The Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was the most famous and influential conductor of the first half of the 20th century.Arturo Toscanini was born on March 25, 1867, in Parma, Italy, the...
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A strike by La Scala's 800 workers forced the opera house on Thursday to cancel a second performance of Verdi's "Requiem" led by principal visiting conductor Daniel Barenboim."Requiem" was to have ...
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Rose Bampton, a soprano who performed 18 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and established herself as a premier voice in American opera, has died. She was 99.Bampton died Tuesday in the Philadelphi...
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Dec 7 (Reuters) - Milan's La Scala opera house, whose
history is intertwined with Italy's, launches its 2007-2008
season with Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" with Daniel Barenboim
picking up the bat...
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Jan 9 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 16 since 1900: 1920 - The prohibition era began in the United States when a
ban on making and selling alcohol c...
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9:30 a.m. Long Island Rail Road/Long Island Bus Committee meet at the MTA Headquarters at 347 Madison Avenue.
11 a.m. Congress members Anthony Weiner, Nydia Velazquez, Greg Meeks, Jerry Nadler and...
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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2007. There are 349 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 16, 1920, Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to t...
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Daniel Barenboim and his fellow musicians received shouts of "bravi" after the open dress rehearsal, but the ticket-buying public won't get to enjoy Verdi's "Requiem" on Friday: La Scala's 800 empl...
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Dec 12 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events
that have occurred on December 19 since 1900: 1950 - The North Atlantic Council named General Dwight
Eisenhower as Supreme Commander for A...
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Classical music may be a last bastion of formality, but practically everyone at the New York Philharmonic calls its new music director just "Alan."Alan Gilbert, a 40-year-old native New Yorker, was...
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Here along the Amalfi Coast, dramatic panoramas of rocky cliffs hanging over the sea are everywhere.But the views from the town of Ravello - perched above the gulf of Salerno - feel like a shortcut...
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Arturo Toscanini
La Scala strike cancels second concert
