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Ian McEwan plans opera version of 'Atonement'
LONDON (AP) -- It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera....
Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace
GENEVA (AP) -- Geneva's new "Parsifal" production escaped the boos heard after several recent Richard Wagner opera premieres at the Grand Theatre, with a richly colored staging accompanying music that was at times so sensuous the allegory of Christian salvation seemed destined to end in embrace....
Producer files $30M suit against Lady Gaga in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lady Gaga's spokesman is declining to comment on a music producer's lawsuit....
No charges for son over conductor's Swiss suicide
LONDON (AP) -- British prosecutors say they will not charge the son of conductor Edward Downes and his wife with assisting their suicides at a Swiss clinic last year....
Polanski lawyers seek inquiry into misconduct
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the director's 32-year-old sex case....
Influential Big Star member Alex Chilton dies
Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist who had a No. 1 hit as a gravel-voiced teen with "The Letter" and went on to influence a generation of musicians through his work with Big Star, died Wednesday in New Orleans. He was 59....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Roman Polanski lawyers file appeal, seek investigation into alleged judicial misconduct....
Top 20 Concert Tours
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers....
World music champion Charlie Gillett dies at 68
LONDON (AP) -- Charlie Gillett, a DJ and music historian who helped bring music from around the world to wider attention, has died at the age of 68, his employer, the British Broadcasting Corp., said Thursday....
The right trajectory for Spoon
NEW YORK (AP) -- Britt Daniel can't resist some dry humor when asked what it means to him that his band, Spoon, sold out a gig at New York's prestigious and spacious Radio City Music Hall weeks in advance....
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