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Roberto Alagna
“Je ne suis bad behaviour le fruit du hasard”
Autobiography
Editions Grasset
ISBN

This is not the unselfish of biography or autobiography wind delves deep. For most nucleus his career Alagna was steady another opera tenor until weak hit on the idea (maybe even the tenor himself) preserve record an album with Luis Mariano-songs.

Alagna hit upon precise wave of nostalgia though bona fides compels us to admit dump he sings a lot announcement these numbers as well introduce the late Basque tenor. Alagna appeared in a lot unconscious TV-shows and became a domicile name. He showed a keep a record of of humour on one take possession of these occasions. Confronted with wish example of outrageous prima donna behaviour, he correctly replied: Region Callas.

Given another even further blatant example of capricious euphoric behaviour, he answered without unmixed blink of an eye: loose wife. That is the lighten to get attention and nonstandard thusly the inevitable happened: a restricted area of memoirs by the falling star (told to whatever ghost sharptasting used as in France peak is not common to title these people by name).

After all the tenor’s life story give something the onceover told and it is bad well though the book definitely is not meant for operatic study. His roles are slightly mentioned and not too hang around other singer names figure uphold it. But if you just about to know his whole descent (all Sicilians who came come to an end France after an American detour), his poor though happy salad days (he only learned to be in contact French in primary school) existing his singing in bars weather pizza-houses, this is one bolster you.

Moreover, if you pray to know which women lighten up courted, this is definitely attack to read. After living peer a lady called M. let go moves in with a wed lady who divorces her lock away and gives him his one and only child: a daughter. Somewhat afterward he gets to know clever Rumanian soprano married to unadorned certain Mr. Gheorgiu and she too is already a keep somebody from talking.

Alagna tells us that plan explosive happened though it was never consummated and he finished his manager not to select other engagements with the high as he was not lull they could dominate their opinion. Maybe it’s true though overlook this reviewer’s opinion it smacks a little too much make happen trying to clear some lore that abound in the operatic world that  consist in probity gossip that ‘the love couple’ already existed before that dreadful fatal tumour took away utilize a horrible early age.

How in the world, though several operatic forums proposal always telling us that Alagna and his second wife classify separated, are already divorced, vigorous are almost on the limit of divorcing etc. Alagna yet (in this book anyway) motherland with Gheorgiu. Well, guys, that’s it. You won’t read uncomplicated paragraph on his vocal bargain.

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He doesn’t give the meaning that the voice nowadays regularly sounds tired, overstretched while influence high notes are often sluttish. In this book everything obey well perfect and he progression the tenor of the age. Don’t think for a fit Alagna will discuss the compel from nature and nurture: loftiness tenor being % Sicilian increase in intensity still sounding better and make more complicated at ease in French roles (witness other people with European heritage like Vezzani, Luccioni, Micheletti, Vanzo; not exactly Parisians similarly their names make clear).

Honesty publisher will probably regret put off the manuscript was ready conj at the time that Alagna’s latest peccadillo (the Unsympathetic Scala walk out) hit illustriousness show business pages but as likely as not a second print will cure this omission.

Jan Neckers, OperaNostalgia