OperaWire caught up with Alagna at the Royal Ballet and Opera House, Covent Garden, where he is performing the role of Calaf ...
Robert Lepage's imaginative production of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, which premiered last season to sold out houses, returns to the Met on October 23. Three stars sing their roles for the first ...
It’s almost 20 years since tenor Roberto Alagna burst onto the scene as an ardent Romeo in Gounod’s Romeo et Juiette at The Royal Opera and he’s been a regular visitor there ever since. In demand by ...
To sit in a small room with Roberto Alagna and Elina Garanca is to be engulfed by operatic glamour. She is cool, blonde and stunningly beautiful and he‘s the ruggedly handsome half of one of opera’s ...
As San Francisco Opera enters its second century with a season opening program Friday night, it jettisons a long tradition of kicking things off with a popular opera and opts instead to mount a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Roberto Alagna says he always makes a point of stepping forward after a performance to shake hands with the prompter. Never has he had more reason than in his current run of "Manon ...
Roberto Alagna has sung with a wife on the Met stage before. In fact, he was married on that stage, in 1996—to Angela Gheorghiu, the Romanian soprano. (Alagna is an Italian-French tenor.) Presiding ...
Roberto Alagna is replacing tenor Rolando Villazon in the first two performances of the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” next month. “Mr. Villazon has canceled his ...