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The Met's revival starring Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani commemorates the 100th anniversary of the opera's 1910 world premiere at the Met NEW YORK, April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fanciulla del West, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's 1910 world premiere at the Met, will air on THIRTEEN's Great Performances Sunday, April 24, at 12 p.m.

By TONI-LYNN ROBBINS; OF THE NEWS STAFF PORTLAND - An heir of a well-known aviation family that founded Bar Harbor Airlines is running a charter service in Portland.

By Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News Sep. 6--He was the opera singer every taxi driver and waitress could name: a big, bearded man with a golden voice, the most famous tenor since Enrico Caruso.

By NORMAN LEBRECHT HE liked to be called the tenor of the century, only to deny it vehemently "no, that's not me, that's Enrico Caruso". Luciano Pavarotti looked up to the great Neapolitan as a lifelong role model, both in singing technique and in his ravenous appetite for stardom.