NEW YORKIt is an opera lover’s midsummer night’s dream: a picnic blanket and blissful strains of Mozart, Verdi or Puccini in New York’s Central Park. In a nearly 40-year tradition, city dwellers converge in Manhattan’s Central Park to experience the sumptuous operatic fare ...

DUBAI (AFP) Debt-laden Dubai will build an opera house and an modern art museum, the government said Wednesday, in the first such project since the Gulf emirate was hit by the global economic downturn in 2008. The Dubai Modern Art Museum & Opera House District “aims to further strengthen ...