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...Calatrava's passion for the project is particularly notable because opera is, in many places, a dying art. Long-established houses like Milan's La Scala, Berlin's Deutsche Oper and even New York City's Met struggle to fill seats. The reasons for opera's slow decline are legion. Classical music critic and consultant Greg Sandow points to governments' dwindling support of the arts, a paucity of singers with the ability to perform the standard repertoire, and above all, audiences that look elsewhere for entertainment...
...idyllic, 1,800-m-high Swiss hamlet of Arosa wasn't already alluring enough, the addition of a sprawling $28 million spa makes it irresistible. Bergoase is the latest work of homegrown architect Mario Botta, whose commissions have included San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art and Milan's new-look La Scala opera house. The spa features sail-like steel-and-glass skylights, pictured, employs granite in abundance and is attached by a dramatic glass bridge to the recently renovated Tschuggen Grand Hotel. "I wanted the structure to have a deep, instant and intense bond with its surroundings," Botta...
Curves, that is. The model's figure keeps shrinking to new lows, so ahead of Milan's Fashion Week next month, Italy banned from its runways any body mass index under 18.5. Spain imposed similar restrictions, and Brazil--where a model died from anorexia--is also considering a ban. Here, a look at the shifting shape of the female fashion mannequin...
Twiggy A pubescent-like body won her fame in 1960s London, but with a stick-thin BMI of 14.7, she would be out of a job in Milan these days...
...death penalty are constant; Parlia-ment declarations denouncing the punishment frequent. Just down the road in Rome, the Colosseum is regularly illuminated to honor death-penalty victims, and before Summers, Italy had twice allowed men executed in the U.S. to be buried in its soil. Says Caterina Calderoni, a Milan music teacher who'd campaigned on Summers' behalf since 1998: "America is still a young society, and some values that we've developed over centuries have still not matured...