Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- Gerard Mortier, left, who resigned this month as artistic director of the New York City Opera, will become Spain’s Teatro Real artistic director.

-- An Austrian museum may lose a Gustav Klimt painting worth at least $10 million that the heirs of a Holocaust victim say was looted.

-- ‘In the Heights,’ ‘White Christmas,’ ‘South Pacific,’ ‘Hair’ and ‘Little Mermaid’ appear in the 82nd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

-- The Los Angeles County Community Redevelopment Agency has commissioned an exhaustive draft vision plan for the Crenshaw District.

-- In what the buyer called ‘the bargain of the century,’ Christie’s International sold for 10 pounds ($15.40) a Russian artwork earmarked to fetch 2,000 pounds.

-- William Gibson, who wrote the play “The Miracle Worker,” about Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, has died.

-- Debate rages over Gramophone magazine’s list of the world’s best orchestras.

-- A Polish concert pianist’s skull is used as a prop in a production of ‘Hamlet’ in Shakespeare’s hometown, in honor of his dying wish.

--At Stockholms Auktionsverk, the world’s oldest auction house, a Chinese 18th century vase is sold for $269,000, more than 20 times its starting price.

-- Lisa Fung