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...Choplin became director in 2006, the historic opera house's repertoire of classic opera has increasingly taken a back seat to newer, bolder commissions in a bid to make the Chatelet stage a true crossroads for the arts. From a Bollywood-style remake of the 1923 opera-ballet Padmavati, to a stage mutation of the sci-fi horror film The Fly, the Chatelet has had opera purists hyperventilating as it seeks to tear down walls between genres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Night at the Opera with Sting and Elvis | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

Married. Princess Padmavati Raje, 19, daughter of western India's Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior; and Maharaja Kirit Bikram of Tripura, 23, powerless (since India's independence in 1947) chief of a small, warrior-caste state in northeast India; in a Bombay ceremony that was preceded by a two-mile-long procession of brass bands, clowns, torch bearers and lancemen, was attended by a brigade of India's richest princes, saw an exchange of gifts valued at some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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