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'Why us?' cry artists as Berlusconi slashes budget at La Scala opera house
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A ONE-WORD chorus is rising up from Milan's La Scala opera house,
albeit sung sotto voce: "Vendetta''.
Staff and artists at the theatre accuse the losers in a power
struggle which engulfed it last spring of enlisting Silvio
Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, to get their own back.
Announcing a plan for euros230 million ( pounds 127 million) cuts
in Italy's arts budget last month, Mr Berlusconi singled out La Scala
for attack as a prime example of wasteful funding of the arts. Op...
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