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Wandsworth Prison inmates have spent weeks rehearsing for the nine-date show, developing confidence and new skills in the process. The musical is being produced by Pimlico Opera, which has been staging productions in prisons for 16 years. Les Miserables follows 19th Century ex-convict Jean Valjean as he struggles to redeem himself. (02/03)
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Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ...
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John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ...
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It's my favorite show! I love it!” says 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, speaking of Sex and the City over spinach-artichoke dip in a dingy Toluca Lake restaurant ...
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At the Consumer Electronics Show this year it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident ...
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Showbiz, they say, is 90 per cent business and 10 per cent show?. But there is no denying the fact that without the 10 per cent show there is no business ...
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Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the "biggest rip-off merchants in the world" after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ...
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It's good to highlight inventions that, while flawed, show where things may be headed. One worth watching is the “Comes With Music” program just announced ...
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Radiohead_social As their former label readies a greatest hits compilation to showcase their past, Radiohead continue to forge an innovative path into ...
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Juan Luis Guerra, a songwriter from the Dominican Republic, was the big winner at the eighth annual Latin Grammy Awards last night. His “La Llave de Mi ...
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The Victoria and Albert Museum's new exhibition devoted to the style and fashion of Kylie Minogue is the most popular show in the museum's history before ...
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If you click on show detailed artist info on a torrent page it will show a list of similar artists, other albums from the same artist, upcoming concerts ...
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A long-lost opera by Antonio Vivaldi was to have its first performance in centuries last night. Argippo, discovered by a Czech musician as he rummaged ...
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World-famous cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who has been recuperating in a sanatorium outside Moscow, has been hospitalized again, a source ...
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Two recent incidents of booing are the talk of the opera world, a hothouse of passionate debate if ever there was one. First, boos rained down on Placido ...
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A "symphony" comprising music from some of the most popular video games will be performed in Sydney next year after sell-out shows in the US and Europe. ...
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The Who's first studio album in over 25 years will also be released alongside a compilation of Pete Townsend's rock opera, 'The Boy Who Heard Music'. ...
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Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut _ without rehearsal _ in a nationally broadcast performance and went ...
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Opera lovers and classical music aficionados have long lamented the particular difficulties they face in organizing their music in digital programs and ...
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David Gockley unveiled a different sound and look for the San Francisco Opera on Monday, announcing a season -- the first he's planned as general director ...
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At a time when the San Francisco Opera is looking to shore up its finances, the company has received $35 million from longtime patron and supporter Jeannik ...
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The theater director Robert Wilson has been faithful to his artistic obsessions for more than four decades. Starkly arresting visual tableaus, dramatically ...
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Early last year Robert Lepage visited Australia to perform his one-man show, The Andersen Project, as part of the Sydney Festival. In it the writer-director-performer ...
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The prospect of witnessing Cecilia Bartoli in an important a new role was probably the greatest draw, but the Zurich Opera House's new production of Handel's ...
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Anna Netrebko, as you might expect from one of the hottest divas in the world, is hopelessly late. I spend the time chatting to the doorman at the opera ...
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Technology to the rescue. Given the spectacular cost of making new recordings of familiar operas, we are likely to continue to listen to the great singers ...
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Katherine Jenkins, the 26-year-old opera singer, wore a dress made of 2,500 poppies to help launch the appeal. The Welsh soprano said it was becoming more ...
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