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...All the big-hitters are here — a new and presumably epic production of Aida, Zeffirelli’s Carmen and Madama Butterfly, a “pyrotechnic” Il Barbiere di Siviglia and gala events with Plácido Domingo and Jonas...
...For Santo Domingo I drive down to NYC, visit with friends and family and then fly direct to Santo Domingo. Those flights are something of a party. What’s the first thing you do when you arrive?...
...Other projects include two metro lines valued at a total of more than R$15bn; a R$3bn monorail, the world’s first mass transit system of its type; hospitals; and a R$1.5bn contract to “digitise” classrooms...
...Mr Gomes paid R$3m to have Plácido Domingo, the Spanish tenor, open an events centre. … But impunity in Brazil has a more sinister side....
...The package – designed to cover the R$38bn shortfall left by the lapsing of the CPMF, a blanket tax on financial transactions – includes some R$20bn in spending cuts....
...Four decades after Jimi Hendrix, these critics seem to find it almost daring that a black artist would choose to deal in rock rather than R’n’B or rap....
...In a Datafolha poll at the end of May, voters were divided into those earning up to R$700 (US$306) a month (about half the population), between R$700 and R$1,750 (another third of the population), and above...
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