Roberto Alagna Booed at La Scala

Alagna getting booed at La Scala. He waved his fist and walked off the stage. Replacement tenor Antonello Palombi was pushed into the stage wearing jeans and shirt!!

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• Alagna
• Scala
• Aida
• Booing

[trumansf]

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!

[raigekimaru]

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

[Halfnerds]

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!" :)

[Randidan]

@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...

[assindiastignani]

@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]

@elicandondo Actually what she said was "...his reaction was like a bratty child whose game they spoiled..."

[quintoprocuratore]

@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.

[assindiastignani]

@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.

[quintoprocuratore]

@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...

[assindiastignani]

@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.

[quintoprocuratore]

@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.

[NEBESHIKU]

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...