By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo returned to the London stage this week for his debut in Giuseppe Verdi's "Nabucco", saying he has no plans to slow down with a packed schedule for the year ah... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced," a play about a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party spins out of control amid a heated discussion of identity and religion, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama. (Sou... [Full Article]
LONDON (AP) - Colin Davis, the former principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and one of Britain's elder statesmen of classical music, has died at 85. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CHICAGO (AP) - Strains of classical music echoed on Sunday - not inside an august concert hall - but in a bleak Chicago jail where the mostly teenage boys await trial on charges ranging from dope dealing to murder. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court on Friday annulled one of two reprimands given to a top ballet dancer by the Bolshoi Theatre after he accused it of using an acid attack on its artistic director as a pretext for a "witch hunt... [Full Article]
CHICAGO (AP) - Riccardo Muti will launch the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's planned celebration of the bicentennial of composer Giuseppe Verdi's birth by leading a special October performance of his "Requiem" that will be streamed... [Full Article]
PARIS (Reuters) - Tourists caught no glimpse of the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory or Venus de Milo on Wednesday due to a one-day closure of the Louvre, as guards protested that pickpockets were rampant at the world's most visited museum. Two hundred... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting a billion-dollar Cubist collection it says will "transform" it. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]