Zeffirelli Opens La Scala Season
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Franco Zeffirelli was cheered and showered with roses on the opening night of his new production of Verdi's 'Aida' at La Scala on Thursday night, making his triumphant return after a 14-year absence from the ...Comment
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The new Broadway season usually doesn't get cracking big time until late in the fall, but on Thursday, Frank Wildhorn's ambitious "Dracula, the Musical," with Tom Hewitt and Melissa Enrico and directed by Des McAnuff, debuts at one of the grand old houses: the 1,010-seat Belasco, where Sondheim's 2001 revival of "Follies" played, as did Ralph Fiennes' much-lauded 1995 version of "Hamlet."
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Grande successo alla prima del teatro Milanese. Zeffirelli: 'La piÃ¹ bella serata di tutta la mia carriera'
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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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The Gladstone Gallery offers a sprawling, ebullient season opener of contemporary ceramics by 31 artists.
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Franco Zeffirelli, the legendary filmmaker  who has directed greats like Elizabeth Taylor and Placido  Domingo, will be the first Italian to receive an honorary  knighthood from Britain Wednesday.
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As twin beams of light pierced the sky above 9/11's ground zero a few miles away, New York City Opera opened its 64th season with the local premiere of a work depicting another American tragedy &#151; the powerful story of a runaway slave who commits infanticide.
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The Dallas Opera plans a world premiere of the opera "Moby Dick" as part of its first season in its new digs.
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Carnegie Hall opened its season on Wednesday with a splendid all-Richard Strauss concert that included the soprano RenÃ©e Fleming and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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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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The New York City Ballet offered the first of its annual holiday performances of this classic at the New York State Theater on Friday night.
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On Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall, James Conlon led the New York Philharmonic in its first performance of Zemlinskyâs one-act opera âA Florentine Tragedy,â based on a short play by Oscar Wilde.
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestraâs first concert of the season at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday was a solid if commonplace program that danced around late Romanticism  and the first rumblings of modernism.
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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.
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Playbill - Michael Berresse and Beau Gravitte have joined the cast  of the 2005 New York premiere of Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas' The Light in the Piazza.
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Even for those who embrace opera as a celebration of excess, it seemed almost a provocation to open the Teatro alla ScalaÂs season on Thursday with an extravagantly lavish new production of ÂAida.Â
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The company opened its season on Wednesday with a new, surely paced and essentially well-played production of Strauss' seldom heard opera "Daphne."