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The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Names in the news column: Ignoring incompetence.(Column)

Byline: Names in the news

Jun. 24--Woody Allen, directing an opera? In Los Angeles?

It will happen in September 2008, according to Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera.

The New York filmmaker will make his operatic directorial debut with the opening event of the LA Opera's 2008-09 season.

"I have no idea what I am doing," Allen said in a statement. "But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm."

Allen is scheduled to direct Gianni Schicchi, part of Puccini's Il Trittico, a trio of one-act operas.

The two other operas, Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica, will also have a movie director, William Friedkin (The ...

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