Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

* The 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for the multimedia opera La Commedia ( 2004 – 2008 ).

Radio soap opera Silver Street debuted on the BBC Asian Network in 2004.

* 1929 – Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer ( d. 2004 )

In 2004, Viola began work on a new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov.

From 19 January 2002 to November 2004, the opera company was transferred to the new Teatro degli Arcimboldi, built in the Pirelli-Bicocca industrial area 4. 5 miles from the city centre.

The opera house re-opened on 7 December 2004 with a production, conducted by Riccardo Muti, of Salieri's Europa riconosciuta, the opera that was performed at La Scala's inauguration in 1778.

* The Burial at Thebes ( 2004 ) by Seamus Heaney, adapted into a 2008 opera with music by Dominique Le Gendre.

In 2004, Jan van Vlijmen ( 1935 – 2004 ) completed his opera Thyeste.

In 2004, the four-foot ten inch López participated in the soap opera Mujer de Madera.

* Don Briscoe, television / soap opera actor ( 1940 – 2004 )

It was adapted into a film of the same title by Louis Malle in 1992, as well as into an opera ( called Damage, an opera in seven meals ) by Greek composer Kharálampos Goyós in 2004.

Much the same happened in the remodeling of Milan's La Scala opera house between 2002 and 2004.

* The Io Passion ( 2004 ), chamber opera

Several one-off recordings followed, including a 2002 duet with opera singer Filippa Giordano of the " Barcarolle " from Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d ' Hoffman as well as the song " The Sun Will Shine Again ", written especially for Lyngstad by former Deep Purple member Jon Lord, and recorded in 2004.

* The Tempest ( opera ), a 2004 opera by Thomas Adès, after Shakespeare

In 2004, the soap opera celebrated its fifteenth year by broadcasting an hour-long compilation episode entitled Fair City: The Ten Commandments.

In her 2004 autobiographical performance The End of the Moon, Anderson said she once contacted Pynchon asking permission to adapt Gravity's Rainbow as an opera.

Haitink formally stated in a 2004 article that he would no longer conduct opera, but he made exceptions in 2007, directing three performances of Parsifal in Zurich in March and April and five of Pelléas et Mélisande in Paris ( Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ) in June.

* Ring Of White Roses, a one-act light opera by Les Emmans, librettist Pat Mugridge, 1984 ; published Plays & Musicals, 2004

* Pera, Marcello and Joseph Ratzinger ( Pope Benedict XVI ), Senza radici: Europa, Relativismo, Cristianesimo, Islam Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Perseus Books Group, 2006 ISBN 0-465-00634-5, Milano, Mondadori, 2004 ISBN 88-04-54474-0

About 1. 8 million trucks crossed the Europa Bridge in 2004.

Newcastle eventually secured a place in the 2012-13 Europa League with a 2-0 win over Chelsea, at Stamford Bridge, not only a historic match in NUFC history, but one of the most amazing goals in Newcastle and Premier League history was scored by Pappis Demba Cisse ( he scored both goals in the win ) guaranteeing participation in European League competition for the first time since 2004.

She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa ( 1990 ), The Voyager ( 1991 ), Three Colors: White ( 1993 ), Before Sunrise ( 1995 ), Before Sunset ( 2004 ), and 2 Days in Paris ( 2007 ).

On 4 June 2004, the project received the Europa Nostra Award for remarkable achievement.

* De Grenzen van Europa ( 2004 )

The two banks of Mondego river at Coimbra, are linked by three main bridges: the Ponte do Açude ; the Ponte de Santa Clara ( Santa Clara bridge ), which is the oldest, and the Ponte Rainha Santa also known as Ponte Europa, finished in 2004.

Since its launch, Talksport has held the rights to the Premier League, Football League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, FA Cup, League Cup, England internationals, Euro 2004, Euro 2012, 2006 World Cup, 2010 World Cup, 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, domestic Twenty20 cricket, 2009 Twenty20 World Cup, England's winter cricket tours to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and India, Aviva Premiership, 2011 Rugby World Cup, British and Irish Lions tours to South Africa and New Zealand, Super League, Rugby League World Cup, The Open Championship, Ryder Cup, and World Title Boxing fights.

* Sleeman, Elizabeth, The International Who's Who 2004, Europa Publications, published by Routledge, 2003, ISBN 1-85743-217-7

Echo's voor een ander Europa, Houtekiet, Antwerpen, 2004

* " The European Dream ", Continuum Publishing, London 2004 ( translated from the German " Der Traum Europa, Springer-Verlag 2003, also available in Russian, Italian and Serbian ).

* Europa Publications ( 2004 ).

), " Europa Triumphans ": Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe, ( Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004 )

In 2004, Capezzone came into light: he published his second book, Euroghost-Un fantasma si aggira per l ' Europa: l ' Europa ( English translation: Euroghost-A Ghost wanders through Europe: Europe itself ); he undertook a 54-days-last hunger strike ( with the Italian Radicals Treasurer, Rita Bernardini, and the death-penalty abolitionist organization Hands Off Cain President, Sergio D ' Elia ), asking to the Italian Parliament to pass a general pardon-law ; he wrote some op-ed articles for the Italian right-wing newspaper Libero and for The Washington Times.

Murrayfield has played host to American football and was one of two home venues for the now defunct Scottish Claymores in the NFL Europa between 1995 and 2004, the other being Hampden Park in Glasgow.

Despite the poor league form, once again Pat's had another European run in the Europa League again progressing through two rounds of the Europa League, thus becoming only the second League of Ireland club ( after Cork City in 2004 and 2005 ) to achieve such progress in two consecutive European campaigns.

* Benoît Cazenave, Yvon Delbos, in Hier war das Ganze Europa, Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätte, Editions Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2004.

* Europa: I suoi fondamenti oggi e domani ( 2004 ) ISBN 88-215-5286-1

As Neely ( 2004 ) concludes, there was no effort to engage in " total war " against civilians, as in World War II.

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

The house was opened to the public in 1833, but continued to be occupied by Scott's descendants until 2004.

The last of his direct descendants to inhabit Abbotsford was his great-great-great-granddaughter Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott ( 8 June 1923-5 May 2004 ).

In 2004, Pope John Paul II's efforts to unite Europe were honoured with an ‘ Extraordinary Charlemagne Medal ’, which was awarded for the first time ever.

In Managua, Nicaragua, the Albertus Magnus International Institute, a business and economic development research center, was founded in 2004.

On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

He was forced to resign his managing general partner post in the late summer of 2004.

Though a losing season, this was a 26-game improvement over 2004, and sufficient for second place in a woefully weak NL West, five games behind the San Diego Padres.

The first was 24 February to 12 March 2004.

A convertible version of the DB9, the DB9 Volante, was introduced at the 2004 Detroit Auto Show.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

In 2004 it was moved to Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay, in India ), to make it more accessible to the populations of Asia and Africa.

Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).

The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.

During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).