert of Italian arias at the Budapest Convention Centre.
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Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, regarded  by many as the greatest of his generation, hopes to return to  the stage early next year after undergoing surgery for  pancreatic cancer, he said in an interview.
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A decade ago Paula Westâs dark, clotted vocal sound was her main calling card. Today the power of that sound is matched by a probing musical intelligence.
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A new technique is helping re-animate the faces of patients with severe long-term facial paralysis, doctors say.
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A year and a half after receiving the world's first partial face transplant, Isabelle Dinoire said the operation has given her a normal life again, though she felt a part of her identity has disappeared.
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The Italian media heaps praise on Tuesday's re-opening La Scala opera house, after a three-year closure for renovation.
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Even for those who embrace opera as a celebration of excess, it seemed almost a provocation to open the Teatro alla ScalaÂs season on Thursday with an extravagantly lavish new production of ÂAida.Â
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - It's been some time since Queen  Latifah found herself behind the mic.