Frenchman to head famed Vienna State Opera
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Frenchman Dominique Meyer has been named  the new director of Vienna&#39;s famed State Opera, the Austrian  government said on Wednesday.
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A court has ordered heirs of composer Richard Strauss to share royalties with the heirs of librettist and poet Hugo von Hoffmansthal for nine collaborations, including the popular operas "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Elektra."
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France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announces his intention to run for the presidency next year.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 10 (IPS) - The European Union's finance ministers have  decided that Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn should head the  International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite calls for the post to  be opened up to candidates from poor countries.
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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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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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When the Kirov Opera ends its residency at the Lincoln Center Festival tonight, Valery Gergiev will have conducted his company in two overlapping cycles of Wagnerâs âRing des Nibelungenâ over nine days.
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Opera in Denmark has a new home after a wealthy businessman signed over a 2.5 billion-kroner (336 million euro, US$417 million) opera house on Copenhagen's waterfront to the government Friday.
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Sport: Former French international has emerged as a surprise contender for the managerial vacancy
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Gerard Mortier, currently the director of the Paris National Opera, will succeed Paul Kellogg, who leaves in May as general and artistic director.
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MODENA, Italy  - Luciano Pavarotti, whose  effortless tenor voice and powerful stage presence dominated  opera for decades, plans to bow out like a superstar with a  40-city tour that will end with his retirement.
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The race for the French presidency will move up a gear this week with the official investiture of Segolene Royal as the Socialist Party's (PS) candidate and with Nicolas Sarkozy throwing his hat into the ring for the right-wing UMP party's nomination.
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Gerard Mortier, currently the director of the Paris National Opera, will succeed Paul Kellogg.
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The artistic director of the Glimmerglass Opera is stepping down.
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Characteristics and traditions of French dance were on display at the Paris Opera.
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The Los Angeles Opera is to stage  its first "Ring" cycle of four classic Wagnerian operas, thanks  in part to a $6 million gift from businessman Eli Broad who  wants to boost the city as cultural destination.
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France's embattled wine industry is to receive a multi-million euro aid package  to make it more competitive.