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Saudi opera singer Sawsan Al-Bahiti opening the event with the Kingdom’s national anthem, which was sung in operatic style.
Saudi Al-Bahiti renders Saudi national anthem in operatic style
Saudi Gazette reportRIYADH – The Ministry of Culture organized a concert on Friday proved a major draw with Saudi opera singer Sawsan Al-Bahiti opening the event with the Kingdom’s national anthem, which was sung in operatic style. Al-Bahiti received a standing ovation for her rendition.The Italian opera "La Scala" by the Teatro Alla Scala Academy performed at the King Fahd Cultural Center here, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said Saturday.Over 3,000 spectators, including artists, poets and those interested in musical arts attended the much-sought-after event.The Teatro Alla Scala Academy, which debuted in Riyadh on Friday, is one of the most famous opera houses in the world.Dating back to almost 250 years, the academy offers world-class training in all disciplines of symphony,...
June 15, 2019

Saudi Al-Bahiti renders Saudi national anthem in operatic style

In this file photo taken on Jan. 11, 2000 Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti (R) jokes with Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli during a press conference in Rome, three days before the first presentation of Giacomo Puccini's
Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director, dies at 96
ROME — Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the world's greatest opera singers and brought Shakespeare to the cinema-going masses, has died. He was 96. In a statement, his foundation said he died in Rome on Saturday. "Ciao Maestro," said the announcement.Often appreciated more by the public than critics, Zeffirelli was the last of a generation of Italian film giants who came of age after World War Two, including Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica.He directed more than two dozen films, working with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, Faye Dunaway, and Jon Voight."Franco Zeffirelli, one of the world's greatest men of culture, passed away this morning," Dario Nardella, the mayor of Zeffirelli's...
June 15, 2019

Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director, dies at 96

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event about expanding health coverage options for small businesses and workers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, Friday. — AFP
Trump gets harpooned for 'Prince of Whales' spelling error
WASHINGTON — There he blows again. President Donald Trump's erratic spelling habits on Twitter spouted again Thursday when he wrote about having recently met with the "Prince of Whales."That would be Charles, Prince of Wales, whom he met last week at World War II commemorations in Britain.The error prompted a wave of hilarity online, with one Twitter critic asking if the president had made the mistake "on porpoise."Trump, who is an enthusiastic user of social media and has some 61 million Twitter followers, quickly corrected the original tweet. But his new version did not change another inaccurate reference, this time to the "Queen of England."Elizabeth II, who hosted Trump at a state dinner in London, is actually queen of Great Britain and Northern...
June 15, 2019

Trump gets harpooned for 'Prince of Whales' spelling error

Workers carry a painting believed by some experts to be Caravaggio's
Art expert stakes reputation on 'lost' $170 million Caravaggio
PARIS — Art expert Eric Turquin is not only convinced that a canvas found in the attic of an old house in southwest France is a Caravaggio — he believes it is a revolutionary masterpiece.France's leading authority on Old Masters paintings has staked his reputation on the assertion that the work — left forgotten under an old mattress for 100 years — is the fiery Italian artist's lost "Judith and Holofernes".The painting depicting a grisly biblical scene of the beautiful Jewish widow Judith beheading a sleeping Assyrian general will be displayed in Paris on Friday before it goes under the hammer on June 27 in Toulouse, the city where it was discovered five years ago.Turquin said it should sell for between 100 and 150 million euros (up to $170 million)."Not only...
June 14, 2019

Art expert stakes reputation on 'lost' $170 million Caravaggio

A rare gold boxing glove made to commemorate Muhammad Ali's
Muhammad Ali's autographed gold glove fails to sell at Turin auction
TURIN, Italy — A rare gold boxing glove made to commemorate Muhammad Ali's "Fight of the Century" against Joe Frazier in Madison Square Garden nearly 50 years ago failed to find a buyer in an auction in Turin on Thursday.The glove was produced by Everlast to promote the world heavyweight title fight on March 8, 1971 during which Ali suffered his first defeat.But it failed to get an offer for the 5,000-euro ($5,637) asking price at Sala Bolaffi in Turin.The glove returns to the collection of its Italian owner, Ezio Scime, a former record company owner, who was in the front row of the fight in New York."We had ringside seats, between Woody Allen and Frank Sinatra," recalled Scime."We were so close that when they punched each other we were covered in splashes of...
June 13, 2019

Muhammad Ali's autographed gold glove fails to sell at Turin auction

Scotland's Joanne Love and Fiona Brown during Women's World Cup training at the Allianz Riviera, Nice, France. — Reuters
Fowl ref! Scotland bring out the rubber chickens at World Cup
PARIS — Scotland's hopes of reaching the last 16 at their maiden women's World Cup were dented by defeat to England in their opener but they have responded by bringing out their secret weapon for their next game against Japan — rubber chickens.Footage posted on the Scottish national team's Facebook site showed players haring around the training field in a bizarre game of tag in which they attempt to avoid being touched, or in some cases whacked, by the squeaky rubber fowl."Do not get touched by the chicken," yells a coach in one of the videos as attacker Fiona Brown smacks a teammate over and over with it.The Scots will hope to get their campaign back on track with a win over Japan on Friday and forward Lisa Evans said there was much to build on from their...
June 13, 2019

Fowl ref! Scotland bring out the rubber chickens at World Cup

File photo shows Katherine Johnson receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. She provided pivotal contributions to American space flight research alongside Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.
NASA renames street for 'hidden' black women mathematicians
WASHINGTON — NASA has renamed the street outside its Washington headquarters to honor three black female mathematicians whose pioneering work on the agency's early space program was chronicled in the film "Hidden Figures".Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson provided pivotal contributions to space flight research from the 1940s through to the 1960s, when the United States first sent men to orbit and then walk on the Moon.Despite their achievements, all three had to confront the racial segregation of the era.They were among dozens of African-Americans, both male and female, who worked as mathematicians and physicists for the US space program, even as they were forced to use separate bathrooms from whites, and were barred from the same restaurants and schools...
June 13, 2019

NASA renames street for 'hidden' black women mathematicians

Fans of the Avengers arrive for a costume contest before the first screening of
No 'Endgame' for Marvel fan: he's seen 'Avengers' film 110 times
Los Angeles — A Marvel fan in the United States is doing his part to help "Avengers: Endgame" become the highest grossing movie in history -- he's seen the superhero blockbuster a whopping 110 times, possibly setting a new Guinness record."I work 10 hours, watch end game 2 times on weekdays at least 6 hours," said Agustin Alanis in a message on Twitter on Monday that was accompanied by a picture of himself and a theater attendant holding his 110th ticket stub for the movie.Alanis' feat beats another record set last year by Anthony Mitchell, who saw "Avengers: Infinity War" 103 times, which got him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records and a trip to the "Endgame" set.Alanis, who lives in Florida, has been chronicling his trips to see...
June 12, 2019

No 'Endgame' for Marvel fan: he's seen 'Avengers' film 110 times

Bruce Springsteen
California nostalgia as Springsteen introduces new sound
Washington — The sun setting over an open road, small towns down on their luck -- and a horse galloping through the desert? The Boss is back, and bigger than ever.Bruce Springsteen will release his first new album in five years on Friday, calling it a "jewel box of a record.""This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character-driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements," Springsteen said.He still belts out melancholy ruminations on the American condition in his signature gravelly voice, but in this his 19th album his inspiration has changed.Instead of small Rust Belt towns worn down by the decline of the economy and morale, he turns to southern Californian country-pop classics of the 1960s and 70s, infusing his music with a deep...
June 12, 2019

California nostalgia as Springsteen introduces new sound

French pastry chief Jessica Prealpato of the Plaza Athenee hotel poses in her restaurant's kitchen for a portrait in Paris. — AFP
Inventor of guilt-free desserts is world's top pastry chef
PARIS — Her desserts are often not at all sweet and she couldn't give a fig if people complain that they don't look great on Instagram.But that did not stop Jessica Prealpato being named the best pastry chef on the planet Tuesday by the World's 50 Best Restaurants ranking.The 32-year-old French woman, who is about to have her first child, is the creator of a whole new genre of guilt-free patisserie.For Prealpato it is not about how a dessert looks, it's how it tastes -- and the feelgood glow afterwards.The subtle and sublime creations she turns out at the three-star Michelin restaurant of the Plaza Athenee hotel in Paris are a rebuff to the sugar-rush burn of food porn.Yet even she has not dared to have her father -- a patissier forged in full-on sugar worship of French...
June 11, 2019

Inventor of guilt-free desserts is world's top pastry chef

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