Prisoners hit high note with Puccini project
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Prisoners in Ireland and Italy have embraced the world of opera for an innovative project which will see sets and costumes designed and made by them used in a full-scale commercial production of Puccini's "La Boheme".
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âMonsters and Prodigiesâ by the Mexican company Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes gives a zany account of the century of music ruled by castrati.
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A number of performers are questioning the traditional expectations of chamber music, causing mixed reactions among the purists and the newcomers.
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A wrenching musical play about North Korea's prison camps drew a standing ovation from a high-powered Washington audience -- a reaction activists said hoped would focus attention on human rights even as the world grapples with Pyongyang's threat of a nuclear test.
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The Ambitious Orchestra is one of several musical projects trying to draw younger, hipper music lovers to concert halls.
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The vitality, quality and variety of classical music performances during 2004 are encouraging.
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A Festival Stabat Mater di Pergolesi e cantata di Mozart
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Il maestro inaugurera' Festival Pucciniano a Torre del Lago
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Â· More prisoners being held in police and court cellsÂ· Slopping out returns as repairs are cancelled
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Hundreds of South African prisoners, who have been in jail since the apartheid era, are hoping to reclaim their freedom by convincing the government that their crimes were politically motivated.
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Arts & entertainment: Collection of poems written by prisoners in the cells of GuantÃ¡namo Bay made public in UK for first time
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A pair of former Sing Sing inmates who performed "Twelve Angry Men" behind bars took in the current Broadway production on Thursday.
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One of America's most notorious  prisons, Sing Sing, could do more than lock up dangerous  criminals, local officials say.
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Through hunger strikes and protests, militant inmates in Morocco have won perks â including use of the conjugal rooms â that make them the envy of the other inmates.
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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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To mark the occasion of composer  Steve Reich's 70th birthday, three of New York's heaviest  hitters -- Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn  Academy of Music (BAM) -- are collaborating on programming for  the first time.
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A 6-foot flower arrangement. Children's letters. A harp made of matchsticks. From inmates at prisons he has visited to diplomats from one of the few countries he hasn't, an ailing Pope John Paul II is being flooded with get-well gifts.