Woody Allen to direct LA opera
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Woody Allen, directing an opera? In Los Angeles? It will happen in September 2008, according to Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera. The New York filmmaker will make his operatic directorial debut with the opening event of the LA Opera's 2008-09 season.
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Ellen DeGeneres has been set to host the 79th Academy Awards
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Oscar-nominated Spanish actress Penelope  Cruz is to star in the new Woody Allen film, to be shot this  summer in Barcelona, newspaper El Pais reported on Friday.
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La Scala opera house has lifted its cancellation of a production of 'Candide' that included a scene in which actors depicting President Bush and other world leaders danced in their underwear.Director Robert Carsen said there would be some modifications to the production, which was to open Wednesday night, but that the underwear scene would remain. He denied that censorship or political pressure played any role in the changes.'I wouldn't be here now if there had been any pressure because that would be against the spirit of freedom in this opera,' Carsen said, according to the news agency ANSA. Read more
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Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is to make a film about the life of George Harrison, according to reports.
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Un minidocumentario dedicato a una delle citt&agrave; piÃ¹ vivaci della Spagna. Dove Woody Allen sta girando il suo prossimo film
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After directing 1995's "The Brothers McMullen," Ed Burns was seen as a rising star. People pegged the young actor and independent filmmaker as the next Woody Allen.
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The Metropolitan Opera  will begin transmitting live performances to movie theaters throughout the United States, Canada and Europe next year as part of an extraordinary and unprecedented arrangement among the company, its unions and several media partners.
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A 69-year-old former oil tanker moored in the companyâs container port in Red Hook, Brooklyn, has been transformed into the set for an opera, âIl Tabarro,â by Puccini.
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Oscar-nominated Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is to star in the new Woody Allen film, to be shot this summer in Barcelona, newspaper El Pais reported on Friday.
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The Los Angeles Opera is to stage  its first "Ring" cycle of four classic Wagnerian operas, thanks  in part to a $6 million gift from businessman Eli Broad who  wants to boost the city as cultural destination.
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Woody Allen has found a  partner in Spain. Producer-distributor Mediapro has signed a  pact to finance and co-produce three Allen films during a  three-year period beginning in 2009. His sister Letty Aronson's  Gravier Prods. also will produce.
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The San Francisco Opera on Tuesday announced its own plan to transmit operas to movie theaters using a system it says is superior to that of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Woody Allen has been awarded $95,000 in legal fees in a dispute with his former producer.
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David Gockley will become general director of the San Francisco Opera after three decades of running the Houston Grand Opera.
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Variety - Jason Moore, the Tony-nominated director of "Avenue Q," will direct Broadway hopeful "Shrek -- The Musical."
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A couple of odd shows are planned for the Los Angeles Opera's '08- 09 season.  First there's consummate New Yorker Woody Allen, who has agreed to fly to L.A.