German officials blast cancellation of opera
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BERLIN   Pressure mounted Tuesday on the Deutsche Oper Berlin to rescind the cancellation of a production that depicted the beheading of the Prophet Muhammad, with Chancellor Angela Merkel saying 'there can be ...Comment
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Organisers trying to overturn court decision suspending free show over security concerns.
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COLOGNE, Germany  - Germany's public broadcaster has fired a conservative talk show host who praised the Nazis' "family values," a decision that drew praise from the media and high-ranking politicians.
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Every opera season demands a scene-chewing scandal to feed fansâ appetites for outsize drama, and this summer that niche has been filled in Europe by the new production here of Wagnerâs âMeistersinger.â
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A fire Monday in the roof of Bonn's opera house damaged the building facade and stage area, city officials said.
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By GEORGE JAHN BERLIN - Audience members at Monday's Deutsche Oper production of Mozart's &quot;Idomeneo&quot; will be kindly asked to empty their pockets of all metal objects. And they should be prepared to leave - quickly - in case of a bomb alert.
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Germany's biggest television network, ARD, said on Friday it planned to pull out its two correspondents in Iraq after a foreign ministry warning that German journalists could be singled out for kidnappings.
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Microsoft fired back at Opera Friday, after the maker of a for-pay browser known for its strict compliance with Web standards filed a complaint with the European Commission.
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An Italian conductor withdraws from a Royal Opera House production following a dispute over set design.
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Russian authorities say a cancelled London exhibition of major Russian and French artworks should now go ahead.
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A Berlin opera house condemned for   canceling performances of a Mozart work because of concern it   could provoke violence by Muslims said on Thursday it might   consider staging the production if it had security assurances.
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A German zoo has scrapped plans to break up homosexual penguin couples following protests from gay rights groups.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder could cancel his trip to Afghanistan in early October if the violence there escalates, a government source said after a rocket attack on a German-run reconstruction team.
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Barbra Streisand has canceled a Rome concert that would have launched her European tour, but organizers said on Friday it had nothing to do with an outcry from Italian consumer groups about ticket prices.
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Germany's interior minister condemned a leading opera house's decision to cancel a production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" out of concern a scene featuring the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad could provoke a dangerous reaction from Muslims.
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Germany has told Libya that if it fails to make good on a deal to pay millions of dollars in compensation to the victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will cancel a visit, a weekly ...
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Barbra Streisand canceled her concert in Rome next month &#151; a move that followed protests by Italian consumer groups angered by what they said were excessively high ticket prices.