Tenor cedes to encore calls at La Scala AP via Yahoo! News
Toscanini forbade it. La Scala's management discouraged it. But the "encore" calls from the balconies proved too much for Juan Diego Florez to resist.
Tenor's encore breaks with La Scala tradition Seattle Times
Toscanini forbade it. La Scala's management discouraged it. But the "encore" calls from the balconies proved too much for Juan Diego Fl
Tenor Cedes to Encore Calls at La Scala ABC News
Defying Toscanini, Tenor Juan Diego Florez Cedes to `encore' Calls From La Scala's Balconies
Juan Diego Flórez Sings First Encore Heard at La Scala in 74 Years Playbill Arts
Ever since Arturo Toscanini himself held the podium there, Milan's Teatro alla Scala has had a strict rule: no encores. The continuity and integrity of the score, the music and drama as a unit, must be respected. (Today many other houses follow the same practice, most famously the Metropolitan Opera.)
Arts, Briefly New York Times
First Scala aria encore in 74 years, show of Tibetan culture is protested in Berlin, debate fuels book sales and more culture news.
In crowded presidential race, it all comes down to money USA Today
Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack has officially drowned in the demand for the highest dollar. Against him, an indaunting mix of celebrity candidates, rich candidates and early nomination contests, prompting long-shot presidential hopefuls to give up months and even years before the 2008 election.
Supporters rally to save German at SOU The Mail Tribune
German teachers from across Oregon and other advocates of the language have decried Southern Oregon University's plan to eliminate German as a major — mounting a letter-writing campaign and challenging the justification for the proposed cut.
Pre-show planning enhances opera experience Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Editor's note: Herald-Tribune features writer Susan Rife ventured into opera territory for the first time this season. The following is her review of the third and final production for 2007 by the Sarasota Opera Company.
Smith saga goes on Akron Beacon Journal
Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother filed an emergency request in Florida on Friday to block her burial in the Bahamas, hours after attorneys for the centerfold's ex-boyfriend asked a judge to step into the paternity case over Smith's baby.
Cultural events in the city Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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