LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – The famed opera Iphigénie en Tauride today achieves a goal never envisioned by Cluck two hundred thirty years ago. Iphigénie en Tauride will be aired live across U.S. movie theaters Saturday, bringing the New York-staged opera to America’s heartland, enchanting audiences from coast to coast. With start time at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST, Iphigénie en Tauride features the reunited Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo in their famed roles. Also returning is the beloved tenor Paul Groves.

When Iphigénie en Tauride took to the stage in Paris in 1779, it became Christoph Willibald Gluck’s fifth opera for the French stage. A German staging two years later became Gluck’s last opera before his death.

And while Iphigénie en Tauride was a hit in 1916 season of the New York Metropolitan Opera, it did not return until 2007. This year it was updated and reintroduced to New York audiences. New York news critics have praised it ever since.

Today’s Iphigénie en Tauride live performance is part of the Met’s “Live in HD” series. Much like telecasts of recent sporting events, today’s opera will be simulcast live into movie theaters. Patrick Summers conducts.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Catherine Zeta-Jones exclaimed that she was punched by paparazzi Thursday. Catherine Zeta-Jones was assaulted by photographers in London after attempting to enter her hotel with husband Michael Douglas. The shocking video (see below) was exposed last night to Entertainment News viewers. It does not show all the allegations.

Catherine Zeta-Jones was in town to receive top honors from the English crown. On Thursday, Zeta-Jones was given the honor of Commander of the Order of the British Empire. That evening, she was given an assault by British press.

Zeta-Jones’ rep told news that the trip and ceremony was “fabulous”, with the exception in which she was punched.

The video is quick but during it Catherine shouts “He punched me! I want a police officer right now. He punched me!” No arrests were made. No injuries were reported.

The hotel staff didn’t seem so interested in the matter. “Do you know which one it was?” said one man. Another said “just stop it. Stop it. You had your pictures, now get out.”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Twitter outage today has been resolved. Twitter went down Saturday morning before dawn but the social networking site is back to normal. News reports state users experienced the outage starting at 3 am EST / 1 am PST today. Three hours later, the outage was still be reporting.

LALATE experienced the outage roughly one hour ago during its coverage of Shakira’s nominations for the Billboard Latin Music Awards. When trying to see if the hitmaker had tweeted the news of her thirteen nominations to fans, Shakira’s twitter account, along with twitter accounts of other nominees like Enrique Iglesias, were unresponsive.

But as of 7 am PST 10 am EST, Twitter is back to normal.

Strangely, during the time of the outage, third party application sites like Bit.ly were still fully functioning. Remote posting to Twitter through third party websites was not interrupted during the outage period Saturday.

One week ago, Twitter confirmed changes of UberMedia and other sites as to their applications: “On Sunday, Twitter reinstated access to the applications twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter), which were suspended on Friday for policy violations.”

Twitter added “Our initial review indicates that steps have been taken to remedy the violations for these applications. We will review these applications on an ongoing basis for compliance. We will review UberSocial for iPhone and UberCurrent, two other applications suspended on Friday, when they are provided to us.”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Rihanna and Ciara beef revealed this week was all because of one subject: fashion. Rihanna and Ciara’s beef turned ugly before both hitmakers finding called a truce. But while news are not quite clear what arresting behavior prompted the twitter award in the first place, it all started during Ciara’s appearance on the campy E! broadcast “Fashion Police”.

During the television broadcast, Ciara told news that Rihanna recently disrespected her at an awards show. Apparently Rihanna watches “Fashion Police” because, soon thereafter, she took to Twitter to commence the war, telling Ciara that she’s not … the only girl in the world.

“My bad ci, did I 4get to tip u? #howrudeofme” tweeted Rihanna back to Ciara. Ciara fumed, up’ing the beef with “Trust me Rihanna u dont want to see me on or off stage.”

Jabbing back was RiRi calling Ci no gangsta.

“U gangsta huh? Haaa.” “Good luck with bookin that stage u speak of.” And just like that, after the two had brought themselves to the top of twitter news faster than any Chris Brown and Raz-B feud, the beef was over.

“Ciara baby, I love u girl! You hurt my feelings real bad on TV!” Rihanna said with sincerity. “I’m heartbroken! That’s y I retaliated this way! So sorry! #letsmakeup.”

Ciara came back with digital hugs. “Rhi u know its always been love since day 1! Doing shows/everything. you threw me off in that party! Apology accepted. Let’s chat in person.”

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CORAL GABLES (LALATE) – Shakira dominated the Latin Billboard (Los Premios Billboard) 2011 nominations released this week. From Shakira to Chino y Nacho and beloved Espinoza Paz, the Los Premios Billboard nominations showcase the best in Latin Music over the last year.

Hitmakers Enrique Iglesias and Shakira lead the nominations with fourteen and thirteen nominations, respectively. Last year’s top winners, covered live on LALATE, were Aventura and Tito El Bambino. This year Dominican sensation Juan Luis Guerra and Camila picking up ten nominations.

LALATE favorites Chino y Nacho scored nine awards including New Latin Artist of the Year. And Billboard confirmed a very broad spectrum of talent in Songwriter of the year which included LALATE favorite Espinoza Paz, along with talents Anthony “Romeo” Santos of Aventura, Daddy Yankee, and Horacio Palencia Cisneros.

The awards air April 28 en vivo on Telemundo direct from University of Miami.

Shakira most recently heated up news with her love life as well. Shakira is reportedly dating Gerard Piqué, the Spanish soccer player for FC Barca, who she first met for 2010’s hit music video for Waka Waka.

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