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Article: Placido domingo in New York next up for dale?
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- South Wales Evening Post
- Article date:
- October 12, 2007
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What would you do with pounds48,000 - buy a new car, pay for some
DIY on the house, or treat yourself to something special?
Neath snooker ace Dominic Dale has certainly pushed the boat out
since winning the Shanghai Masters - and who can blame him?
It was the 36-year-old's first ranking tournament victory in a
decade and the biggest prize-winning cheque of his career so he
treated himself and his girlfriend to a night at the opera.
But for classically-trained singer Dale, this was no ordinary
evening at London's Covent Garden.
He and his partner watched one of the world's greatest tenors,
Andrea Bocelli, at Vienna's State Opera House and sat in the seats
once occupied by the last Emperor ...