| 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."
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| German baritone opera singer Fischer-Dieskau dead |
 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, died Friday. He was 86.
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| Warsaw fires architect of planned art museum |
Officials have fired the Swiss architect tapped to design an ambitious museum of modern art in Poland's capital, throwing the whole project off track. |
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| Wayne Newton sued over Las Vegas home museum plans |
 Plans to turn Wayne Newton's sprawling Las Vegas estate into a celebrity museum have shifted into an ugly legal battle citing mismanagement, animal abuse and sexual harassment.
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| Mattila withdraws from new Met Opera 'Ballo' |
Soprano Karita Mattila has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)." |
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| Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry |
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry, a museum spokesman said. The Canada Science and Technology Museum will open the "Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition" on Thursday as planned despite strong criticism from Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, who has called it an insult to taxpayers. ... |
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| Rodin Museum in Philadelphia to reopen in July |
 The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is getting ready to reopen after three years of renovations.
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| Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automaton |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A museum conservator and horologist loses her colleague and married lover of 13 years, forcing her to use the intricate restoration of a 19th century automaton and the diaries of the man who commissioned it as the means to cope with her grief. Set in London in 2010, "The Chemistry of Tears" is the 12th novel by Australian-born Peter Carey, winner of two Booker Prizes for "Oscar and Lucinda" and "True History of the Kelly Gang". ...
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| 'Newsies' choreographer draws on his background |
 Seventeen young dancers stop horsing around on the Nederlander Theatre stage as Christopher Gattelli approaches.
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| Telemann's 'Orpheus' given staging by NYC Opera |
 No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus," a work premiered in 1726 that was long lost before it was rediscovered in 1978.
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| NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine |
 Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds.
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| NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud 9 |
 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is big on bubbles.
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