<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Rome auditorium opens Sunday as city's long-awaited new concert venue<P>AP on Yahoo!<P>ROME - Rome on Sunday will inaugurate the largest concert hall complex in Europe — three separate theaters around an open-air arena designed by famed architect Renzo Piano.<BR> <BR>The dlrs 140 million project, one of the largest undertaken in Rome since World War II, will give the Eternal City its first major-league auditorium. It will be used to showcase chamber music, opera, contemporary music, theater, ballet, and symphonic performances.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><a href=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020420/ap_wo_en_ge/rome_new_concert_hall_1 target=_blank>More</a>