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The grand Opera House in Damascus was built to stage the best artists in the Arab world, but instead it lies dormant most of the year, falling victim to the bloody civil war that has engulfed Syria since 2011. (May 6)
SOUNDBITE (English) Lama Sallouh, Opera House Director:
"Well, in fact the war is affecting everybody and everything in the country. This is a fact that we cannot deny. But still we are working, trying at least to work in our very normal...
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Highlights from Australian Fashion Week
1. Pan from Sydney Opera House to harbourside fashion week venue
2. Boat on harbour
3. Sydney harbour bridge
4. Various models backstage having make-up and hair done
5. Various highlights of Jayson Brunsdon show
4. Model, Helena...
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Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs concert to mark 100th anniversary of WW1
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo on Saturday to commemorate 100 years since the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an event which triggered World War One.
Thousands...
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ITALY: PUCCINI OPERA "LA BOHEME" PERFORMED AT ROME'S SUMMER FESTIVAL
Italian/Eng/Nat
Puccini's best-loved Opera, 'La Boheme' is celebrating its 100th birthday this year and is being performed at Rome's famous summer festival.
This year the festival has been forced to abandon its traditional venue inside...
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USA: CHINESE PRESIDENT JIANG AND PRESIDENT CLINTON SUMMIT (3)
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
U-S President Bill Clinton and his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin held a summit in Washington on Wednesday in which they continued to forge a closer relationship between the U-S and China.
But the issues which have...
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EGYPT: AIDA TO BE PERFORMED IN HATSHEBSUT TEMPLE
Luxor and Cairo, Egypt, October 12th 1997
Luxor
1. Tilt down of Hatshebsut temple
2. Mid shot of Hatshebsut temple
3. Close up of Hatshebsut temple
4. Tourists getting off a bus
5. Attendants walking to the show
6. ...
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Carpenters, Donna Summer, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet honored
The legendary Carpenters, pop icon Donna Summer and world-renowned pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet were welcomed into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame Friday night (18 JUNE), in a gala ceremony including performances by all three honorees....
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Pop star Anhy Hui performs with Hong Kong orchestra
1.William So and Andy Hui singing on the stage, pull out to concert
2. Mid shot of the presser (left to right) Yip Wing-Sie,the conductor, Andy Hui and William So
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Andy Hui:
"It feels fantastic to be a conductor...
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SKorea and US military build bridge during exercise
1. US and South Korean soldiers carrying parts of a medium girder bridge
2. Various of parts being attached to the bridge
3. Mid of soldiers extending bridge section
4. Close-up of US soldier
5. Wide of bridge
6. Soldiers assembling the...
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Dalai Lama says good can come from tragedy of 9/11 attacks
1. Exterior shot of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
2. Wide shot of press conference
3. Mid shot of actor Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama
4. Cutaway press
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Gere, actor:
"It's four years now, I realize,...
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Mariinsky Theatre celebrates its 150th anniversary
St. Petersburg, Russia - 15 September, 2010
1. Various of people seated in theatre awaiting performance
2. Wide of chandeliers
3. Close up of chandelier
4. Various of prima ballerina of Mariinsky Theatre, Viktoria Tereshkina putting on...
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UK composer Andrew Lloyd Webber auctions his wine collection
1. Wide of auction
2. Auctioneer taking bids
3. Close up of screen showing bids
4. Close of auctioneer
5. Various of people bidding
6. Set up of Head of Wine, Sotheby's Asia, Robert Sleigh
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Sleigh, Head of...
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Cruise along route expected to be taken by new king, Rutte presser
1. Mid of boats on Amsterdam canal
2. Various of canal as seen from moving boat
3. Wide of the Amsterdam Hermitage Museum on canal side
4. Wide of Eye Film Institute where King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will start their water...
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New York Philharmonic arrives ahead of NKorea visit
1. Various of New York Philharmonic Orchestra members at airport, walking through arrival area
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Nutrio, Clarinet player, New York Philharmonic Orchestra:
"I guess we're hoping that it'll have the same kind of...
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90th birthday of architect who built Sydney Opera House
FILE: Recent
1. Various exteriors of Sydney Opera House
April 9, 2008
2. Pull out from conductor of Sydney Symphony Orchestra to wide of stage with Sydney Opera House staff singing "Happy Birthday"
3. Pan of staff applauding
4....
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Hit musical returns to London
AP Entertainment
London, 21st June 2006
1. Wide shot Adelphi Theatre, London
2. Mid shot entrance
VNR - No re-use/re-sale without clearance
3. Excerpt Evita - 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina'
AP Entertainment
London, 21st June 2006
4....
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Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday; concert; Mandela and cake
1. Wide of former South African President Nelson Mandela entering with current President Jacob Zuma
2. Politician and former Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, singing
3. Wide of Mandela walking with Zuma
4. Mid of man in traditional...
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Music therapy for stressed dogs
Tokyo, Japan - 28 June 2010
1. Kanae Yokota walking in holding Chachamaru, 6 year old toy-poodle, and putting it down
2. Various of the dog
3. Yokota putting CD onto CD player
4. Yokota pressing a playing button
5. Yokota sitting down...
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: MAMMA MIA
English/Nat
Back in the dim and distant 1970s, the world pop music scene was lit up by an alliance of four musicians from Sweden, united in a taste of shiny, highly coloured and totally uncoordinated man-made fabrics. And four pairs of...
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US Defence Dept video of alleged torture chamber
1. Soldiers approaching house
2. Wide of soldiers outside house
3. Soldiers going into house
4. Soldier indication handcuffs attached to bars on window in house - zoom in of handcuffs
5. Close of handcuffs
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain...
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9020C
11.5.90 (Dur: 6mins 31secs/Engl sot: 1min 8secs)
RR STORY: A Viennese based company, International Opera
Festivals, has ventured far from home to take Mozart to
Morocco. For three weeks in May, a...
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Spanish tenor sings at the foot of the Mayan pyramid
music/video/performance rights must be cleared
AP Television
Chichen Itza, The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, October 4, 2008
1. Medium man guiding people as they walk in Chechen Itza
2. Man holding entrance ticket while walking
3. Wide of...
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Bosnia - Opera Concert
Preparations were underway in Sarajevo on Sunday (19/6) for an
afternoon UNHCR concert at which Spanish tenor, Jose Carreras, was
scheduled to sing. Star conductor, Zubin Mehta, Carreras, soprano
Cecilia Gastia, mezzosoprano Ildiko...
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UK/USA/SOUTH AFRICA: MUSIC WORLD MOURNS DEATH OF YEHUDI MENUHIN
English/Nat
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who thrilled his first audience when he was 7 and went on to become one of the century's leading classical musicians, died on Friday. He was 82.
Menuhin, who also won recognition for his extensive...