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Thirty years after his dramatic feature JFK, innumerable interviews and an untold number of related texts, you might have thought Oliver Stone had had his say on the Kennedy assassination.

NEW YORK -- Ten years ago, Jonas Kaufmann didn’t hesitate when asked if he was ready to take on heavy Wagnerian roles like the hero of “Tristan und Isolde.”“I don’t want to get into the history books as one of the youngest Tristans ever, and who lost his voice right after,” Kaufmann, then 41, told The Associated Press.

On Mother’s Day 2020, The Tenors unveiled their special musical tribute to moms, “Mother”.

READ MORE: Andrea Bocelli: Competition to meet the Italian tenor and moreBocelli continued in his tribute to his mother: "She who, through divine grace, lives the generous mystery of birth, the sacred plan of giving shape and consciousness to clay. "She, force and breath of the world, the most powerful messenger of Heaven, who teaches us what love is and what it is like.

The Dallas Opera is starting an online subscription streaming service.Thedallasopera.tv launched Monday with a recital by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and “Vanished,” a three-part art film with tenor Russell Thomas, countertenor John Holiday and music by Gluck, Monteverdi and Janácek.

Celine Dion is applauding the singing chops of this trio.

"The Fray,” John Smith (Thirty Tigers)Handclaps break out during the first song on John Smith's new album, as if to applaud the sentiments to come.“The Fray” is the British singer-songwriter's response to the year just past, and he offers 12 tunes of resilience, devotion and hope, with determination in the lyrics and buoyancy in the music.“It has been a crazy year; where do I begin?” Smith sings, his sandpaper tenor a voice of recovery.There's a comforting sway to the album's melodic folk-pop,

READ MORE: Andrea Bocelli teases another live show with daughter Virginia BocelliGive it a couple of years and Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You, which is just behind on 73 weeks, will most likely take over. Aside from My Way, Bocelli also highlighted his own hit song with Sarah Brightman as one of his favourite tracks.

If you don’t know him, we’d say that Camilo is easily one of the ten hottest artists in Spanish language music right now. It’s his moment!

Philip B. Price, "Oceans Hiding In Oceans” (Signature Sounds)The title is apt.

WME says it’s in “substantive discussions” with the WGA to end their 21-month battle over packaging fees and the agency’s affiliation with a related production entity, Endeavor Content.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorAfter a nearly two-year standoff, WME is closing in on a settlement with the WGA that will allow the powerhouse agency to resume representing writers.WME and its parent company Endeavor acknowledged in a statement Monday that the sides have been making progress.

Former Vox writer Matthew Yglesias said Tuesday that he caused an uproar within the liberal site's offices earlier this year by pitching a story about some good news: police killings of African Americans are on the decline. In a post on his site Slow Boring, Yglesias criticized what he called a tendency by progressives to exaggerate problems for fear of appearing insufficiently committed to a cause.

Emotions were running high in the I’m a Celeb camp last night as Russell Watson celebrated his birthday.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine recently opened up to his fellow campmates on about his battle with two brain tumours.The tenor, who has performed for both and Emperor Hirohito of Japan at the Imperial Palace, even revealed he was close to death before receiving surgery. While both incidents happened over a decade ago, Russell can still recall the details of the traumatic experiences.

ITV reality show.Former Strictly Come Dancer pro AJ Pritchard said to Olympic runner Sir Mo Farah and author Giovanna Fletcher that he couldn’t boil water because the pots and pans hadn’t been washed, and he asked ex EastEnders actor Shane Richie to clean some pots.But in retaliation Shane said he couldn't clean the pots without hot water.Talking about Shane in the Telegraph, AJ said: “His response was 'I need boiling water to do the washing up.' "Well we need pots and pans to do the boiling

Michael Ball & Alfie Boe are on course for their third UK Number 1 album together but have Korean boyband BTS to overcome to secure the top spot.

I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!The tenor joined the ITV show for its new-look Wales-set series alongside theatre star Ruthie Henshall in Wednesday night’s episode (18 November).Watson, whose career as a tenor has earned him numerous awards, has generated a dedicated fanbase over the past three decades.Fourteen years ago, in 2006, Watson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. After being successfully treated, he was diagnosed with a second tumour the following year due to a sudden regrowth that

Like many people, Nigella Lawson has spent much of 2020 at home in pyjamas.

AC/DC have stormed to Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with their new album Power Up.

I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!'s late arrivals.The tenor joined the ITV show for its new-look Wales-set series alongside theatre star Ruthie Henshall in Wednesday night’s episode (18 November).Watson, whose career as a tenor has earned him numerous awards, has generated a dedicated fanbase over the past three decades.Fourteen years ago, in 2006, Watson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. After being successfully treated, he was diagnosed with a second tumour the following year due to a

Gwrych Castle.The admission comes as the classical singer was unveiled as a late entry into I'm a Celebrity camp tonight.The 53-year-old headed into camp earlier with Ruthie Henshall - in scenes to be shown on ITV tomorrow.North Wales Live spoke to Russell earlier ahead of his arrival into the camp at Gwrych Castle in Abergele.The tenor revealed he already knows "a little bit about the castle" and possibly visited it as a child.He said his parents used to bring him to North Wales "all the time"

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine kicked off with a bang last week with ten famous faces all ready to tackle whatever and throw at them.

On “Pine Needle Fire,” Georgia soul man Randall Bramblett's warm, weathered tenor gives voice to average folks who are hanging on, and he provides a beat to keep them going.Bramblett laments mortality, the rat race, co-dependency and misplaced passion. His solution? Dance those blues away.Nearly everything comes with an irresistible groove, as has been the case for most of Bramblett's 45-year recording career.

When mid-October feels like March eleventy-ninth, do we really need a TV show to remind us — and not particularly accurately — what April and May felt like? Netflix’s new anthology drama Social Distance is the latest series to mine stories from the quarantine — and the latest to yield more pyrite than gold.

Famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli has released a new track off his upcoming album, Believe.

Sky News about how he fought back after battling not one, but two brain tumours.His first shocking diagnosis was in 2006, which was successfully treated, but he faced a second tumour in 2007 which could have seen his life come to an untimely end.He explained: ‘It was dangerous because the tumour grew very quickly.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticTen years ago, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and thousands of their shows’ most loyal fans took over the National Mall to throw their support behind a common cause. Having skewered American politics for years — Stewart with flustered liberal rage, Colbert with a barely hyperbolic spoof of conservative pundits — the pair was fed up with the polarization of politics that seemed to be taking over their every waking moment.

The Leonard Cohen estate has said that it is “exploring … legal options” after Donald Trump used the musician’s song ‘Hallelujah’ during the finale of his Republican National Convention speech last week.It has now emerged that the Trump campaign requested specific permission to use the song in a live performance at the RNC event, which was denied.

Just because Spago isn’t broken, that doesn’t mean Wolfgang Puck isn’t interested in fixing it. Loath to rest on his laurels, the James Beard-winning chef explains that he has decided to completely rejigger his 30-year-old flagship, despite its continued success, since he’s fully aware of the danger of waiting too long.

Austria next week. The famed tenor will receive the honor on Aug.

LOS ANGELES -- Ellen DeGeneres apologized to the staff of her daytime TV talk show amid an internal company investigation of complaints of a difficult and unfair workplace. “On day one of our show, I told everyone in our first meeting that ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ would be a place of happiness — no one would ever raise their voice, and everyone would be treated with respect,” DeGeneres wrote.

ROME — Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli apologized on Wednesday for appearing to belittle the coronavirus by saying he didn’t know anyone who had gone into intensive care, comments that angered many and set off a storm of criticism on social media.In a video on Facebook, Bocelli asked forgiveness for any suffering, saying “it was not my intention to offend those who have been struck by COVID.”Speaking at the Senate on Monday, Bocelli said he believed the situation could not have been as serious as

ROME — Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on Monday issued a scathing criticism of the Italian government’s handling of the coronavirus, saying he was humiliated by a recent lockdown, and urged people to disobey rules still in place.

In May, Def Jam launched Def Jam Africa, a new division based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria focused on the continent's hip-hop, Afrobeats and trap talent. Just two months later, the division is expanding into three new markets in French-speaking Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Cameroon. The expansion brings additional A&R, marketing and digital resources to parent Universal

coronavirus — the “pandamnit,” as Ely calls it — the West Texas troubadour began digging through his backlog of songs that had not yet found a home. The material served as the foundation for “Love In the Midst of Mayhem," 10 open-hearted tunes about honesty, hope and healing.