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Italy set for 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
AFP, Published on 06/02/2026
» MILAN (ITALY) - The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics officially open with a star-studded opening ceremony at the San Siro Stadium on Friday.
Vienna State Opera opens season with free, all-star gala concert
AFP, Published on 08/09/2025
» VIENNA — No dress code, no stiff atmosphere and no entry fees: Thousands flocked to a Viennese park Sunday as the Vienna State Opera opened its 2025-26 season with a star-studded open-air gala concert for the first time.
New York's Met stages Spanish opera for first time in nearly a century
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» NEW YORK - For the first time in nearly a century, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City will stage a performance in Spanish on Thursday, as the company works to expand its appeal to wider audiences.
Washington says goodbye to pandas amid bitter US-China backdrop
AFP, Published on 28/09/2023
» WASHINGTON - No matter the distance or the weather, Jane Christensen was determined to see the giant pandas before they left Washington.
Naples fetes Italy's great tenor Caruso with new museum
AFP, Published on 20/07/2023
» NAPLES (ITALY) - A century and a half after his birth, Italian tenor and opera legend Enrico Caruso is finally being celebrated by his hometown of Naples with a new museum.
Silver hopeful of new NBA-union deal ahead of Friday deadline
AFP, Published on 30/03/2023
» NEW YORK: NBA commissioner Adam Silver says he is hopeful of reaching a new collective bargaining agreement with the players' union by a Friday deadline after progress in ongoing talks.
Combative spoiler enters Turkey's election campaign
AFP, Published on 25/03/2023
» ISTANBUL: Turkey's top politicians have formed two camps heading into May's election: those who revere President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and those united in the single goal of ending his two-decade rule.
Wayne Shorter, esoteric jazz elder, dies at 89
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» NEW YORK - Wayne Shorter, the storied saxophonist considered one of America's greatest jazz composers and among the genre's leading risk-takers, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 89.
Pene Pati: the Samoan Pavarotti
AFP, Published on 06/07/2022
» AIX-EN-PROVENCE (FRANCE): Pene Pati remembers his teachers at university telling him: "Don't be ashamed if you don't make it because a lot of Pacific singers won't." In fact, they added, no one from Samoa had ever become an opera star.
Patriots and arias: Italian opera seeks Unesco recognition
AFP, Published on 17/05/2022
» NAPLES (ITALY) - Opera originated in Italy, it was sung by Italian patriots and some of the world's greatest arias came from the peninsula. Now Rome wants credit where credit is due.