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December 5, 2011
Brooklyn ‘lands one’
Tenor picks new arena over MSG
NY Post
by Rich Calder
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With this, our final NoLandGrab post, we would like to thank all of our readers for their loyalty during the past eight years. But now that the Barclays Center will indeed become the 18,000-seat opera house that we've always hoped it would (added bonus: also future home to the world's most chichi equestrian event), we don't see the point in fighting it any longer.
Bravo, Bruce Ratner!
The World’s Most Famous Arena is getting a run for its money.
Renowned Italian classical vocalist Andrea Bocelli will shun Madison Square Garden next holiday season to perform instead at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, The Post has learned.
“It’s always a pleasure for me to play in New York, but I’m particularly excited to perform in Brooklyn for what will be my only 2012 performance in the city that has given me such affection,” Bocelli, known as “The Fourth Tenor,” said yesterday in a statement.
Bocelli had played nine straight holiday shows at the Garden, but has booked Dec. 5, 2012, at the Barclays Center — becoming the biggest name yet to be lured away from MSG to the future home of the NBA’s Nets.
Posted by eric at December 5, 2011 11:33 AM