Proud Italy awaits La Scala opening with bated breath
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Italy's cultural cognoscenti were waiting with bated breath for the reopening of the La Scala opera house, restored to its former glory after a sumptuous 61 million euro (81 million dollar) makeover.
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BORMIO, Italy  - The world championships reach  their climax on Sunday with an inaugural team event, which  organizers hope will emulate the success of the Davis Cup in  tennis and the Ryder Cup in golf.
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Italy host champions France in the Six Nations opener in Rome on Saturday.
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LORETO, Italy : Pope John Paul II defied the elements and debilitating illness to pray for the victims of the Russian hostage crisis at a giant open-air mass in Italy before hundreds of thousands of ecstatic followers.
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Itâs always an event when a tenor takes on Otello for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera.
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The German Opera's controversial production of Mozart's Idomeneo goes ahead despite protest fears.
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Opening night at the Metropolitan  Opera will be open to all this year -- in a live broadcast at  New York's Times Square.
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Italian composer Antonio Salieri has long been famed as Mozart's mean-spirited rival but Milan's La Scala is determined to set the record straight, giving him pride of place when the opera house reopens.
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Two Italian aid workers freed after being held hostage in Iraq receive a rapturous welcome in Rome.
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&quot;It has been a long time since Italy enjoyed a true and spontaneous feeling of joy, capable of uniting the entire nation,&quot; said the leading daily Corriere della Sera in an editorial.
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Music fans from across Italy started pouring in Thursday ahead of the MTV Europe Music Awards in Rome, which features Eminem and R&amp;B icons Alicia Keys and Usher among others.
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Italians are bracing themselves for  blood on the red carpet as Rome launches its own film festival  next month in what many see as a challenge to Venice.
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The choice of Antonio Salieri's long-forgotten opera "Europa Riconosciuta" seemed just right when La Scala reopened on Tuesday night after nearly three years of renovation.
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Wales chase their first win of this year's Six Nations as they take on Italy in Rome.
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La Scala, one of the world's most celebrated opera theaters, reopened to the public and to music Tuesday after nearly three years of renovation that cost about &#36;67 million.
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Nell&#39;intervallo de &#39;L&#39;Europa Riconosciuta&#39; due sono stati i punti piu&#39; frequentati dai vip presenti questa sera alla Scala: il palco reale, per salutare il presidente del Consiglio, Silvio Berlusconi, e il foyer dove Bruno Vespa aveva allestito in un
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A controversial new opera about Libya's  flamboyant leader Muammar Gaddafi blasted opera buffs out of  their seats at its world premiere, but music critics asked --  Where was the singing?