Opera Warhorses

The Wall Street Journal published an unflattering essay (”A Hissy Fit Too Far”) about tenor Roberto Alagna’s recent unsuccessful appearance as Rhadames in La Scala’s Franco Zefferelli production of Verdi’s “Aida”.  The article, under the byline of Ian Brunskill, obituaries editor(!) of the Times of London, held forth the proposition that Alagna has been promoted [...]

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