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| Bryn Terfel’s abrupt withdrawal from Covent Garden’s Ring cycle has split the world into non-operagoers who admire him for putting family ahead of career and the opera community which accuses him of betraying his colleagues and his art by abandoning the biggest show on earth. |
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| 13.09.2007 / La Scena |
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| MODENA, Italy (Reuters) - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, whose unique, pristine voice and charisma brought opera to the masses, died of cancer on Thursday aged 71.
"There were tenors, and then there was Pavarotti," said Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli. |
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| 13.09.2007 / Reuters |
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| The world on Thursday mourned the death of Luciano Pavarotti, Italy’s most revered tenor, who popularised opera in a career spanning five decades.
Mr Pavarotti died at his home in Modena early on Thursday, aged 71, after a year-long struggle with pancreatic cancer. Messages of condolences poured in for Nicoletta Mantovani, his widow and former assistant who was half his age. |
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| 13.09.2007 / Financial Times |
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| The Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in Modena aged 71.
The tenor, who helped take opera to a new mass audience, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and underwent further treatment in August 2007.
His manager, Terri Robson, said Pavarotti died at 5am today.
"The maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterised his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness," Mr Robson said in a statement. To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 13.09.2007 / The Guardian |
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| World renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in the northern Italian city of Modena.
The singer, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, was 71.
His charismatic performances - particularly alongside fellow tenors Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras - helped bring a new audience to opera.
Pavarotti had cancer surgery in July 2006 in New York, five months after his last performance. He had not made any public appearances since then. |
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| 13.09.2007 / BBC News |
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| This year's BBC Proms season has attracted a record number of people to its concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall.
Organisers said more than 272,000 people had booked tickets, beating the previous high of 265,000 in 2001.
There was also a 5% increase in ticket sales compared to last year. |
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| 13.09.2007 / BBC |
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| Time to break out the swanee whistles, don your Union Jack hat and polish up your sea shanties. Yes, the annual flag-waving jamboree that is the Last Night of the Proms is upon us once more, and you're not getting in without a very large kazoo.
Of course, unless you've been camped outside the Albert Hall in London for the past week or are a generous sponsor of the Last Night, you're probably not getting in anyway on Saturday, no matter how big that airhorn you're wielding. But the question is, would you really want to? |
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| 13.09.2007 / Glasgow Herald |
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| How soon we forget the great ones who were walking among us, it seems, only the other day.
Wednesday will mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the eminent Hungarian conductor Georg Solti, at 84.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is planning a brief noontime observance that day in the Solti Gardens area of Grant Park. It is to include spoken tributes and a performance by a brass quintet from the CSO. That seems the least the institution can do to honor one of its great music directors and an important conductor who established the orchestra among the world's symphonic elite. |
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| 13.09.2007 / Chicago Tribune |
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| President Hugo Chávez has thrown his weight behind a scheme which brings classical music into Venezuela's slums, following international acclaim for the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. The Venezuelan leader announced the creation of "Misión Música", a government-funded effort to give tuition and instruments to 1 million impoverished children. To read this article try: Login email: info@concert-hall.com. Password: proklassika |
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| 13.09.2007 / The Guardian |
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| A forensic expert in Vienna says he believes Beethoven was inadvertently killed by his own physician, who overdosed the musician and composer with lead.
Christian Reiter, the head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at Vienna's Medical University, claims his detailed analysis of strands of Beethoven's hair has led him to this conclusion. |
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| 13.09.2007 / CBC |
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