Best of Mozart

Placido Domingo: A new success under his nose (Independent)
In New York, a headline dubbed it "The Schnozz". But Franco Alfano's opera Cyrano de Bergerac is about more than the super-sized snout that the unfortunate hero declares "precedes me by 15 minutes": it presents an unusual and thrilling challenge for its starring tenor. When it opens at Covent Garden next week - a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where it has been highly
Winner by a nose - Guardian Unlimited

Guardian Unlimited

Winner by a nose Guardian Unlimited, UK - 1 hour ago ... of the Requiem into a performable state as a favour to Mozart's widow, Constanze. ... Yet nobody has ever doubted that S ssmayr acted out of the best of motives. ...

Ice dancers take second at national competition in Texas
Rockford Register-Star - A pair of Rockford ice dancers skated themselves to quite a finish at the U.S. National Adult Ice Dancing competition in Grapevine, Texas. Jeri Wysong and Bill Barrett, both of Rockford, earned second place during the bronze-level national event at ...
Swan Lake is big ticket of new NAC dance season (The Ottawa Sun)
Wed, April 19, 2006 Swan Lake is big ticket of new NAC dance season By ANN MARIE MCQUEEN, OTTAWA SUN Russian-born New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine said it best: All leading dancers want to dance Swan Lake at least once in their careers and all audiences want to see them dance it. And so it was a major highlight today when the National Arts Centre announced Russia s famed The