World News 08-12-2004 who: Silvio Berlusconi what: Attends gala re-opening of world-famous opera house where: La Scala, Milan when: Last night snippet: The prime minister "watched the production of Antonio Salieri`s Europa Riconosciuta, the first opera staged at La Scala in 1778," says the BBC. Giorgio Armani, Umberto Eco and Sophia Loren were present but "the occasion was not quite as illustrious as the theatre authorities had hoped," says The Guardian. "They had invited the Queen and presidents George Bush and Jacques Chirac, among others. Instead they got King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway, and the president of Switzerland." [... more]

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