The struggling Salzburg Festival is set Saturday for its cultural and commercial highlight of the year with an eagerly awaited new production of Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore", 2014's hot ticket.

Featuring the world-famous Placido Domingo, now more a baritone than tenor at 73, and Russian soprano sensation Anna Netrebko, demand for the premiere outstripped supply five times over.

For decades Greeks have enjoyed watching the latest Hollywood blockbusters and old classics under the stars.

Open-air cinemas survived Greece's real estate boom and the financial bust that followed, providing many with an affordable night out.

Two 20-something women with a gift for arts and crafts arrived at Miley Cyrus' homecoming concert with identical bedazzled shirts that read, "R.I.P. Hannah Montana."

Look no further than that for the official theme to Cyrus' Bangerz Tour, a pastiche of weird culture that plays a lot like a YouTube channel devoted to absurdist performance art. With a flying hot dog, a dwarf dressed as the Liberty Bell, a dozen recognizable hits and a lot of inappropriate touching, Thursday's show was a little bit pop concert, a little bit late-night pay cable and a little bit great.

If that film looks familiar there's a reason: Hollywood is relying more than ever on the cash cow that is the safe-bet sequel.

An online petition to get chart-topping parody singer “Weird Al” Yankovic to headline the highly coveted Super Bowl half-time show blasted past the 50,000-name mark Thursday, just a day after its launch.

If successful, the pitch to the National Football League (NFL) would see the 1980s pop-culture icon follow in the footsteps of Beyonce, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones in performing at the much-watched American football classic.

The British edition of "The X Factor" is coming to U.S. television.

Music entertainment cable channel AXS TV said Wednesday it will begin airing the singing contest's 11th season on Labor Day weekend.

It is known as the city of music and as a destination for fans of the music of Mozart and Brahms.

But now a musical extravaganza of a different variety is making its way to Vienna: the Eurovision Song Contest.

The French actor Alain Delon has undergone surgery after being admitted to hospital in Paris with severe back pain, French media reported Wednesday.

The 78-year-old star, who came to embody late 1960s French cinematic cool in films such as "The Samurai", had recently appeared on stage in the French capital with his daughter Anouchka in the play "An Ordinary Day".

Over the past two years, inside the high-tech sanctuary of Industrial Light and Magic, the man who built a virtual virgin jungle for the last "Indiana Jones" movie and conjured 150-foot-tall aliens for "War of the Worlds" has been confronting his most difficult task yet: creating a digital version of the beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that could realistically interact on screen with Megan Fox.

On this assignment, Pablo Helman needed more than just turtle power.

Take one Oscar-winning British actress. Add an appealing supporting cast. Lather on the picturesque French countryside. Sprinkle liberally with gorgeous food shots, from bubbling, spicy Indian delicacies to perfectly composed French plates of pigeon and truffles.

And then heap on a heavy serving of corn.