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  • Actress Natalie Wood appears with her husband, actor Robert Wagner, in 1980. (Associated Press)

    Natalie Wood: Coroner releases new report on actress's death

    A newly released report shows coroner's officials have amended Natalie Wood's death certificate based on unanswered questions about bruises on her upper body but were lacking several pieces of evidence and could only conclude that she drowned under undetermined circumstances more than 30 years ago.

  • Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show

    At the end of the evening, the witch was toast Sunday _ or more precisely a gingerbread cookie _ and the audience at Vienna's Volksoper loved it.

  • Wagner wins over La Scala's ardent Verdi fans

    Richard Wagner won over La Scala's ardent Verdi followers during the gala season premiere on Friday with a production of `'Lohengrin" that packed surprises -- including the last-minute arrival of German soprano Annette Dasch in the role of Elsa after two singers fell ill with the flu.

  • La Scala inaugurates season with 'Lohengrin'

    The famed La Scala opera house inaugurated its 2012-13 season Friday with the Teutonic classic `'Lohengrin" as it launched dual bicentennial celebrations of its own Giuseppe Verdi and German icon Richard Wagner.

  • La Scala: Verdi-Wagner polemics 'ridiculous'

    The dual bicentennial of the births of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner is turning into a dueling bicentennial.

  • Singer with swastika tattoo scheduled for Met

    The singer who quit the Bayreuth opera festival when it emerged he once had at least one Nazi-related symbol tattooed on his body remains scheduled to sing a new production of Wagner's "Parsifal" at the Metropolitan Opera next season.

  • Russian baritone pulls out of Bayreuth over tattoo

    A Russian baritone who was due to sing the lead role in Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" when the annual Bayreuth opera festival opens next week has withdrawn from the event after it emerged that he once had Nazi-related symbols tattooed on his body.

  • Russian quits Bayreuth festival over Nazi tattoos

    A Russian baritone who was due to sing the lead role in Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" when the Bayreuth opera festival opens next week withdrew from the event Saturday after it emerged that he once had Nazi-related symbols tattooed on his body.

  • Opera star soprano Evelyn Lear dies at 86 in Md.

    American soprano Evelyn Lear, who became an opera star in Europe singing some of the most difficult contemporary roles before returning to the United States, has died. She was 86.

  • Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera

    All the lovely singing fails to save the Vienna State Opera's new production of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito."

  • La Scala to open 2012-13 season with 'Lohengrin'

    Daniel Barenboim will conduct Wagner's "Lohengrin" for La Scala's gala season opening next December, as the famed Milanese opera house launches a yearlong musical celebration of the dual bicentennial of the births of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.

  • Inmates can't vote but count in redistricting

    Only two people voted for Danny Young in the 2005 Anamosa City Council race in Iowa. It was enough to win.

  • Recognizing voices harder for people with dyslexia

    Pick up the phone and hear, "Hey, what's up?" Chances are, those few words are enough to recognize who's speaking _ perhaps unless you have dyslexia.

  • Recognizing voices harder for people with dyslexia

    Pick up the phone and hear, "Hey, what's up?" Chances are, those few words are enough to recognize who's speaking _ perhaps unless you have dyslexia.

  • Israeli orchestra plays Wagner in Germany

    An Israeli orchestra on Tuesday broke a taboo as it played the music of Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in Germany.

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