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You're Going Out There a Conductor.....

Posted at 1:04 PM on April 4, 2008 by Rex Levang

This is the classical who'd-have-thought-it story of the week: an indisposed tenor replaced by....a conductor.

Elsewhere online, here's an account of Jose Canseco's new opera. It wasn't published on April Fool's Day--but it does come from The Onion.

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