Venice's Fenice opera rises from the ashes
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Venice's celebrated opera house La Fenice, gutted by fire in 1996, was officially reopened for opera lovers with a performance of Verdi's &quot;La Traviata&quot;, which premiered here in the mid-19th century.
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The opera is in negotiations to build a new home on the site of the former American Red Cross New York headquarters near Lincoln Center.
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Venice Film Festival  organizers suspended a war of words with their upcoming Rome  rival as this year's event kicked off in low-key fashion  Wednesday with the world premiere of Brian De Palma's murder  mystery "The Black Dalhia."
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Calling all opera lovers with a few spare millions: The house where Giuseppe Verdi wrote "Rigoletto" is up for sale.
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Elina Garanca woke up the Metropolitan Opera from its January slumbers.
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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 German Opera's controversial production of Mozart's Idomeneo goes ahead despite protest fears.
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Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in Italy and the United States, died Thursday at a hospital in Monaco. He was 95.
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Media hordes descend on the Venice Vegas of the Orient
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British film Atonement, starring Keira Knightley, raises the curtain on the Venice Film Festival.
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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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Calling all opera lovers with a few spare millions: The house where Giuseppe Verdi wrote Rigoletto is up for sale.
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The Venice Film Festival opens on   Wednesday with the world premiere of "The Black Dahlia," a   sepia-tinted throwback to 1940s Hollywood based on a grisly   real-life murder that remains unsolved to this day.
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VENICE, Italy  - Fluid motion and glorious colors provide a visual treat in Jiang Wen's sumptuous romantic fantasy "The Sun Also Rises," which screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival.
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Giuseppe Verdi's ``Aida'' fits the cliched concept of grand opera: a visual feast with big emotions, majestic scenes and an exotic touch like this love story set in ancient Egypt.
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The second film in less that a year to  focus on writer Truman Capote has premiered in Venice.
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.