Tenor walks off stage at La Scala
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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 Metropolitan Opera has canceled plans to offer performances through on-demand television, a rare miscalculation in its march to show operas on screens of all sizes.
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For opera fans, the sight of rattled tenor Roberto Alagna storming offstage after being booed at Milan's La Scala was stunning. But for those who don't follow opera, what was really stunning was the booing itself.
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Thousands of mourners filed past  the open coffin of Luciano Pavarotti in the cathedral of his  Italian hometown on Friday, bidding farewell to the tenor whose  death prompted emotional tributes from around the world.
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Italian conductor Riccardo Muti pulled out of a production at the Royal Opera House in protest over changes in stage scenery, infuriating senior staff at Covent Garden.
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Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley was taken off life support Monday, nearly a week after an apparent suicide attempt left him with a severe brain injury.
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Tenor Roberto Alagna broke his contract by walking out of a performance of Franco Zeffirelli's "Aida" at La Scala after being booed, and he will not sing for the remaining scheduled performances, a spokesman for the opera house said Monday.
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Italian opera star Luciano  Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his  generation, was in a serious condition on Wednesday after a  battle with cancer, media reported.
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The actress due to share the role of Maria in The Sound of Music leaves the Andrew Lloyd Webber production.
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Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who has been battling cancer, leaves hospital after more than two weeks.
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NEW YORK - The man could sing. Oh, how he could sing, and now he can team up and tune up with the angels. As a tenor, he was in their league for decades.
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A versatile showmanÂs final local act is a disappearing one.
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Luciano Pavarotti will make his first  public appearance next week since an operation to remove a  pancreatic cancer in July forced him to cancel a tour, but will  not sing, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
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Opera singer Robert Merrill, famed for his appearances at the New York Yankees' stadium, has died.
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Rocco Buttiglione, the Italian nominee to the European Commission whose views on homosexuality resulted in an impasse with MEPs, yesterday decided to step aside.
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Argentine ballet great Julio Bocca danced into retirement Saturday before tens of thousands of cheering fans, ending a brilliant quarter-century run on the world's most famous stages.
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Toscanini forbade it. La Scala's management discouraged it. But the "encore" calls from the balconies proved too much for Juan Diego Florez to resist.