the reaction was not of a baby but i can guess was a reaction of a man that , due to the work stress, just reached the last drop of the glass..
and if the people from Loggione would please begin to shut the fuck up and stop boooing under payement and begin to raise theyr Intelligent Rate maybe the world of opera would have a small chance to resist this awful period.
ah @the last granny that spoke in the video... " ma vaffanculo va!" :)
@assindiastignani I agree on his singing: bad but not so much to get him all those buu. If I am not mistaken, Alagna had offended the public of La Scala few days before, stating that they were ignorant folk. They didn't take it very well... neither Alagna did, as we can see! Haha, we Italian are pretty touchy.
@quintoprocuratore Look, the point is if Thomas Hampson can sing Boccanegra title role at the MET, who can you say no to? 40 yrs. ago Alagna would have been an acceptable messaggero, now he sings Radames. Netrebko sings Anna Bolena and Donna Anna and Vollarzon sings Don Carlo. There are no standards. Anybody can sing anything anywhere, so why pick on Alagna? It's not like we had Corelli, Del Monaco, Tucker and Bergonzi waiting in the wings.
@assindiastignani Yeah, that's precisely the point! Alagna was not picked for the way he has sung, but only for what he said of the susceptible public - or a part of it, that decided to make him pay. Or maybe the public it's way too nostalgic...
@quintoprocuratore The Milanese are capricious. Besides, he didn't really get that many boo's; he could have stayed and finished the performance and would have been cheered at the end of the evening. BUT, look at the press he got for the walk-out. Little Roberto is not stupid.
@assindiastignani Ahah, sure he's not, you're right! Surely at the end the booes would have been overwhelmed by the applause, but Opera too needs this little scandals now and then, doesn't it? :D Beside, I can't help laughing every time I see Palombi walking in... "Radames wears Prada", they said... It was hilarious.
Vive robertooooo!!!!!! Je n aime pas les gens qui hue les artistes c'est un manque total de respect !! Je trouve !! Le chant ne s'improvise pas c est des heures et des heures de travails et de dépassement de sois technique et psychologique . Et je trouve cela injuste de huer car c'est renier tout le travail et l effort du chanteur qu'il a fais pour avoir ce tel niveau . Le chant n est pas que un don mais beaucoup de courage pour y arriver et cela demande bcp de volonté. C est cruel de siffle
Its cruel? Yes! BUT!! Weren't Callas, Nilsson, Sutherland, Corelli, Pavarotti, Gencer etc etc etc cruel on themselves? Weren't they sweating blood to be who they were? If La Scala stops booing we will keep listening to "money making" machines and not true singers. They feed us what sells. Its business. If we keep eating half cooked dishes like Alagna's Radames managers will keep feeding us those.
They dont even listen to critics anymore.
I feel terrible for him, but his Radames is not perfect!
@trumansf ...not only "not perfect" but WRONG for his voice! If he's not careful, he'll end up like Di Stefano -- with everyone saying "but you should have heard him back in ..." The effort to become an OPERA STAR apparently turns too many of them into egoistic freaks...
Alagna è un grande cantante, ed è una vergogna che certi buzzurri ignoranti abbiano volontariamente offeso un simile maestro. E' vero che il tono di Alagna non è il tono classico che ci si aspetterebbe in questa opera, ma non capisco davvero come si possa disprezzare una simile capacità e bellezza...
@Corilo91 purtroppo si dimentica facilmente quando un cantante ha avuto serate gloriose, basta una serata un pochino opaca che subito si dice che sei finito! è sempre pericoloso fare le prime perchè dopo un mese di prove con certi registi arrivi alla prima che sei stanco e demotivato,però vieni giudicato solo quella sera, poi puoi cantare tutte le altre recite come un Dio non conta niente. meno male che il popolo delle altre recite che rappresenta la parte non prevenuta ti rende giustizia
The management of La Scala should have been booed for casting Alagna as Radames!??? What were they thinking?? And the audience should have been kinder to Roberto for the effort (a little too much effort)
I fully understand his anger! He´s done a gigantic piece of work and the audience is in no position to boo him. How I understand his reaction. I´d probably have given them the finger as well...
personally I wouldn't boo someone off the stage, but I would probably laugh if they were. after all, it is his fault for singing a role way too big for him, though he is in all fairness a respectable tenor as a whole
@WiseMonkey888 the public didn't deserve to have such a beautiful voice and such a musician performing for them. Limited patrons deserve quick resolutions...
Grande Alagna! Una bella lezione contro l'arroganza e l'ignoranza. Ci vuole rispetto per la professione e lui si è fatto rispettare. Bravo! and by the way, è un cantate completo e un musicista come pochi.
@zizLizzz ...una bella lezione...? davvero? E il 98 % nel publico che non hanno gridato buuu??!! Scusi, ma non si deve mai punire l'innocenti. Questi poveri hanno pagato non pochi soldi per i suoi biglietti e volevano sentire/vedere Alagna. Secondo me, è stato un po' irresponsabile.
LOL! Love the temper of some Italians! Alagna wasn't singing so bad and he should have taken the boos, even though they may have been undeserved. It was great to see Palombi come out in his jeans and shirt with messy long hair -- he didn't skip a beat and seemed unfazed! A professional! - Susan
The folks that frequent La Scala like booing people because it makes them feel superior. It just makes them LOOK juvenile. I have been only once at La Scala and it was a memorable experience, but not for the music... I hardly remember if it was good or bad, but it sure wasn't memorable. There are lots of things I like about Italy, but La Scala (the productions, not the building) seem average to me. But then I WAS only there once and the rest is hearsay and recordings.
Que falta de respeto y qué cobardía. porqué no se lo hace una persona en su cara.. y que se ponga a cantar mejor y actuar en un escenario?!!. Se sienten protegidos por la multitud, y se aprovechan de la vulnerabilidad del artista enfrente de un escenario. Como las manadas de animales. En eso se convierten. Les gusta saber que los demás se equivocan para reforzar la poca autoestima y aliviar su frustración por dentro.. pobre gente. Respeto porfavor!!
Good thing he left! The stupid public at La Scala they always behave like kindergartners! They deseve his leaving and I hope he never goes back. He doens't need that bunch of idiots. He is a world-class super star.
@Miauriceful That may be true, but the people at La Scala have a reputation of being way too strict and inflexible to their performers. They once booed Pavarotti offstage, allegedly because his tone was slightly darker due to a cold that he had.
Well, I can say only this: In Italy to say that a place is excellent they say "This is the la Scala of the ...". For example, the best restaurant is La Scala of the restaurants.
Who goes to La Scala demands excellence and if he hasn't it....
@Miauriceful The idea that all La Scala performances are excellent is wide of the mark. I have heard very mediocre performances at La Scala. It certainly does not always have top notch artists in the operas it presents. On average I would think the Met in New York has better performances than La Scala.
@Miauriceful Really bad manners are too much for me. And the audiences at La Scala are so full of themselves they excel at bad manners. The folks in Milan are great at promotion however... they've been selling Fiats for years... Now THAT is promotion !!
The problem is, who today can sing Ramades as well as Pavarotti, Domingo, Corelli, or del Monaco did? We don't have those great tenors anymore. We must accept the artists we have if we are to stage new productions of great operas like "Aida".
this is a bullshit video with A FAKE EDIT. after his final note, he simply disappears off the stage. WATCH THE EDIT. This is bullshit. IT'S FAKE. WHERE DID HE GO? One moment he's on the stage and then they show an shot of the conductor, WHILE HE'S SINGING, then they go back to the stage and hes gone. Then you hear the booing. total fake.
I honestly don't know who to side with here...Alagna or the boo'ers. I think the boo'ers showed a huge lack of class and respect to someone who IS a working professional doing his job.
That said, Alagna wasn't acting professional AT ALL. I'm not going to pile on him for trying himself at a dramatic role when he's a lyric...a lot of people want to take risks in their careers, and Radames was a risk that didn't pay off for Alagna. And Alagna is a drama king which doesn't help.
@LittleMissMafdet I don't agree! Performers should be rewarded according to the quality of their performance. I once saw the Girl of the Golden West. The orchestra was superb; the chorus was excellent; the leads were good and the sopranto who played the main part was terrible. The audience cheered the orchestra; applauded the chorus enthusiastically, applauded the leads and booed the star. And they were spot on.
@LittleMissMafdet that's italy. they have done this thing from the time of Fallinelli, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini. even the Great composer Bellini was booed after his first premier of Norma..i think the world must accept it.
ma quella trrrrrr"melomane in platea" che da del bambino capriccioso ad alagna (e guardandola direi, da che pulpito) lo sa cosa si prova ad essere "boo"-ati ad una prima alla scala? non penso...come quei bifolchi di teatro che fischiano e urlano come dementi...ma smettetela, salite su un palco, oppure fate silenzio! certe volte sembra di essere allo zoo, gente che litiga da una parte all'altra del teatro...che tristezza...lasciate lavorare la gente!
? Why people are EXTREMELY primitive and doing this at the OPERA HOUSE what is almost a temple especially at LA SCALA ? Unfortunately so many envious colleague do this more than 100 years ago. PLEASE, WATCH THE VIDEO WHAT RENATA SCOTTO GOT AT THE END OF LA BOHÉME IN THE MET 1982. DISGUSTING COLLEAGUES SENT IT TO MAKE HER SICK!!!!
I don't blame him - I'd have done the same - but my gesture would have been ruder than a shaken fist!!! If i wanted to be in audience like that, i would go to a football match.. he's a terrific actor and for your information, a fabulous performance in Pagliacci.
Tal vez sea la reacción de un niño caprichoso, pero al público no le da ningún derecho a comportarse como hooligans frente a la obra de Verdi y menos en el Teatro más famoso del mundo. Si no les gustó mejor hubiesen guardado silencio.
@RobertoML72 Exactamente... pero esa gente no tienen educación. En otros teatros del mundo, cuando a la gente no le gusta algo, simplemente o no aplauden mucho o no aplauden. Tiene que ser terrible para un cantante, que le hagan algo asi. Lo que no me puedo explicar es, porque lo critican a él y nadie habla de como se comportaron esos trogloditas. Alagna no es mi preferido pero no creo que haya cantado mal como dicen.
@RobertoML72 no estoy de acuerdo,si Verdi viviera seria el primero en aventar tomates al cantante, justamente por ser la meca de la opera mundial no pueden permitirse que ese mono salga a cantar en ese calamitoso estado vocal, los tickets no valen 2 centavos , mucho de ese publico viaja de todas partes del mundo para estar en una noche Alla Scala..no se pueden permitir el lujo de que cualquier payaso cante en su escenario..
Sorry, the last one I heard of was called Giuseppe Giacomini and I'm still waiting for someone who can stand next to him without being totally shamed.
December 10, 2006. Antonello Palombi, who was pushed on stage in street clothes, was the scheduled Radames for later in the run and was, I believe, there as a cover that night (not an understudy). I've seen Palombi three times in Seattle (Pagliacci, Aida, Trovatore). No great actor, he is a solid, old-fashioned, stand-and-deliver Italian tenor. Seattle loves him!
He should not have gone on...Even Callas waited for the end of the act...His actions were childish. He should stick to lyric roles anyway if anyone cares.
@MrJohnnyNoname If there was any power missing, it must have been very slight. Alagna has a powerful voice. Perhaps not at the register of this aria.
In any case, La Scala's public is know to brook no nonsense. The demand the highest standards, and one must respect them for that.
It's a shame because I think Alagna has very nice voice. He's not a Pavarotti, but he is no worse than that nasally bloke from Spain or his miniture sidekick.
i dont know who you are saying this to or for whom, what you said is exactly what i said, in THIS ARIA, PEROPLE DINDT LIKE IT BECAUSE USUALLY IT IS SUNG WITH MORE POWER, you made it into this judgemental thing, i did not judge alagna or the public of LA Scala, soo, waht are you saying??? i just gave an explanation of what happened to someone who asked, and what you wrote only back what i said, so i think you just wanted to say something, i hope you feel good
i agree 100% and it is just what i said, i did not judge anyone roberto or the public, i just explained as plain as caould be, can you help me with something: whos that nasal bloke from spain? kraus? and whose the miniature saidekik? thanks!!
@issueagent Alagna told that the booed at him was planned before (people told he wrong a lot that night). For this reason he go out. You can see that he try to go out by right , but he saw that all was close he go out from left side :) . The opera was finished by his substitute Antonello Palombo. The woman at the end say something as "He react as like a child that had been stolen a toy". You know in Italy at a lot of people that dont understan nothing of music wanna do a sort of judge.
@elicandondo People was ridiculous!!! Celeste Aida is in the beginning of the opera, so Alagna didn't really the time to wrong. So this is a b*****t. The boooos was planned. And Alagna did well going away. I'm Italian, and I fell ashamed to be con national of those f****g idiots. But you can't speak about italians that don't understand nothing of music, because idiots like those there are in every country.
I saw the future performances of this after Roberto had returned and he was well received and sang beautifully. Typical La Scala audience really-like to think they know better than those on stage. Viva Roberto-you did the right thing at the time.
It's fair enough. 'Either you go or I go'. La Scala is left with booers and an understudy dressed in black when they could have had a performance from one of the top 3 Verdi tenors currently singing.
The audience seemed to start booing when the other performer emerged from behind....a women. I didn't listen beyond that so far .... just wondering why they booed if he sang perfectly fine. Maybe the papers are filled with scandal? Is it because of his relationship with soprano Gheorghiu?? Who knows.
My God It is just a stupid clack sitting in that audience. No music-lovers who have no clue about the efforts you do when you are singing a role like this!
The same people who booed him would have applaud him if Verdi himself would have said that he loves his interpretation.
I agree with Alagna. How can you sing when you allready in your first aria get this atmosphere. You give yourself 100% when you sing. THis is really not honest!
@rtaveen : The real question for Alagna here was: how can you sing the whole opera, when your performance is so horrible in the first aria already? I've studied music for 16 years and I'm a music lover and know it very well. I don't judge opera singer based on their marketing but based on their capacities. He can NOT sing in this opera, it's not in his possibilities. He can sing in light roles but not Verdi.
it's a hard job and the Scala public is probably the pickiest in the world. If they don't get excellence each time...they will attack. He did a good job for most opera houses and I could only dream to sing like that but it's not enough to satisfy the "loggionisti". I feel bad for him although he behaved like a total prick...it's ironic that he was playing the role of a great courageous warrior...
Was he singing for free? I don't think so, he was getting a big check to sing. If you go to a restaurant and by chance the chef had a bad day and made what you ordered salty, would you eat it any way or would you demand what you paid for?
Vendimi: Thanks for your response. I DO feel that Alagna was ill advised to sing Rhadames, especially at La Scala. He had/has no business singing such a heavy role. I too feel that he should do more lyrical repertoire. You are also right about the perception of the La Scala audience. I know that you Italians are very enthusiastic about your opera. You guys are much less inhibited than we are in America, although we've had lots of booing lately at the Met, and it was deserved.
Vendimi: America is the country of Maria Callas, Marilyn Horne, Renee Fleming, Shirley Verrett, Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, Beverly Sills, etc. The American opera public knows what a great voice sounds like. The fact that opera originated in Italy does NOT give ANY public the right to behave like ignorant boors. La Scala and Parma may be well and good, but great singers can't be blamed for not wanting to sing there. There is no excuse for such bloodsport -- it diminishes opera as art.
Look that boohing doesn't mean to ALWAYS booh: in Alagna's case, who I personally adore when singing french light repertoire, was a booh to the performance, not to the artist. Such an opera star should know his limits in the choice of a carachter or another: mr. Alagna should have been aware that singing Radames that way in La Scala means to be trown tomatoes. so they were kind. And listen: to criticize is not a bloodsport. But I understand that it presumes the people to think...
I don't blame him. The "peanut gallery" in the Italian opera houses are rude, classless, uneducated, and downright boorish. Alagna had no business singing this very heavy role, but he certainly didn't deserve such an insult. Among those booed in the past: Callas, Caballe, Fleming, Verrett, Pavarotti, and probably still others. La Scala needs to put security people in their gallery, and have them toss out the rabble-rousers. This would not happen in an American opera house.
1)Actually opera was born (in Italy) as a popular - not elitary - entertainment and the people, mostly poor, brought food and drink at the performance, and boohing was the less.
2)It won't happen in America's opera houses since the lack of culture in America is so thick that they believe Bocelli and Brightman to be great opera singers.
3) Before criticising cultures you can't live up to, develop some self consciousness.
@tuadolcefanciulla God I thought I was the only one. Bocelli especially stinks. I have no idea why people think he has a great operatic voice...oh wait, I know...he sings great for a blind guy! Sheesh!
@Vendimi3 Not all Americans think Bocelli and Brightman are great opera singers! Certainly this American doesn't. The only ones who do are probably the same people, who when you ask them have they ever been to the opera, say "Oh yes, I've seen Phantom of the Opera"! I can't tell you how many times I've heard that!
@Zva26 -Vendimi3: Another comment. The Metropolitan Opera did a "Sonnambula" last year with Florez and Dessay that was beautifully sung, but the production was the ugliest, plainest, and most disgusting you could ever imagine for this opera. The audience did a LOT of booing. These stage directors are ruining opera far more than any singer could. Could you imagine Callas or Tebaldi singing in such trashy productions?
@Zva26 Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. The production was innovative. A gain one wonders if the armchair booers could stand the heat and do better-I seriously doubt it. I have the DVD of the performance and love it. There are so many snobs who are VERY LUCKY to be able to afford opera and have the chance to see it live=I only wish they would let me have their tickets-there is always someone expecting the worst from a production and just waiting to sharpen their claws.
Por favor Alagna no cantes mas en tu carrera arias verdianas de Aida mucho menos de Otelo y Don Carlos son extremadamente dramaticas y tu voz es mas para el tipo lírico en operas como La Traviata, Rigoletto y Il Trovatore donde te luces mejor. Igual hizo el celebre Pavarotti pero se dio cuenta a tiempo del error de incluir ese repertorio a tiempo.
Alagna was booed because the ending of this Celeste Aida is a real shame, his vibrato is really a tremolo, and there is no real morendo on the last B-flat, as Verdi himself specifically wrote, just an applause-luring hiccup. Although it is true that only Corelli and (less effectively) Pavarotti have succesfully accomplished that, it is also true that La Scala's loggionisti (the "peanut gallerists") are renowned for being a bunch of uncompromising, supercilious and sometimes even rude melomaniacs
@VladaSunlight Someone said he was sick but decided to try singing anyway. It sounded fine to me. The last note is the most difficult part and sounded great!
My understanding is that few younger Italians are drawn by opera. It's very existence hangs by a thread. This kind of self-indulgence will not help matters.
io non trovo che sia incivile.. in teatro è sempre stato così,se piace : applausi. se non piace : fischi... la gente paga,è giusto che mostri il suo apprezzamento,o in questo caso il NON apprezzamento..
I just remembert when they asked maria Callas when will she return to La scala and she said "Quando il publico milanese serra piu educato"!! haa!! true!!!
@ponybcurtis , oh come on, ponyb, you understand nothing! it's the pretty librarian syndrom! The pretty intelectual type! Cant you see that the moment she takes off her glasses, her legs become extremely long? AND on top of all, since guys like you didnt realize her beauty before, she is a bit shy and relatively untouched. What could be better?
@scissoringgirls ...a woman who is actually attractive. I love the librarian-type. This woman does not qualify. Then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
This part is too big for his voice -- at least on this occasion. It's passable. If you listen to Domingo or Corelli, their voices grab you immediately with their power and intensity. Here, I was hoping that Alagna would survive to the end of the aria.
The booing was in poor taste, but quitting during a live scene with other singers on stage is unforgivable.
That doesn't seem to make sense - booing for the stage directors tends to come at curtain's open or during curtain calls, not right after an aria. Further: I see nothing wrong with this staging.
@Jaydoggy531 It doesn't make sense to me either. Not only booing of stage directors happens during curtain calls, this also doesn't look like the type of productin to get booed. This looks like a very nice production, traditional, set exactly in the place written in libretto. Traditional productions never get booed. It's quite clear it's directed at Alagna. He obviously thought so.
Italians are expressive.That is the history of the Milan house and Italian opera houses in general I do think opera goers at the Met tend to applaud everybody who opens their mouth-.And if you are a celebrity they don't care if you had an off night or not .I find the Met audience- though knowledgable- too forgiving at most times. Six of one- haf dozen of another.The scene where he is booed and walks off is not after Celeste Aida. He is on other side of the stage.Editing made it seem so.
@lpvcrcd Met audience booes bad productions. But I can't imagine booing a singer - they are doing their best, and voice is not a piano or a violin it can fail, a singer can have an off night. And no, Met audience doesn't always applaud: I once saw a really bad performance of Norma at the Met and hardly anybody applauded her. But booing - who knows why she agreed to sing the role, and maybe she was sick too. Directors are fair game, though.
I think it's strange that opera goers have to treat it like sport, watching a match, cheering and booing... why don't they just listen and not spoil it... and comment and talk afterwards... it's very bad taste, like mobile phones going off in concerts (they aren't allowed! )
actually i like alagna.
the reaction was not of a baby but i can guess was a reaction of a man that , due to the work stress, just reached the last drop of the glass..
and if the people from Loggione would please begin to shut the fuck up and stop boooing under payement and begin to raise theyr Intelligent Rate maybe the world of opera would have a small chance to resist this awful period.
ah @the last granny that spoke in the video... " ma vaffanculo va!" :)
Halfnerds 2 weeks ago
Caprino sang ghastly that night! It was a wonder the boing wasnpt worse! I was expecting rotten eggs and tomatoes to be launched at him any second...
NEBESHIKU 1 month ago
The singing certainly isn't great, but the boos are obviously claque. The question is "why?" Does anyone out there know? I'd be curious.
assindiastignani 1 month ago
@assindiastignani I agree on his singing: bad but not so much to get him all those buu. If I am not mistaken, Alagna had offended the public of La Scala few days before, stating that they were ignorant folk. They didn't take it very well... neither Alagna did, as we can see! Haha, we Italian are pretty touchy.
quintoprocuratore 1 month ago
@quintoprocuratore Look, the point is if Thomas Hampson can sing Boccanegra title role at the MET, who can you say no to? 40 yrs. ago Alagna would have been an acceptable messaggero, now he sings Radames. Netrebko sings Anna Bolena and Donna Anna and Vollarzon sings Don Carlo. There are no standards. Anybody can sing anything anywhere, so why pick on Alagna? It's not like we had Corelli, Del Monaco, Tucker and Bergonzi waiting in the wings.
assindiastignani 1 month ago
@assindiastignani Yeah, that's precisely the point! Alagna was not picked for the way he has sung, but only for what he said of the susceptible public - or a part of it, that decided to make him pay. Or maybe the public it's way too nostalgic...
quintoprocuratore 1 month ago
@quintoprocuratore The Milanese are capricious. Besides, he didn't really get that many boo's; he could have stayed and finished the performance and would have been cheered at the end of the evening. BUT, look at the press he got for the walk-out. Little Roberto is not stupid.
assindiastignani 1 month ago
@assindiastignani Ahah, sure he's not, you're right! Surely at the end the booes would have been overwhelmed by the applause, but Opera too needs this little scandals now and then, doesn't it? :D Beside, I can't help laughing every time I see Palombi walking in... "Radames wears Prada", they said... It was hilarious.
quintoprocuratore 1 month ago
pazzo
gmsoyls 2 months ago
Les personnes qui hue ne ce rendent pas compte de tout cela et j aimerai bien les voir chanté et ce faire huer pour comment ils reagiront .
soprano543 2 months ago
Vive robertooooo!!!!!! Je n aime pas les gens qui hue les artistes c'est un manque total de respect !! Je trouve !! Le chant ne s'improvise pas c est des heures et des heures de travails et de dépassement de sois technique et psychologique . Et je trouve cela injuste de huer car c'est renier tout le travail et l effort du chanteur qu'il a fais pour avoir ce tel niveau . Le chant n est pas que un don mais beaucoup de courage pour y arriver et cela demande bcp de volonté. C est cruel de siffle
soprano543 2 months ago
VIVA ALAGNA who do these losers in Italy think they are, they deserve what they got, a nobody tenor with street clothes that looks like Big Foot
tklogan111809 2 months ago
@tklogan111809 hahahah! You made me laugh out loud.
musicmuse56 1 month ago
una vergogna
sttar1982 3 months ago
Its cruel? Yes! BUT!! Weren't Callas, Nilsson, Sutherland, Corelli, Pavarotti, Gencer etc etc etc cruel on themselves? Weren't they sweating blood to be who they were? If La Scala stops booing we will keep listening to "money making" machines and not true singers. They feed us what sells. Its business. If we keep eating half cooked dishes like Alagna's Radames managers will keep feeding us those.
They dont even listen to critics anymore.
I feel terrible for him, but his Radames is not perfect!
trumansf 4 months ago 14
@trumansf ...not only "not perfect" but WRONG for his voice! If he's not careful, he'll end up like Di Stefano -- with everyone saying "but you should have heard him back in ..." The effort to become an OPERA STAR apparently turns too many of them into egoistic freaks...
Randidan 3 weeks ago
Alagna è un grande cantante, ed è una vergogna che certi buzzurri ignoranti abbiano volontariamente offeso un simile maestro. E' vero che il tono di Alagna non è il tono classico che ci si aspetterebbe in questa opera, ma non capisco davvero come si possa disprezzare una simile capacità e bellezza...
Corilo91 4 months ago
@Corilo91 purtroppo si dimentica facilmente quando un cantante ha avuto serate gloriose, basta una serata un pochino opaca che subito si dice che sei finito! è sempre pericoloso fare le prime perchè dopo un mese di prove con certi registi arrivi alla prima che sei stanco e demotivato,però vieni giudicato solo quella sera, poi puoi cantare tutte le altre recite come un Dio non conta niente. meno male che il popolo delle altre recite che rappresenta la parte non prevenuta ti rende giustizia
mrodicalp 4 months ago
The management of La Scala should have been booed for casting Alagna as Radames!??? What were they thinking?? And the audience should have been kinder to Roberto for the effort (a little too much effort)
olympicrange 4 months ago
I fully understand his anger! He´s done a gigantic piece of work and the audience is in no position to boo him. How I understand his reaction. I´d probably have given them the finger as well...
vildmedchow 4 months ago
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trudbol 4 months ago
personally I wouldn't boo someone off the stage, but I would probably laugh if they were. after all, it is his fault for singing a role way too big for him, though he is in all fairness a respectable tenor as a whole
raigekimaru 5 months ago 3
ci credo che fischiano io c'ero e faceva davvero pena
fra1979it 5 months ago
@WiseMonkey888 the public didn't deserve to have such a beautiful voice and such a musician performing for them. Limited patrons deserve quick resolutions...
zizLizzz 5 months ago
Grande Alagna! Una bella lezione contro l'arroganza e l'ignoranza. Ci vuole rispetto per la professione e lui si è fatto rispettare. Bravo! and by the way, è un cantate completo e un musicista come pochi.
zizLizzz 5 months ago
@zizLizzz ...una bella lezione...? davvero? E il 98 % nel publico che non hanno gridato buuu??!! Scusi, ma non si deve mai punire l'innocenti. Questi poveri hanno pagato non pochi soldi per i suoi biglietti e volevano sentire/vedere Alagna. Secondo me, è stato un po' irresponsabile.
assindiastignani 1 month ago
LOL! Love the temper of some Italians! Alagna wasn't singing so bad and he should have taken the boos, even though they may have been undeserved. It was great to see Palombi come out in his jeans and shirt with messy long hair -- he didn't skip a beat and seemed unfazed! A professional! - Susan
lodengreeneyes 5 months ago
Ha Ha loser
itsthemex07 5 months ago
The folks that frequent La Scala like booing people because it makes them feel superior. It just makes them LOOK juvenile. I have been only once at La Scala and it was a memorable experience, but not for the music... I hardly remember if it was good or bad, but it sure wasn't memorable. There are lots of things I like about Italy, but La Scala (the productions, not the building) seem average to me. But then I WAS only there once and the rest is hearsay and recordings.
MrHbc3 6 months ago
mi sembra che sia necessario comprendere e perdonare.Tanti grandi artisti lirici hanno steccato ed allora perche' infierire.
lafca88 6 months ago
Alagna is a nice tenor' but his voice is not suited for Aida.
sugarbist 6 months ago
Wuttt???
iLuvTofu20 6 months ago
Que falta de respeto y qué cobardía. porqué no se lo hace una persona en su cara.. y que se ponga a cantar mejor y actuar en un escenario?!!. Se sienten protegidos por la multitud, y se aprovechan de la vulnerabilidad del artista enfrente de un escenario. Como las manadas de animales. En eso se convierten. Les gusta saber que los demás se equivocan para reforzar la poca autoestima y aliviar su frustración por dentro.. pobre gente. Respeto porfavor!!
necrogoddess 7 months ago 2
The set is gorgeous!!!
nostopsnopurgatory 7 months ago
Envidiosos, les gustaría cantar como el señor Lasagna. Capo rulito entrando a cantar medio en pelotas sin anestesia.
multibacj 7 months ago
Good thing he left! The stupid public at La Scala they always behave like kindergartners! They deseve his leaving and I hope he never goes back. He doens't need that bunch of idiots. He is a world-class super star.
Triosfrios 7 months ago
@Triosfrios
La Scala isn't for Alagna, it's is too much for him.
Miauriceful 7 months ago
@Miauriceful That may be true, but the people at La Scala have a reputation of being way too strict and inflexible to their performers. They once booed Pavarotti offstage, allegedly because his tone was slightly darker due to a cold that he had.
Maestro2500 6 months ago
@Maestro2500
Well, I can say only this: In Italy to say that a place is excellent they say "This is the la Scala of the ...". For example, the best restaurant is La Scala of the restaurants.
Who goes to La Scala demands excellence and if he hasn't it....
Miauriceful 6 months ago
@Miauriceful If that is all you can say ... that's good. If you think that it indicates anything but promotion.. that's okay too.
MrHbc3 6 months ago
@Miauriceful The idea that all La Scala performances are excellent is wide of the mark. I have heard very mediocre performances at La Scala. It certainly does not always have top notch artists in the operas it presents. On average I would think the Met in New York has better performances than La Scala.
saagua1953 5 months ago
@Miauriceful Really bad manners are too much for me. And the audiences at La Scala are so full of themselves they excel at bad manners. The folks in Milan are great at promotion however... they've been selling Fiats for years... Now THAT is promotion !!
MrHbc3 6 months ago
@MrHbc3 110% agree. on both counts :P
Captainkirk799 5 months ago
Alagna the cretin got booed for his ugly singing and for using microphones, rightly so.
AfroPoli 7 months ago
Si' ma la "melomane" intervistata alla fine avrebbe potuto esprimersi con un italiano un po' più corretto,no?
incasmaya 8 months ago
The problem is, who today can sing Ramades as well as Pavarotti, Domingo, Corelli, or del Monaco did? We don't have those great tenors anymore. We must accept the artists we have if we are to stage new productions of great operas like "Aida".
jmuslvr 8 months ago
well, yeah, not for such a small voiced tenor, and definitively that last high note was kinda yucky...
lateralex90 8 months ago
this is a bullshit video with A FAKE EDIT. after his final note, he simply disappears off the stage. WATCH THE EDIT. This is bullshit. IT'S FAKE. WHERE DID HE GO? One moment he's on the stage and then they show an shot of the conductor, WHILE HE'S SINGING, then they go back to the stage and hes gone. Then you hear the booing. total fake.
WorldCupSeoul 10 months ago
@WorldCupSeoul it actually did happen. he was booed, walked offstage because he got mad and his study had to take over.
yengacnuahs 9 months ago
@WorldCupSeoul You clearly did not pay attention to the video, as it clearly shows him wave his fist and walk off.
tenor220 8 months ago
celeste adieu :)
metropoart 10 months ago
He sounded fine to me...
trschaefer 10 months ago
I honestly don't know who to side with here...Alagna or the boo'ers. I think the boo'ers showed a huge lack of class and respect to someone who IS a working professional doing his job.
That said, Alagna wasn't acting professional AT ALL. I'm not going to pile on him for trying himself at a dramatic role when he's a lyric...a lot of people want to take risks in their careers, and Radames was a risk that didn't pay off for Alagna. And Alagna is a drama king which doesn't help.
LittleMissMafdet 10 months ago
@LittleMissMafdet I don't agree! Performers should be rewarded according to the quality of their performance. I once saw the Girl of the Golden West. The orchestra was superb; the chorus was excellent; the leads were good and the sopranto who played the main part was terrible. The audience cheered the orchestra; applauded the chorus enthusiastically, applauded the leads and booed the star. And they were spot on.
mc0558 10 months ago
@LittleMissMafdet that's italy. they have done this thing from the time of Fallinelli, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini. even the Great composer Bellini was booed after his first premier of Norma..i think the world must accept it.
icylakepaxphile 8 months ago
ma quella trrrrrr"melomane in platea" che da del bambino capriccioso ad alagna (e guardandola direi, da che pulpito) lo sa cosa si prova ad essere "boo"-ati ad una prima alla scala? non penso...come quei bifolchi di teatro che fischiano e urlano come dementi...ma smettetela, salite su un palco, oppure fate silenzio! certe volte sembra di essere allo zoo, gente che litiga da una parte all'altra del teatro...che tristezza...lasciate lavorare la gente!
Kaiser88Franz 10 months ago
bambino? lol
edstercw 11 months ago
I ain't saying he's bad, I'm saying he's bad HERE
manwalrus 11 months ago
SHAME AT THE MET AFTER LA BOHÉME IN 1982.
FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE and MASSIVE OVATION! B U T !
WHAT RENATA SCOTTO GOT and WHY?
anitaeducation 11 months ago
@anitaeducation hi, can you plesae tell me what happened to renata scotto??
MrJohnnyNoname 10 months ago
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LA SCALA? PER CARITÁ !!!
EVEN MOBILE TELEPHONE RINGS DURING THE PERFORMANCE!
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE!
MANY NOUVEAU RICH MAFFIOSO's UNEDUCATED SON.
anitaeducation 11 months ago
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? Why people are EXTREMELY primitive and doing this at the OPERA HOUSE what is almost a temple especially at LA SCALA ? Unfortunately so many envious colleague do this more than 100 years ago. PLEASE, WATCH THE VIDEO WHAT RENATA SCOTTO GOT AT THE END OF LA BOHÉME IN THE MET 1982. DISGUSTING COLLEAGUES SENT IT TO MAKE HER SICK!!!!
anitaeducation 11 months ago
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anitaeducation 11 months ago
PLEASE, WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE WHAT RENATA SCOTTO GOT AFTER LA BOHÉME IN THE MET, 1982. IT WAS MORE THAN DISGUSTING!!!
anitaeducation 11 months ago
@anitaeducation
hi, i cant find the video, can you please tell me what heppened??
MrJohnnyNoname 10 months ago
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LA SCALA? PER CARITÁ!!!
EVEN MOBILE TELEPHONE RINGS DURING THE PERFORMANCE!
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE!
MANY NOUVEAU RICH MAFFIOSO's UNEDUCATED SON.
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anitaeducation 11 months ago
I don't blame him - I'd have done the same - but my gesture would have been ruder than a shaken fist!!! If i wanted to be in audience like that, i would go to a football match.. he's a terrific actor and for your information, a fabulous performance in Pagliacci.
Jennysquib 11 months ago
wow! he must have been really bad if La Scala booed at him.
SuperTB4 1 year ago
whats the point of having his double stand there if he doesn't even have his costume?
k545 1 year ago
Booing is rude and disrespectful, but then - so was his singing.
nobodyimportant09 1 year ago 2
Alagna is just a freaking mess. What a drama queen and he can't even sing in tune.
KStrick92 1 year ago
And is singing Canio. What is next? Otello??
Heroictenor55 1 year ago
Tal vez sea la reacción de un niño caprichoso, pero al público no le da ningún derecho a comportarse como hooligans frente a la obra de Verdi y menos en el Teatro más famoso del mundo. Si no les gustó mejor hubiesen guardado silencio.
RobertoML72 1 year ago 10
@RobertoML72 De acuerdo 100%!
puttytat007 1 year ago
@RobertoML72 Exactamente... pero esa gente no tienen educación. En otros teatros del mundo, cuando a la gente no le gusta algo, simplemente o no aplauden mucho o no aplauden. Tiene que ser terrible para un cantante, que le hagan algo asi. Lo que no me puedo explicar es, porque lo critican a él y nadie habla de como se comportaron esos trogloditas. Alagna no es mi preferido pero no creo que haya cantado mal como dicen.
ezayi 1 year ago
@RobertoML72 no estoy de acuerdo,si Verdi viviera seria el primero en aventar tomates al cantante, justamente por ser la meca de la opera mundial no pueden permitirse que ese mono salga a cantar en ese calamitoso estado vocal, los tickets no valen 2 centavos , mucho de ese publico viaja de todas partes del mundo para estar en una noche Alla Scala..no se pueden permitir el lujo de que cualquier payaso cante en su escenario..
aircat29 4 months ago
Responder a este vídeo... grande el sustituto, saliò a hacer el toro con una dignidad increible!
aircat29 4 months ago
OMG OMG DRAMA AT THE OPERA HOUSE!!!
passingbynight 1 year ago
He deserved it.
meistersinger92 1 year ago
This was not a good performance for Alagna, the role is simply out of his league. Are there any great Verdi tenors left?
SFT24 1 year ago
@SFT24 ...José Cura ...*snicker*...
Sorry, the last one I heard of was called Giuseppe Giacomini and I'm still waiting for someone who can stand next to him without being totally shamed.
I'm afraid it will be a long wait ...*sigh*... :p
PickBit 1 year ago
It's actually half tone above the original note...very funny though.
Doooku 1 year ago
Non mi piace Alagna, e qui si è dimostrato un bambino.
Lirico96 1 year ago
December 10, 2006. Antonello Palombi, who was pushed on stage in street clothes, was the scheduled Radames for later in the run and was, I believe, there as a cover that night (not an understudy). I've seen Palombi three times in Seattle (Pagliacci, Aida, Trovatore). No great actor, he is a solid, old-fashioned, stand-and-deliver Italian tenor. Seattle loves him!
pckermit 1 year ago
Wow. What year was this?
REBECCAtheSOPRANO 1 year ago
He should not have gone on...Even Callas waited for the end of the act...His actions were childish. He should stick to lyric roles anyway if anyone cares.
profgv 1 year ago
What happened?
issueagent 1 year ago 9
@issueagent
people didnt like it because this role is usually sung byy tenor with a more powerfull voice
roberto alagna is what some would call a "lyric tenor", this role is sung by "spinto or dramatic tenors" such as franco corelli placido domingo, etc.
what matters is people like this role sung with a lot of power and volume, not all tenors have that, they have other skills
i hope it helps :)
MrJohnnyNoname 10 months ago
@MrJohnnyNoname I see :o this explains ! Thanks a lot!
issueagent 10 months ago
@MrJohnnyNoname If there was any power missing, it must have been very slight. Alagna has a powerful voice. Perhaps not at the register of this aria.
In any case, La Scala's public is know to brook no nonsense. The demand the highest standards, and one must respect them for that.
It's a shame because I think Alagna has very nice voice. He's not a Pavarotti, but he is no worse than that nasally bloke from Spain or his miniture sidekick.
mc0558 10 months ago
@mc0558
i dont know who you are saying this to or for whom, what you said is exactly what i said, in THIS ARIA, PEROPLE DINDT LIKE IT BECAUSE USUALLY IT IS SUNG WITH MORE POWER, you made it into this judgemental thing, i did not judge alagna or the public of LA Scala, soo, waht are you saying??? i just gave an explanation of what happened to someone who asked, and what you wrote only back what i said, so i think you just wanted to say something, i hope you feel good
MrJohnnyNoname 10 months ago
@mc0558
IN WHAT IS THAT DIFERENT FROM WHAT I SAID????
PLEASE TELL ME
i agree 100% and it is just what i said, i did not judge anyone roberto or the public, i just explained as plain as caould be, can you help me with something: whos that nasal bloke from spain? kraus? and whose the miniature saidekik? thanks!!
MrJohnnyNoname 10 months ago
@issueagent Alagna told that the booed at him was planned before (people told he wrong a lot that night). For this reason he go out. You can see that he try to go out by right , but he saw that all was close he go out from left side :) . The opera was finished by his substitute Antonello Palombo. The woman at the end say something as "He react as like a child that had been stolen a toy". You know in Italy at a lot of people that dont understan nothing of music wanna do a sort of judge.
elicandondo 4 months ago
@elicandondo People was ridiculous!!! Celeste Aida is in the beginning of the opera, so Alagna didn't really the time to wrong. So this is a b*****t. The boooos was planned. And Alagna did well going away. I'm Italian, and I fell ashamed to be con national of those f****g idiots. But you can't speak about italians that don't understand nothing of music, because idiots like those there are in every country.
TheEngraver 3 months ago
@elicandondo Actually what she said was "...his reaction was like a bratty child whose game they spoiled..."
assindiastignani 1 month ago
I saw the future performances of this after Roberto had returned and he was well received and sang beautifully. Typical La Scala audience really-like to think they know better than those on stage. Viva Roberto-you did the right thing at the time.
MrsPisaroni 1 year ago
@MrsPisaroni : I'm sorry but this was a horrible performance.
Amusement73 1 year ago
It's fair enough. 'Either you go or I go'. La Scala is left with booers and an understudy dressed in black when they could have had a performance from one of the top 3 Verdi tenors currently singing.
Schildwache97 1 year ago
Kudos to the stage hand for just whipping out on stage in jeans and a T-shirt.
hawadjie 1 year ago
I love the soprano's face when the new guy strolls out in jeans.
LibbySingsMezzo 1 year ago
His singing is fine.
The audience seemed to start booing when the other performer emerged from behind....a women. I didn't listen beyond that so far .... just wondering why they booed if he sang perfectly fine. Maybe the papers are filled with scandal? Is it because of his relationship with soprano Gheorghiu?? Who knows.
skbnwinters 1 year ago
@skbnwinters : No, it is because his performance was horrible.
Amusement73 1 year ago
If he thinks these fans are tough, he better not play in Philadelphia, they boo safe landings and Santa Clause
apache1839yahoo 1 year ago
@apache1839yahoo lmfaoooo safe landingg ur a funny dude with that comment.
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orejarota 1 year ago
My God It is just a stupid clack sitting in that audience. No music-lovers who have no clue about the efforts you do when you are singing a role like this!
The same people who booed him would have applaud him if Verdi himself would have said that he loves his interpretation.
I agree with Alagna. How can you sing when you allready in your first aria get this atmosphere. You give yourself 100% when you sing. THis is really not honest!
But it is all in the game overthere in Milano
rtaveen 1 year ago 2
@rtaveen : The real question for Alagna here was: how can you sing the whole opera, when your performance is so horrible in the first aria already? I've studied music for 16 years and I'm a music lover and know it very well. I don't judge opera singer based on their marketing but based on their capacities. He can NOT sing in this opera, it's not in his possibilities. He can sing in light roles but not Verdi.
Amusement73 1 year ago
voce fuori repertorio .
bodiloto 1 year ago
it's a hard job and the Scala public is probably the pickiest in the world. If they don't get excellence each time...they will attack. He did a good job for most opera houses and I could only dream to sing like that but it's not enough to satisfy the "loggionisti". I feel bad for him although he behaved like a total prick...it's ironic that he was playing the role of a great courageous warrior...
equitemcroce 1 year ago 2
Rude and stupid snobbish audience!
ALBIBISBIS 1 year ago 3
So unprofessional!
667mumble 1 year ago
Was he singing for free? I don't think so, he was getting a big check to sing. If you go to a restaurant and by chance the chef had a bad day and made what you ordered salty, would you eat it any way or would you demand what you paid for?
NEBESHIKU 1 year ago
no big deal, plenty of other opera houses in the world.
uptilthesky 1 year ago 6
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More like no big deal, plenty of other tenors in the world.
VinylToVideo 1 year ago
@uptilthesky Yes, he can do to the Met, a junk yard for cretins.
AfroPoli 1 year ago
@uptilthesky more like plenty other tenors on hand to do it better and with class.
TrueVideo 5 months ago
Vendimi: Thanks for your response. I DO feel that Alagna was ill advised to sing Rhadames, especially at La Scala. He had/has no business singing such a heavy role. I too feel that he should do more lyrical repertoire. You are also right about the perception of the La Scala audience. I know that you Italians are very enthusiastic about your opera. You guys are much less inhibited than we are in America, although we've had lots of booing lately at the Met, and it was deserved.
Zva26 1 year ago
@ Zva26 Gentile signore/a,Alagna e' abbastnza grande,NO?Non e' stato mal consigliato,e lui CHE DEVE SAPERE,cosa e adatto alla sua vocalita' oppur no.
isabella1954able 1 year ago
Vendimi: America is the country of Maria Callas, Marilyn Horne, Renee Fleming, Shirley Verrett, Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, Beverly Sills, etc. The American opera public knows what a great voice sounds like. The fact that opera originated in Italy does NOT give ANY public the right to behave like ignorant boors. La Scala and Parma may be well and good, but great singers can't be blamed for not wanting to sing there. There is no excuse for such bloodsport -- it diminishes opera as art.
Zva26 1 year ago 4
@Zva26
Look that boohing doesn't mean to ALWAYS booh: in Alagna's case, who I personally adore when singing french light repertoire, was a booh to the performance, not to the artist. Such an opera star should know his limits in the choice of a carachter or another: mr. Alagna should have been aware that singing Radames that way in La Scala means to be trown tomatoes. so they were kind. And listen: to criticize is not a bloodsport. But I understand that it presumes the people to think...
Vendimi3 1 year ago
I don't blame him. The "peanut gallery" in the Italian opera houses are rude, classless, uneducated, and downright boorish. Alagna had no business singing this very heavy role, but he certainly didn't deserve such an insult. Among those booed in the past: Callas, Caballe, Fleming, Verrett, Pavarotti, and probably still others. La Scala needs to put security people in their gallery, and have them toss out the rabble-rousers. This would not happen in an American opera house.
Zva26 1 year ago 3
@Zva26
1)Actually opera was born (in Italy) as a popular - not elitary - entertainment and the people, mostly poor, brought food and drink at the performance, and boohing was the less.
2)It won't happen in America's opera houses since the lack of culture in America is so thick that they believe Bocelli and Brightman to be great opera singers.
3) Before criticising cultures you can't live up to, develop some self consciousness.
Vendimi3 1 year ago
@Vendimi3 Unfair to Americans!! Most people I know think Bocelli and Brighton
are pop lightweights, and think it is disgusting that they make studio recordings
of great opera arie. Even with all the technology behind them, they suck.
tuadolcefanciulla 1 year ago 2
@tuadolcefanciulla God I thought I was the only one. Bocelli especially stinks. I have no idea why people think he has a great operatic voice...oh wait, I know...he sings great for a blind guy! Sheesh!
blkchk 1 year ago
@blkchk ABSOLUTELY INSIGHTFUL!!! YEAH!
tuadolcefanciulla 1 year ago
@blkchk : Actually Bocelli never said he's an opera singer. He's been always honest about his singing.
Amusement73 1 year ago
@Vendimi3 Not all Americans think Bocelli and Brightman are great opera singers! Certainly this American doesn't. The only ones who do are probably the same people, who when you ask them have they ever been to the opera, say "Oh yes, I've seen Phantom of the Opera"! I can't tell you how many times I've heard that!
blkchk 1 year ago
@blkchk
And I'm glad of iTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT :-)
Vendimi3 1 year ago
@blkchk :hahahhaahha nice one:)
Amusement73 1 year ago
@Zva26 -Vendimi3: Another comment. The Metropolitan Opera did a "Sonnambula" last year with Florez and Dessay that was beautifully sung, but the production was the ugliest, plainest, and most disgusting you could ever imagine for this opera. The audience did a LOT of booing. These stage directors are ruining opera far more than any singer could. Could you imagine Callas or Tebaldi singing in such trashy productions?
Zva26 1 year ago
@Zva26 Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. The production was innovative. A gain one wonders if the armchair booers could stand the heat and do better-I seriously doubt it. I have the DVD of the performance and love it. There are so many snobs who are VERY LUCKY to be able to afford opera and have the chance to see it live=I only wish they would let me have their tickets-there is always someone expecting the worst from a production and just waiting to sharpen their claws.
MrsPisaroni 1 year ago
Por favor Alagna no cantes mas en tu carrera arias verdianas de Aida mucho menos de Otelo y Don Carlos son extremadamente dramaticas y tu voz es mas para el tipo lírico en operas como La Traviata, Rigoletto y Il Trovatore donde te luces mejor. Igual hizo el celebre Pavarotti pero se dio cuenta a tiempo del error de incluir ese repertorio a tiempo.
Vanchy58 1 year ago 2
Alagna was booed because the ending of this Celeste Aida is a real shame, his vibrato is really a tremolo, and there is no real morendo on the last B-flat, as Verdi himself specifically wrote, just an applause-luring hiccup. Although it is true that only Corelli and (less effectively) Pavarotti have succesfully accomplished that, it is also true that La Scala's loggionisti (the "peanut gallerists") are renowned for being a bunch of uncompromising, supercilious and sometimes even rude melomaniacs
amdelogu 1 year ago
He is so famous and the audience booed him... What was his mistake?
VladaSunlight 1 year ago 2
@VladaSunlight Someone said he was sick but decided to try singing anyway. It sounded fine to me. The last note is the most difficult part and sounded great!
Doromir 1 year ago
WHY DID THE TWATS BOO HIM !!!!!!! HE HAS AN EXTRAORDINARY VOICE.
Perche quegli idioti l'hanno booed Alangna?????
gharusa 1 year ago 2
@gharusa
Dude it's serious if you don't understand why. He just sang terribly, the voice trembling, squealing, always out of line.
Vendimi3 1 year ago
i don't see why he was booed??
followthehatecrewild 1 year ago
The production should have been booed. If Eurotrash exists, this is it. Boo Alagna, boo Zeffirelli.
AfroPoli 1 year ago
My understanding is that few younger Italians are drawn by opera. It's very existence hangs by a thread. This kind of self-indulgence will not help matters.
poissonnoir 1 year ago
io non trovo che sia incivile.. in teatro è sempre stato così,se piace : applausi. se non piace : fischi... la gente paga,è giusto che mostri il suo apprezzamento,o in questo caso il NON apprezzamento..
Marla1985 1 year ago
Okay, it was crappy singing, but not that crappy!
Cantormatis 1 year ago
Heehee! He couldn't get out on stage right, so he had to walk across the stage again to get to the other side.
flutebat 1 year ago
I just remembert when they asked maria Callas when will she return to La scala and she said "Quando il publico milanese serra piu educato"!! haa!! true!!!
BelCantoFan2 1 year ago 3
pas la voix pour ce role
crobemi04 1 year ago
who's the woman talking at the end? i'm in love!
key70us 1 year ago
@key70us umm... you need to get out more...
ponybcurtis 1 year ago
@ponybcurtis , oh come on, ponyb, you understand nothing! it's the pretty librarian syndrom! The pretty intelectual type! Cant you see that the moment she takes off her glasses, her legs become extremely long? AND on top of all, since guys like you didnt realize her beauty before, she is a bit shy and relatively untouched. What could be better?
scissoringgirls 1 year ago
@scissoringgirls ...a woman who is actually attractive. I love the librarian-type. This woman does not qualify. Then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
ponybcurtis 1 year ago
this behavour is awful...no class in the audience,and it is to belive that only classy people see opera...right!!!!
BelCantoFan2 1 year ago
@BelCantoFan2 welcome to fucking italy.
thordrianee 1 year ago
He probably didn't pay off the claque.
AindriasHiort 1 year ago 2
HAHA! this is hilarious! I'd like to have this kind of experience one day!
The replaced Radames is awesome!
chohashi 1 year ago
HAHA! this is hilarious! I'd like to have this kind of experience one day!
The replaced Radames is awesome!
chohashi 1 year ago
Alagna deserves a good spanking!
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
This part is too big for his voice -- at least on this occasion. It's passable. If you listen to Domingo or Corelli, their voices grab you immediately with their power and intensity. Here, I was hoping that Alagna would survive to the end of the aria.
The booing was in poor taste, but quitting during a live scene with other singers on stage is unforgivable.
DCFunBud 1 year ago
la melomane ne capisce di lirica come mia nonna ne capisce di economia, praticamente un caxxo
rinarix1 1 year ago
@rinarix1 ahahahah
AndreaChenier1977 1 year ago
I just read an interview in Opernwelt, where it was said, that the booing was political and directed at the staging of the opera.
Herfinnur 1 year ago 3
@Herfinnur
That doesn't seem to make sense - booing for the stage directors tends to come at curtain's open or during curtain calls, not right after an aria. Further: I see nothing wrong with this staging.
Jaydoggy531 1 year ago
@Jaydoggy531 It doesn't make sense to me either. Not only booing of stage directors happens during curtain calls, this also doesn't look like the type of productin to get booed. This looks like a very nice production, traditional, set exactly in the place written in libretto. Traditional productions never get booed. It's quite clear it's directed at Alagna. He obviously thought so.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago
Italians are expressive.That is the history of the Milan house and Italian opera houses in general I do think opera goers at the Met tend to applaud everybody who opens their mouth-.And if you are a celebrity they don't care if you had an off night or not .I find the Met audience- though knowledgable- too forgiving at most times. Six of one- haf dozen of another.The scene where he is booed and walks off is not after Celeste Aida. He is on other side of the stage.Editing made it seem so.
lpvcrcd 1 year ago
@lpvcrcd Met audience booes bad productions. But I can't imagine booing a singer - they are doing their best, and voice is not a piano or a violin it can fail, a singer can have an off night. And no, Met audience doesn't always applaud: I once saw a really bad performance of Norma at the Met and hardly anybody applauded her. But booing - who knows why she agreed to sing the role, and maybe she was sick too. Directors are fair game, though.
jewelmarkess 1 year ago 2
@jewelmarkess I´m totally agree with you! we are humans not robots!
Nadelanu 1 year ago 2
@Nadelanu Yes, and they are paid fortunes like humans, not robots
f1a6b3 1 year ago
hahahaha French idiot.
romanazazel 1 year ago
wow that never seems to work for Sara Palin.
MrDoublehappy 1 year ago 19
@MrDoublehappy Sarah Palin needs to be boooooed out of Planet Earth.
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
@MrDoublehappy
Haha, very funny
MegaBreez 1 year ago
@MrDoublehappy : you made me laugh out loud.
hayretbise 1 year ago
@hayretbise :) #LOL
MrDoublehappy 1 year ago
I think it's strange that opera goers have to treat it like sport, watching a match, cheering and booing... why don't they just listen and not spoil it... and comment and talk afterwards... it's very bad taste, like mobile phones going off in concerts (they aren't allowed! )
KARINADIVA 1 year ago