PARIS- Celebrated mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato packed emotion and virtuosity into the title role of Handel's "Ariodante" at the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris on Monday.
The relatively small...
LONDON- Music legend Bob Dylan has revealed that he was once addicted to heroin, in an interview taped in 1966 and only released for the first time on Monday.
"I kicked a heroin habit in New York...
VIENNA, Isabelle Le Page- Swarms of angels, flying horses and fantastic birds of paradise converged on Vienna's neo-Gothic City Hall on Saturday for this year's Life Ball.
In line with this year's...
LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Music icon Bob Dylan turns 70 this week with stars lining up to pay tribute to the 1960s folk-protest singer turned enigmatic rock legend, still touring after half a...
SYDNEY- Sierra Leone's Aminatta Forna was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 for best book on Saturday for her novel "The Memory of Love".
Judges praised the risk taking,...
CANNES, Charles Onians- Cannes film festival screenings reached their climax Saturday with a Romanian director's story of women in a parched Moroccan village who go on "love strike" to force their...
BUDAPEST- The head of Hungary's Holocaust Memorial Centre, Laszlo Harsanyi, was sacked by the museum's new board of curators at its inaugural meeting Friday, the museum announced.
Harsanyi, who...
NEW YORK, Ute Mehnert - Music icon Cher, the rare celebrity to have earned both Oscar and Grammy glory, turns 65 this week with undiminished adoration from millions of fans around the world....
CHICAGO, Mira Oberman- The stars came out to honor Oprah Winfrey in a pair of spectacular farewell shows taped in front of 13,000 ecstatic fans Tuesday as the talk show queen wraps up her 25th and...
LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Film star turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted Tuesday to fathering a lovechild with a staff member which he kept secret for a decade, until its disclosure...