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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: A Night at the Opera with Sting and Elvis

Once again, the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris has given French opera critics a case of the vapors but this time, two British new wave pop stars are at the center of the uproar. Since Jean-Luc Choplin became director in 2006, the historic opera house's repertoire of classic opera has increasingly taken a back seat to newer, bolder commissions in a bid to make the Chatelet stage a true crossroads for the arts. From a Bollywood-style remake of the 1923 opera-ballet Padmavati, to a stage mutation ...

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11:56 on December 1 2008

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: A Night at the Opera with Sting and Elvis

All About Jazz — Once again, the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris has given French opera critics a case of the vapors but this time, two British new wave pop stars are at the center of the up... more info

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18:00 on December 1 2008

3. Sting's classical detour

Star Online, Malaysia — Sting brings his classical music project, Songs from the Labyrinth, a personal tribute to the late 16th-century Elizabethan composer John Dowland, to the concert stage in... more info

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