Beverly Sills Resigns as NY Met Opera Chairwoman
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Former opera diva Beverly Sills has stepped down from her volunteer job as chairwoman of New York's Metropolitan Opera, citing family and personal reasons in a statement on the opera Web site on Tuesday.
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The company dedicated the first performance of its new production of Massenetâs âCendrillonâ to Beverly Sills.
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Darcey Bussell bows out on Friday at her  spiritual home, London&#39;s Royal Opera House, after more than 15  years as the queen of British ballet.
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The death of Beverly Sills was deeply felt throughout the institutions that make up Lincoln Center.
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When the Kirov Opera ends its residency at the Lincoln Center Festival tonight, Valery Gergiev will have conducted his company in two overlapping cycles of Wagnerâs âRing des Nibelungenâ over nine days.
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Leonard Slatkin, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, will step down in 2008.
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Beverly Sills, the world-renowned soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from inoperable lung cancer, her manager said.
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AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi resigned Tuesday in order to conform with a newly passed Italian antitrust law.
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Marsh & McLennan Cos. MMC.N Chairman  and Chief Executive Jeffrey Greenberg resigned on Monday, 11  days after New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused the  world's biggest insurance broker of rigging bids.
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Marsh & McLennan Cos.  Chairman and Chief Executive Jeffrey Greenberg resigned on Monday, 11 days after New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused the world's biggest insurance broker of rigging bids.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born soprano, was a genuine celebrity and an invaluable advocate for the fine arts.
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Vienna State Opera Director Ioan Holender announced Wednesday that he will step down in three years instead of looking to extend his contract.
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Italian designer Valentino, whose signature flaming red couture gowns have graced royalty, Hollywood stars and the international jet set for 45 years, announced Tuesday he was stepping down as head designer of the Valentino fashion house.
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Rose Bampton, a soprano who was a New York Metropolitan Opera mainstay during the 1930s and 1940s, has died. She was 99.
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HPÂs chairwoman will step aside in January, the C.E.O. will succeed her and the longest-serving director resigned.
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New York's Metropolitan Opera said on Friday it appointed a senior executive of Sony Music as general manager, one of the most powerful jobs in the arts and one that had been tipped for renowned tenor Placido Domingo.
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Lorin Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, is to open a run of Wagnerâs âWalkÃ¼reâ at the Metropolitan Opera, 45 seasons after making his debut at the house.