'Tosca' Outscores Wizards

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Friday's premiere of "Tosca" at the Kennedy Center was hardly your typical opening night at the opera: After praising all by name who had contributed to an enthusiastically received production, superstar tenor Placido Domingo, the Washington National Opera's general director, called out the night's historic winning score for the Wizards basketball team at the MCI Center across town.

Also, one of the evening's three "celebrity supers" - silent walk- on supernumeraries of distinction - turned out to be Lorenzo Ascoli, a vocalist and guitarist with a rock 'n' roll band called Misspent Youth as well as a prominent banker who is on the opera board. He was disguised for the occasion as an archbishop.

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'Tosca' Outscores Wizards

And how often does the august Librarian of Congress James Billington appear anonymou...

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