In the 1990s, Alagna was an upcoming tenore lyrico with great promise. It seems he has followed the some footsteps of Carreras and is in the process of becoming a "has-been" very fast.
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When Big Pava was booed at La Scala he was 59 years old. When Alagna was booed, he was only 43. At 43, he should have been at the top of his game. He already started to decline.. prematurely.
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Back in the day, with lyrical roles Alagna was quite good in my opinion, and I liked him in those. His ego and poor judgement got the best of him, so I feel no sympathy at all for the man.
La Scala audiences are snobby and WAAAYYY too critical - they only like Italians. I seem to recall that they have booed some fabulous singers over the years, and Alagna is no exception. Anyway, I think Alagna is fabulous, so all the better for the rest of us in North America if those ridiculous La Scala attendees don't like him - it just leaves more of his singing for us! I, for one, am very happy that the Met snatched him up!
The Met did not snatch him up. He was standing in at the Met. He was the only decent unemployed tenor available at short notice as Rolando Villazon decided to take time off at short notice. Roberto's career did suffer after this incident. Shame, he is a very good lyrical tenor, Faust comes to mind.
What do you mean by"Unemployed"? Alagna was at MET. for his full engagement of "Madama Butterfly". He and other tenors have to cover Villazon's(11 performances)NO SHOW in short notice, besides their own schedul, means they were taking more risk to sing a difficult role(Romeo). You should give more respect to those singer whose on stage, not an insult! They are not standing-in, they are the real stars who can deliver the goods!!!
I watch Roberto's performance on 15th December. Tell me, what was he meant to be doing on that day otherwise. A couple of days ago, I was back at the Royal Opera watching Anna, Dimtri and Jonas Kaufmann on opening night of La Traviata. I think I know opera enough to say that Roberto was wrong to let the audience who did not boo down by walking out. This is such a thing as professionalism even for the husband of a Prima Donna.
Your comment are all over the places, what this have to do with La Traviata at ROH? I was specifically response your"Unemployed" standing-in remark, which was not true. Check MET. archive yourself. and to answer your specific question again, before Dec.15th he also sang the performance at 12th, and beginning of Dec.he sang at Liceu Barcelona. You seem wanting him out of job badly, sorry to disappoint you.
Quoting MrChowChow and watching this clip, 'the real stars who can deliver the goods' is definitely not Monsieur Alagna. It is obviously Antonello Palombi and Ildiko Komlosi. Roberto left at the start of a DUET! leaving the princess ALONE! Antonello went on stage and amazingly NOT A SINGLE NOTE WAS MISSED. The real stars are these two singers. Bravo! Bravo!
By most account, Roberto's Celeste Aida was not great. The loggionisti audience have booed many singers before. One of them, Renata Scotto, who was hackled as well. In the end, she received a standing ovation, including Maria Callas who was watching her. Roberto was the first singer to abandon his colleagues and fans while the music is still playing. He thinks he is greater god and cannot accept even a single criticism, e.g. his rendition of the aria was pop-ish.
Please ask any tenor whether Pinkerton is a role a world class singer would long for. Rolando Villazon is unwell, and let his fans know rightaway, allowing opera houses a 2 months to plan (and me to return my tickets for a refund). Rolando has respect for opera lovers & would not go on stage when he is not at his best. Roberto who was fit and well, yet abandoned those who did not boo. May be he knew he was in the wrong role and would not get a standing ovation from even his ardent fans.
Roberto Alagna's career was in such a balance that his wife had to leave her rehearsals, travelled to NYC to lend her superstar fame to salvage her husband's career. She was fired by Lyric Opera Chicago for missing 60% of her rehearsals, including ALL orchestral ones. Guess what, Roberto was unapologic! Coincidentally, Angela was fired from a production by Renata Scotto. She played Mimi before but there were new directions in that production.
WOW! What fury, now I understand, this is not about Alagna, this is about Villazon. you turn your frustration to the nearest easy target. It's one thing you don't like a singer, is another thing to bitterly attack a person in both professional and personal way. It's childish and unhealth.
Listen to Alagna's B flat in Celeste Aida and compare that to Domingo and Pavarotti's. You obviously is someone who have not actually been inside a opera house for more than a few times and think opera singers are like Pop stars and can be undisciplined and unprofessional. Try going inside opera houses as often as you can instead of going to cinema transmisions, as it happens the two you went to recently has Alagna in it!! Am I right?
Your wishful thinking gone overboard, I won't fail for that cheap trick. I do surprised that you compare Alagna with Domingo and Pavarotti, not Villazon, and the worship opera singer like pop stars remark sounds like your self-partait. Oh! BTW I attanded the live performance at MET. on Sep. 29th, you are the one wacthed it on Dec.15th, as you said yourslf.
I am pleased that at least one of my returned tickets which costed me more than £300 were taken up by you. Otherwise, I would not have got my refund. Thank you for your help. Your surprise that why Domingo and Pavarotti were mentioned did not surprise me as you obviously know little about what happen inside opera houses. Pavarotti was booed at La Scala and Domingo as a conductor at the Met! Both of them stayed with their colleagues unlike Alagna. Also all 3 singers sang Celeste Aida.
There are NO Tickets Refunds, except the performance was canceled, that is most opera house policy, including MET. If you attend live opera you should know.
You have never heard of sponsorship and priority schemes where premium tickets are allocated/reserved long before they go on public sale and released if not required for corporate entertaining, etc.
Elaborate but phony story of your ticket refunds, Shift from Canadian tenor to opening night, how convenient. You have exhaust most words on opera gossip, and most of them are your fantasies. You only talent is turn your narrow-minded hatred to shameful personal attack!
MrChowChow, please get yourself personalised patron ticketing services with special phone numbers in the opera houses you like. Consult your accountant regarding tax domicile. If you are unable to get a refund/exchange, please send unused tickets back to the opera houses. They will be happy to send you tax certificates. Depending on your marginal rate of income tax, you should be able to get a significant tex relief.
My last contribution, avoid being a cabbage when it comes to cpera, be critical. A B flat is a B flat not anything else. Forced notes should not be confused with good technique. Singers should practise their arts seriously and treat their colleagues with respect. Go see Alagna in Faust, have seen him in that role 3 times, his singing was very good in the balcony scene (not same scene as in Romeo, of course).
As you were INSIDE the Met on opening night, you would have seen Angela and witnessed the risks she took trying save her husband. Please have some symphathy for her as her firing was VERY PUBLIC. As for Alagna Vs Villazon, in the year before this incident, I saw both of them INSIDE opera houses 4 times each, so hardly favouring one or the other before Alagna's shameful act. BTW, Palombi got a 9-minute ovation, but I supposed you are only interested in your Pop Idol, Alagna.
Well, I thought you were boosting about being at opening night instead of me and could not tell the difference between the opening nights of Aida and Romeo. So you do know the difference. In which case, accept that Alagna is good in one and not in the other. If you think Ms Gheorghiu putting her career at risk is not a msjor concern, you are not opera follower.
So I saw Alagna later than you! I am sure I saw Alagna LIVE in opera houses more in just the year to dec 06 than you in your life time so far. Why should I be in a hurry to see Alagna! He is not a rising star! His performance in that opera was better with Angela years agao! I returned my tickets so others can buy them. I am only sorry that I returned my tickets for the performance with the Canadian tenor whom I have heard was VERY VERY GOOD. I will go to opera houses to listen to him in future.
Dec 06 is a dark chapter in opera history because of Alagna. In that month, Alagna was booed at La Scala and Domingo at the Met. Domingo STAYED IN THE PIT. Dec 06 was when the video of Aida with Alagna was recorded (before Alagna walked out on 2nd night). A WHOLE YEAR LATER, in Dec 07, MrChowChow went to his local cinema and watch a 12-month old recording of his idol. Try following opera by flying, not taking your car to the parking lot of theaters.
MrChowChow, apart from going to a cinema to watch something 12 months old, FYI the DVD for Alagna's Aida performance was available TO BUY here in UK, months before you saw it at an US cinema!! The US release date was held back so people who do not keep an opera diary would not notice they are going to theaters to see something out of date. I do believe they will release the DVD in the States next month. In UK, I can get a new sealed copy at 40% RRP, reason for the price drop is obvious.
Dec 06 was when two tenors who respect opera goers ran towards the stage when the princess started singing a duet on her own. Palombi was the perfectly capable B cast lead on his rest night, hence uncostumed. There was a costumed stand-in (unnamed). Palombi despite his Meatloaf-ish physique outran the costumed stand-in!! As the other lead, he was considered better, nevermind his jeans. Not a missed beat & La Scala did not go into cardiac arrest because of some unprofessional singer.
Your ignorance really showed when you failed to spot why I mentioned Pavarotti & Domingo with Alagna but not Villazon. All the first three sang Celeste Aida so you can compare. All three have been booed, Alagna & Domingo at La Scala, Domingo as a conductor (for Anna and Rolando!!! in La Boheme at the Met.) The difference is only Alagna abandoned his job. With amazing effort from the soprano and the understudy, not a note was missed at La Scala.
Correction of error: I meant Alagna and PAVAROTTI WERE BOOED at La Scala, not Domingo. The booing of Domingo were at the Met, so please do not think North American opera goers are less brutal than those in La Scala! Booing however is rare in other European opera houses.
Alagna was the one who was delirious. He gave various contradictory excuses for his action in various interviews and statements. The most amazing one was that he was worried that he might get killed like John Lennon! He needs a geography lesson, La Scala is in Milan, Italy not NYC, U.S. of A. He is certainly not a protected species as far as Milan zoo is concerned.
Boos are brutal and I understand Alanga walking out the stage, crowd in la Scala can be brutal for 2 main reasons, you have to pay almoast unionised spectators to support you in bravo's, even Callas did that, second reason is that Alagna, though he is an excellent lyric tenor it's not his busness to do spinto roles like Radames and in Italy crowd understands it better then one in North America
I'm glad that they got in the end a uncostumed, and inapropriate for the role bigfoot whom they didn't even booo, because somehow a person who had learned the role and was in costume was not good enough for them. So I hope what they got in the end was good enough. Pure Hypocricy!!!
...Espero al menos que "el divillo" no ose enarbolarse de nuevo en el Liceo Barcelonés, por la cuenta que le tiene, ya me veo a Marco Verti haciendo guardia en bambalinas.
...Más que el hecho critico personalmente el modo y las formas, señores/as míos, el público es el público, y guste o no, cada cual tiene su criterio, los abucheos existen desde el mismo instante que existieron los aplausos, no son signos de mala educación, sino de disgusto libremente expresado, el verdadero artista es humilde y consecuente, lo que aquí vemos se llama soberbia altanera.
Comparto el mismo parecer Abacccc, al margen de lo que pudiera reconocer Alagna, si habría podido o no finalizar la obra (cosa altamente dudosa a juzgar por el sobreesfuerzo evidente) su reacción fué desastrosa, por no decir soez, irrespetuosa e imporpia de cualquier artista que se debe a su arte, y al público, que ha pagado por escucharle.
Ha sbagliato due volte: non doveva cantare questo ruolo (che urla dall' inizio alla fine) e non doveva reagire così. Purtroppo i fischi se li è meritati.
Its never justified to treat a singer like this in my opinion. What do you think arnold2001, are we singers such scum we dont deserve normal courtesy? What a shame! Shame on La Scala, shame on the world of opera!!!
Alagna no se da cuenta que su voz no acorde a roles como el de Radamés. Tuvo lo que se merecía. Casi se le sale la garganta por la boca de tanto esfuerzo, y para cualquiera que tenga un oido medianamente desarrollado esto resulta desagradable.
Si usted me disculpa, un profesional, sea cual sea su condición no puede darse el lujo de hacer lo que hizo Alagna. Y si cantó mal tiene que estar dispuesto a recibir críticas
Abacccc: No debería ser tan exigente. ¿Usted es perfecto?... Ojalá y nunca en la vida le toque recibir abucheos parte de gente con mala educación. Por más buena o mala que le parezca una interpretación no debe ponerse a gritar como salvaje en un teatro... Por Dios! es la Scala de Milán, no un parque o mercado. Si usted no le gusta como canta entonces para qué va al teatro, paga por ver y escuchar a alguien que no le agrada??? La gente educada y civilizada no expone su opinión a gritos.
Señor,el pucblico italiano es expresivo al asistir a la opera, para bien o para mal. Lo mismo pasó a la gran Tebaldi,Callas,Caballé, casos documentados. Alagna reconoce que sabía que no iba a poder terminar la opera por problemas con su garganta. No debió haber empezado.Celeste Aida es la primera aria del tenor, por lo que es por problemas previos que cantó mal. Esto es falta de profesionalismo y exceso de divismo de este señor. No es primera vez que lo traiciona su temperamento.
Lamentablemente no es un rol para tenor lírico, sino para spinto o drámatico, a Alagna no le sirve sobreesforzarse de esa manera, corre un gran riesgo creo yo...
You are tone-deaf. He was a tad sharp. This tends to happen when a singer is overly excited or nervous. Why do you bother listening to opera if you are tone deaf? It must be frustrating for you.
Sei un baritono? Bravo, complimenti, é difficile per i sordi di fare la carriera sul palcoscenico.
Io sono un cantante professionale, ho cantato parecchie volte con Palombi in diverse cose, conosco molto meglio di te come canta lui. But I won´t let your ignorance get in the way of your opinion, you muppet.
Non of them have a good voice. that palumbo sucks really bad he also has a lingua di pezza He also looks like a caveman or spazzacamino. M ache cacchio di cantanti che girano nel mondo!!! Fanno vomitare.
La cosa peggiore e' che si fanno chiamare tenori professionisti,che vergogna.
I'd say the worst part of that final note was that it was shaking. Alagna exhibited a horrible wobble on that note, IMHO, though apparently he doesn't usually sing that way, since he performs so many operas. I wonder why nobody mentioned this in their comments? I think this was much worse than being slightly off-pitch.
His last tone is mower that it should be and very ugly! Certainly everyone is allowed mistakes, but not in this theatre and not at a premiere with a historical value like this! Alagna should have known better- Radames isnt one of his best roles and he has never felt certain there, maybe he should have let Kaufmann or Fracarro to Aida! IT is his mistake and the audience has every right to do that!
bull. he pulls this crap all the time. He's been banned from the met. he needs to chill out. yeah he has a great voice but the days of the diva fits are over. Opera houses are not putting up with it any more
Yes, he does have a lovely voice- but it's wrong for Radames!! Anyway, the note was thin and wobbly, and he picked the wrong place to do that. He's lucky that's all they did was boo- sometimes they throw rotten meat and vegetables- eheheh.
Alagna sei uno figglio di cagnia!!! jajaja
VengadorMexicano 2 years ago
Opera needs this type of little scandals!
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In the 1990s, Alagna was an upcoming tenore lyrico with great promise. It seems he has followed the some footsteps of Carreras and is in the process of becoming a "has-been" very fast.
TheInquisitive4Ever 3 years ago
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I cannot agree more. He's another victim of his ego.
TheInquisitive4Ever 3 years ago
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When Big Pava was booed at La Scala he was 59 years old. When Alagna was booed, he was only 43. At 43, he should have been at the top of his game. He already started to decline.. prematurely.
TheInquisitive4Ever 3 years ago
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He deserved it, that arrogant *insert curse here*
He should not be singing Aida anyway, he sounds awful trying to fake a dramatic tenor voice.
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago
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Back in the day, with lyrical roles Alagna was quite good in my opinion, and I liked him in those. His ego and poor judgement got the best of him, so I feel no sympathy at all for the man.
GermanOperaSinger 3 years ago
Una Cacca se ne va' e un'altra ne rientra!!
I Grandi Tenori son scomparsi.
Cantachepassa 4 years ago
ovviamente non possono essere tutti come pavarotti, domingo ecc......
sassolino90210 3 years ago 3
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mistralmaster 4 years ago 5
Perfetto!
mf2101 4 years ago
bambino capriccioso
glassies 4 years ago
La Scala audiences are snobby and WAAAYYY too critical - they only like Italians. I seem to recall that they have booed some fabulous singers over the years, and Alagna is no exception. Anyway, I think Alagna is fabulous, so all the better for the rest of us in North America if those ridiculous La Scala attendees don't like him - it just leaves more of his singing for us! I, for one, am very happy that the Met snatched him up!
Canadian99999 4 years ago
The Met did not snatch him up. He was standing in at the Met. He was the only decent unemployed tenor available at short notice as Rolando Villazon decided to take time off at short notice. Roberto's career did suffer after this incident. Shame, he is a very good lyrical tenor, Faust comes to mind.
battycys 4 years ago
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What do you mean by"Unemployed"? Alagna was at MET. for his full engagement of "Madama Butterfly". He and other tenors have to cover Villazon's(11 performances)NO SHOW in short notice, besides their own schedul, means they were taking more risk to sing a difficult role(Romeo). You should give more respect to those singer whose on stage, not an insult! They are not standing-in, they are the real stars who can deliver the goods!!!
MrChowChow 4 years ago
I watch Roberto's performance on 15th December. Tell me, what was he meant to be doing on that day otherwise. A couple of days ago, I was back at the Royal Opera watching Anna, Dimtri and Jonas Kaufmann on opening night of La Traviata. I think I know opera enough to say that Roberto was wrong to let the audience who did not boo down by walking out. This is such a thing as professionalism even for the husband of a Prima Donna.
battycys 4 years ago
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Your comment are all over the places, what this have to do with La Traviata at ROH? I was specifically response your"Unemployed" standing-in remark, which was not true. Check MET. archive yourself. and to answer your specific question again, before Dec.15th he also sang the performance at 12th, and beginning of Dec.he sang at Liceu Barcelona. You seem wanting him out of job badly, sorry to disappoint you.
MrChowChow 4 years ago
Quoting MrChowChow and watching this clip, 'the real stars who can deliver the goods' is definitely not Monsieur Alagna. It is obviously Antonello Palombi and Ildiko Komlosi. Roberto left at the start of a DUET! leaving the princess ALONE! Antonello went on stage and amazingly NOT A SINGLE NOTE WAS MISSED. The real stars are these two singers. Bravo! Bravo!
battycys 4 years ago 2
By most account, Roberto's Celeste Aida was not great. The loggionisti audience have booed many singers before. One of them, Renata Scotto, who was hackled as well. In the end, she received a standing ovation, including Maria Callas who was watching her. Roberto was the first singer to abandon his colleagues and fans while the music is still playing. He thinks he is greater god and cannot accept even a single criticism, e.g. his rendition of the aria was pop-ish.
battycys 4 years ago
Please ask any tenor whether Pinkerton is a role a world class singer would long for. Rolando Villazon is unwell, and let his fans know rightaway, allowing opera houses a 2 months to plan (and me to return my tickets for a refund). Rolando has respect for opera lovers & would not go on stage when he is not at his best. Roberto who was fit and well, yet abandoned those who did not boo. May be he knew he was in the wrong role and would not get a standing ovation from even his ardent fans.
battycys 4 years ago
Roberto Alagna's career was in such a balance that his wife had to leave her rehearsals, travelled to NYC to lend her superstar fame to salvage her husband's career. She was fired by Lyric Opera Chicago for missing 60% of her rehearsals, including ALL orchestral ones. Guess what, Roberto was unapologic! Coincidentally, Angela was fired from a production by Renata Scotto. She played Mimi before but there were new directions in that production.
battycys 4 years ago
WOW! What fury, now I understand, this is not about Alagna, this is about Villazon. you turn your frustration to the nearest easy target. It's one thing you don't like a singer, is another thing to bitterly attack a person in both professional and personal way. It's childish and unhealth.
MrChowChow 4 years ago
Listen to Alagna's B flat in Celeste Aida and compare that to Domingo and Pavarotti's. You obviously is someone who have not actually been inside a opera house for more than a few times and think opera singers are like Pop stars and can be undisciplined and unprofessional. Try going inside opera houses as often as you can instead of going to cinema transmisions, as it happens the two you went to recently has Alagna in it!! Am I right?
battycys 4 years ago
Your wishful thinking gone overboard, I won't fail for that cheap trick. I do surprised that you compare Alagna with Domingo and Pavarotti, not Villazon, and the worship opera singer like pop stars remark sounds like your self-partait. Oh! BTW I attanded the live performance at MET. on Sep. 29th, you are the one wacthed it on Dec.15th, as you said yourslf.
MrChowChow 4 years ago
I am pleased that at least one of my returned tickets which costed me more than £300 were taken up by you. Otherwise, I would not have got my refund. Thank you for your help. Your surprise that why Domingo and Pavarotti were mentioned did not surprise me as you obviously know little about what happen inside opera houses. Pavarotti was booed at La Scala and Domingo as a conductor at the Met! Both of them stayed with their colleagues unlike Alagna. Also all 3 singers sang Celeste Aida.
battycys 4 years ago
There are NO Tickets Refunds, except the performance was canceled, that is most opera house policy, including MET. If you attend live opera you should know.
MrChowChow 4 years ago
You have never heard of sponsorship and priority schemes where premium tickets are allocated/reserved long before they go on public sale and released if not required for corporate entertaining, etc.
battycys 4 years ago 6
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Elaborate but phony story of your ticket refunds, Shift from Canadian tenor to opening night, how convenient. You have exhaust most words on opera gossip, and most of them are your fantasies. You only talent is turn your narrow-minded hatred to shameful personal attack!
MrChowChow 4 years ago
MrChowChow, please get yourself personalised patron ticketing services with special phone numbers in the opera houses you like. Consult your accountant regarding tax domicile. If you are unable to get a refund/exchange, please send unused tickets back to the opera houses. They will be happy to send you tax certificates. Depending on your marginal rate of income tax, you should be able to get a significant tex relief.
battycys 4 years ago 4
typo- I meant *** TAX *** RELIEF!
battycys 4 years ago
My last contribution, avoid being a cabbage when it comes to cpera, be critical. A B flat is a B flat not anything else. Forced notes should not be confused with good technique. Singers should practise their arts seriously and treat their colleagues with respect. Go see Alagna in Faust, have seen him in that role 3 times, his singing was very good in the balcony scene (not same scene as in Romeo, of course).
battycys 4 years ago 4
As you were INSIDE the Met on opening night, you would have seen Angela and witnessed the risks she took trying save her husband. Please have some symphathy for her as her firing was VERY PUBLIC. As for Alagna Vs Villazon, in the year before this incident, I saw both of them INSIDE opera houses 4 times each, so hardly favouring one or the other before Alagna's shameful act. BTW, Palombi got a 9-minute ovation, but I supposed you are only interested in your Pop Idol, Alagna.
battycys 4 years ago
It was not the opening night, and I wander what Gheorghiu ever do to you?
MrChowChow 4 years ago
Well, I thought you were boosting about being at opening night instead of me and could not tell the difference between the opening nights of Aida and Romeo. So you do know the difference. In which case, accept that Alagna is good in one and not in the other. If you think Ms Gheorghiu putting her career at risk is not a msjor concern, you are not opera follower.
battycys 4 years ago
So I saw Alagna later than you! I am sure I saw Alagna LIVE in opera houses more in just the year to dec 06 than you in your life time so far. Why should I be in a hurry to see Alagna! He is not a rising star! His performance in that opera was better with Angela years agao! I returned my tickets so others can buy them. I am only sorry that I returned my tickets for the performance with the Canadian tenor whom I have heard was VERY VERY GOOD. I will go to opera houses to listen to him in future.
battycys 4 years ago
Wtat you mean by Dec.06?
MrChowChow 4 years ago
Dec 06 is a dark chapter in opera history because of Alagna. In that month, Alagna was booed at La Scala and Domingo at the Met. Domingo STAYED IN THE PIT. Dec 06 was when the video of Aida with Alagna was recorded (before Alagna walked out on 2nd night). A WHOLE YEAR LATER, in Dec 07, MrChowChow went to his local cinema and watch a 12-month old recording of his idol. Try following opera by flying, not taking your car to the parking lot of theaters.
battycys 4 years ago
MrChowChow, apart from going to a cinema to watch something 12 months old, FYI the DVD for Alagna's Aida performance was available TO BUY here in UK, months before you saw it at an US cinema!! The US release date was held back so people who do not keep an opera diary would not notice they are going to theaters to see something out of date. I do believe they will release the DVD in the States next month. In UK, I can get a new sealed copy at 40% RRP, reason for the price drop is obvious.
battycys 4 years ago 4
Dec 06 was when two tenors who respect opera goers ran towards the stage when the princess started singing a duet on her own. Palombi was the perfectly capable B cast lead on his rest night, hence uncostumed. There was a costumed stand-in (unnamed). Palombi despite his Meatloaf-ish physique outran the costumed stand-in!! As the other lead, he was considered better, nevermind his jeans. Not a missed beat & La Scala did not go into cardiac arrest because of some unprofessional singer.
battycys 4 years ago 4
Your ignorance really showed when you failed to spot why I mentioned Pavarotti & Domingo with Alagna but not Villazon. All the first three sang Celeste Aida so you can compare. All three have been booed, Alagna & Domingo at La Scala, Domingo as a conductor (for Anna and Rolando!!! in La Boheme at the Met.) The difference is only Alagna abandoned his job. With amazing effort from the soprano and the understudy, not a note was missed at La Scala.
battycys 4 years ago
Correction of error: I meant Alagna and PAVAROTTI WERE BOOED at La Scala, not Domingo. The booing of Domingo were at the Met, so please do not think North American opera goers are less brutal than those in La Scala! Booing however is rare in other European opera houses.
battycys 4 years ago
CORRECTION- the recent booing of Domingo was at the MET, NOT La Scala. I type Domingo instead of Pavarotti by mistake. APOLOGIES to the Maestro!
battycys 4 years ago
Pretty expressive group of boo vicitim! and you gone delirious!
MrChowChow 4 years ago
Alagna was the one who was delirious. He gave various contradictory excuses for his action in various interviews and statements. The most amazing one was that he was worried that he might get killed like John Lennon! He needs a geography lesson, La Scala is in Milan, Italy not NYC, U.S. of A. He is certainly not a protected species as far as Milan zoo is concerned.
battycys 4 years ago 4
Boos are brutal and I understand Alanga walking out the stage, crowd in la Scala can be brutal for 2 main reasons, you have to pay almoast unionised spectators to support you in bravo's, even Callas did that, second reason is that Alagna, though he is an excellent lyric tenor it's not his busness to do spinto roles like Radames and in Italy crowd understands it better then one in North America
Cesaare 4 years ago 3
I'm glad that they got in the end a uncostumed, and inapropriate for the role bigfoot whom they didn't even booo, because somehow a person who had learned the role and was in costume was not good enough for them. So I hope what they got in the end was good enough. Pure Hypocricy!!!
barmanjoe 4 years ago
...Espero al menos que "el divillo" no ose enarbolarse de nuevo en el Liceo Barcelonés, por la cuenta que le tiene, ya me veo a Marco Verti haciendo guardia en bambalinas.
LDA3 4 years ago
...Más que el hecho critico personalmente el modo y las formas, señores/as míos, el público es el público, y guste o no, cada cual tiene su criterio, los abucheos existen desde el mismo instante que existieron los aplausos, no son signos de mala educación, sino de disgusto libremente expresado, el verdadero artista es humilde y consecuente, lo que aquí vemos se llama soberbia altanera.
LDA3 4 years ago
Comparto el mismo parecer Abacccc, al margen de lo que pudiera reconocer Alagna, si habría podido o no finalizar la obra (cosa altamente dudosa a juzgar por el sobreesfuerzo evidente) su reacción fué desastrosa, por no decir soez, irrespetuosa e imporpia de cualquier artista que se debe a su arte, y al público, que ha pagado por escucharle.
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LDA3 4 years ago
Ha sbagliato due volte: non doveva cantare questo ruolo (che urla dall' inizio alla fine) e non doveva reagire così. Purtroppo i fischi se li è meritati.
fratenore 4 years ago
Its never justified to treat a singer like this in my opinion. What do you think arnold2001, are we singers such scum we dont deserve normal courtesy? What a shame! Shame on La Scala, shame on the world of opera!!!
SVENSKSOPRAN 4 years ago 3
Alagna no se da cuenta que su voz no acorde a roles como el de Radamés. Tuvo lo que se merecía. Casi se le sale la garganta por la boca de tanto esfuerzo, y para cualquiera que tenga un oido medianamente desarrollado esto resulta desagradable.
abacccc 4 years ago
Se nota que la que habla al final "un bambino capriccioso..." nunca se ha parado en un escenario ni por casualidad...
golfroylan 4 years ago
Si usted me disculpa, un profesional, sea cual sea su condición no puede darse el lujo de hacer lo que hizo Alagna. Y si cantó mal tiene que estar dispuesto a recibir críticas
abacccc 4 years ago
Abacccc: No debería ser tan exigente. ¿Usted es perfecto?... Ojalá y nunca en la vida le toque recibir abucheos parte de gente con mala educación. Por más buena o mala que le parezca una interpretación no debe ponerse a gritar como salvaje en un teatro... Por Dios! es la Scala de Milán, no un parque o mercado. Si usted no le gusta como canta entonces para qué va al teatro, paga por ver y escuchar a alguien que no le agrada??? La gente educada y civilizada no expone su opinión a gritos.
golfroylan 4 years ago
Señor,el pucblico italiano es expresivo al asistir a la opera, para bien o para mal. Lo mismo pasó a la gran Tebaldi,Callas,Caballé, casos documentados. Alagna reconoce que sabía que no iba a poder terminar la opera por problemas con su garganta. No debió haber empezado.Celeste Aida es la primera aria del tenor, por lo que es por problemas previos que cantó mal. Esto es falta de profesionalismo y exceso de divismo de este señor. No es primera vez que lo traiciona su temperamento.
abacccc 4 years ago
Lamentablemente no es un rol para tenor lírico, sino para spinto o drámatico, a Alagna no le sirve sobreesforzarse de esa manera, corre un gran riesgo creo yo...
tenorspinto 4 years ago
I have to hear the whole aria to be sure weather it was justified to treat Alagna this way.
Does anyone know where the full version can be heard/seen?
I'm a bit surprised to hear Alagna sing Radames anyway. Why doesn't he sing those beautiful lyrico roles?
but if you want to see a real bad performance watch "dragana jugovic del monako ". the audience should have killed her, but they did not, so strange.
arnold2001nl 4 years ago
To be fair, he is certainly a semi-tone flat. Well booed.
RiderTW22 4 years ago
You are tone-deaf. He was a tad sharp. This tends to happen when a singer is overly excited or nervous. Why do you bother listening to opera if you are tone deaf? It must be frustrating for you.
zither74 4 years ago
Sei un baritono? Bravo, complimenti, é difficile per i sordi di fare la carriera sul palcoscenico.
Io sono un cantante professionale, ho cantato parecchie volte con Palombi in diverse cose, conosco molto meglio di te come canta lui. But I won´t let your ignorance get in the way of your opinion, you muppet.
yourehavingalarf 4 years ago
Non of them have a good voice. that palumbo sucks really bad he also has a lingua di pezza He also looks like a caveman or spazzacamino. M ache cacchio di cantanti che girano nel mondo!!! Fanno vomitare.
La cosa peggiore e' che si fanno chiamare tenori professionisti,che vergogna.
Cantachepassa 4 years ago
i dont understand he sounded good
vlp92 4 years ago
...Alla Scala si meritano i mediocri come Palombi....
You ignorant idiot. Palombi is one of the best tenors out there. If you knew anything about opera, you´d know that too - cretin
yourehavingalarf 4 years ago
ALAGNA E' UNA MERDA!
segu82 4 years ago
THE BOO WAS ONLY POLITIC
frenchyfrench 4 years ago
HIS RADAMED IS GREAT.
frenchyfrench 4 years ago
ALAGNA IS A GOD
frenchyfrench 4 years ago
I'd say the worst part of that final note was that it was shaking. Alagna exhibited a horrible wobble on that note, IMHO, though apparently he doesn't usually sing that way, since he performs so many operas. I wonder why nobody mentioned this in their comments? I think this was much worse than being slightly off-pitch.
persianpurrs 4 years ago
It's very cruel to treat an artist like this.
Alagna is a fine, tenore-lyrico, why is he doing Radames? This role requires at leat full-lyric, lirico-spinto or even dramatico.
francotenelli 4 years ago
His last tone is mower that it should be and very ugly! Certainly everyone is allowed mistakes, but not in this theatre and not at a premiere with a historical value like this! Alagna should have known better- Radames isnt one of his best roles and he has never felt certain there, maybe he should have let Kaufmann or Fracarro to Aida! IT is his mistake and the audience has every right to do that!
boris1281 4 years ago
bull. he pulls this crap all the time. He's been banned from the met. he needs to chill out. yeah he has a great voice but the days of the diva fits are over. Opera houses are not putting up with it any more
chemeche 4 years ago
Actually he wasn't banned from the Met. He is singing in Madama Butterfly and Romeo et Juiliette at the Met this season.
emily3013 4 years ago
Yes, he does have a lovely voice- but it's wrong for Radames!! Anyway, the note was thin and wobbly, and he picked the wrong place to do that. He's lucky that's all they did was boo- sometimes they throw rotten meat and vegetables- eheheh.
Zerlin735 4 years ago 2