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Mayor steals show at opera house Olympic ceremony

Reported by MyNorthwest.com on Monday, 23 July 2012 (on July 23, 2012)

AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) - Its not often that Placido Domingo is upstaged at the Royal Opera House. Yet flamboyant London Mayor Boris Johnson managed to pull it off at a star-studded Olympic gala on Monday night. Opera stars Domingo, Renee Fleming and Bryn Terfel were the headline performers at the opening ceremony of the International Olympic Committee session at the famous venue in Covent Garden. But it was Johnson who brought the house down with his bombastic recital _ in ancient Greek _ of a Pindaric Ode for the London Games.

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