Tenor walks off stage at La Scala
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Tenor walks off stage at La Scala
Tenor Roberto Alagna marched off the stage at La Scala when the audience
booed him during the second performance of Franco Zeffirelli's "Aida." He
was replaced seconds later by his understudy, who rushed on wearing jeans.
"I do not deserve this kind of reception," Alagna told La Repubblica
newspaper after his early exit from Saturday night's performance.
Thursday night's opening of Zeffirelli's "Aida" was a much-anticipated
event, with Italian Premier Romano Prodi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
among the many prominent figures in audience.
That audience applauded for more than 15 minutes after the final curtain
fell, standing to cheer Zeffirelli, conductor Riccardo Chailly and a cast
led by the Lithuanian mezzo-soprano Violeta Urmana in the title role and
Alagna as Radames.
But the second performance did not go quite as smoothly.
The audience erupted in boos and whistles when Alagna came on stage and
began singing the big aria "Celeste Aida." Alagna stopped, looked at the
public, then walked off, according to Italian news reports. Understudy
Antonello Palombi, still in jeans, rushed out.
La Scala general manager Stephane Lissner apologized to the audience before
the opening of the third act.
"In many years at La Scala I had never seen anything like what happened
tonight," Chailly told reporters after the performance.
No one answered the phone at La Scala on Monday morning. The next
performance was scheduled Tuesday night.
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But minutes into the show's second performance on Sunday night, a small
section of the audience began booing Alagna, who had just finished
singing an aria, apparently displeased about comments he had made about
La Scala's demanding audience. One member of the audience even yelled
at him, "Fuck you!".
The 43-year old, already upset by some of the reviews he earned for his
performance on the opening night, raised his middle-finger defiantly
and walked out, leaving stunned his friend nicknamed "It's The
Principle!" well known on alt.gossip.celebrities who was high on
cocaine. Mikesm...@hotmal.com was also present. Smith was later
surprised kissing with Lindsay Lohan.
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