Milan's refurbished opera house La Scala set for reopening
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Milan's La Scala opera house is set to reopen its doors to the public on December 7 with a gala event after undergoing two and a half years of renovations often mired in controversy.
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The Italian media heaps praise on Tuesday's re-opening La Scala opera house, after a three-year closure for renovation.
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The last two frescoes painted by  Renaissance master Michelangelo are to be restored to their  original brilliance, the director general of the Vatican  Museums said on Wednesday.
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Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen after restoration in November 2009, a year behind schedule, after emergency work to save it from collapse, officials said on Thursday.
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One of Italy's most famous bell towers needs rescuing.
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Milan's La Scala opera house reopened on Tuesday after a three-year renovation with dazzling displays both on stage and off.
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Italians rejoiced last night as La Scala, the world's most famous opera house and revered shrine of Verdi, Rossini and Bellini, reopened in grand style after a controversial three-year renovation.
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Milan will commemorate 10 years since the  murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace by hosting a red  carpet evening at La Scala opera house with a homage to ballets  he helped design -- including &quot;Sudden Death.&quot;
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Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen in 2009, a year behind schedule, after building work saved it from collapsing.
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The trial of Silvio Berlusconi resumes in Milan as Italy's former prime minister is treated for a minor heart complaint in hospital.
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By Craig Jarvis, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--Opera Company of North Carolina is opening its doors again during rehearsals for "Don Giovanni" in a Cameron Village storefront.   Opera-lovers and the curious can drop in at the former Figs building, 2018 Clark Ave.
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The Apollo Gallery, one of the glories of the Louvre Museum in Paris, will throw open its art treasures to public gaze again from November 27 after a 4.5-million-euro (5.9-million-dollar), three-year makeover.
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Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen  after restoration in November 2009, a year behind schedule,  after emergency work to save it from collapse, officials said  on Thursday.
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SYDNEY, Sept 20 (Reuters Life!) - The Sydney Opera House   has undergone a major external renovation, the first since it   opened in 1973, to keep to its original design philosophy of   making visitors feel part of the glistening harbor outside.
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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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There was basically one reason the Metropolitan Opera dusted off its drearily realistic, unbecoming old production of Pucciniâs âManon Lescautâ and brought it back to the house for the first time in 18 years on Tuesday night: the soprano Karita Mattila.
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Arts & entertainment: As the Millennium Dome prepares to reopen as a vast leisure complex, former creative director Stephen Bayley gives his verdict on its rebirth.