Dominique Meyer to head Vienna Opera
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Dominique Meyer has been chosen as the new director of Vienna's renowned State Opera, the government said Wednesday.
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Peter Gelb, the president of the Sony Classical recording label, was chosen Friday to succeed Joseph Volpe as the Metropolitan Opera's general manager.
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Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella will write the libretto and direct a new work by composer Osvaldo Golijov that has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.
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Gerard Mortier, currently the director of the Paris National Opera, will succeed Paul Kellogg, who leaves in May as general and artistic director.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra's 105th season will open as planned this week with celebrated soprano Renee Fleming singing works by Wagner, Strauss and Dvorak rather than the silence once feared from a labor dispute.
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NEW YORK - To promote its first season under its new general manager, Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera will give away 3,000 free tickets to Friday's dress rehearsal of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly." The tickets will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 10 a.m.
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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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Gerard Mortier, currently the director of the Paris National Opera, will succeed Paul Kellogg.
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Gerard Mortier will succeed Paul Kellogg, who leaves in May as general and artistic director.
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Rome, Italy (Sports Network) - Former Roma player and German national team coach Rudi Voeller has accepted Roma&#39;s offer to become its new head coach.
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The final verdict on the Vienna State OperaÂs resuscitation of ÂSonnambulaÂ may not be in, but with Anna Netrebko singing the lead, the outlook is good.
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La pellicola rappresentata al Theater an der Wien di Vienna
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who will be appointed to head the I.M.F. on Friday, will inherit an organization struggling to find a purpose in a vastly changed financial world.
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In opera, singing well is the best revenge. Neil Shicoff, savaged by the local media this summer for his bid to become director of the Vienna State Opera, celebrated a triumph Sunday on the stage of the same establishment. And no wonder. While there may be doubt about his managerial abilities, he is among the world's top tenors on a good night Â and this was one of them.
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The Los Angeles Opera's upcoming season will feature several productions directed by famed filmmakers including Woody Allen, David Cronenberg and William Friedkin.
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The Vatican chose a new bishop on Monday  to take over an Austrian diocese from Kurt Krenn, who resigned  after a child pornography scandal rocked the Roman Catholic  Church in the Alpine state, Austrian TV reported.
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VIENNA, Austria  Â Good operas, like fine wines, can improve with age. And so it is with the Vienna State opera staging of Verdi's "La Traviata."