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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/11/italy.lascala.reut/index.html

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Learn to take a boo, bitch.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/11/italy.lascala.reut/long.alagna.ap.jpg

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

is that peter north?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I bet he got booed for that costume.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8669/peternorthspankwp9.gif

― 1/2 paleontologist 1/2 basketball player (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The 43-year old, already upset by some of the reviews he earned for his performance on the opening night, raised his fist defiantly and walked out, leaving stunned fellow singer Ildiko Komlosi to sing "a duet on my own."

LOLZ OPRA SINGERS = PROFESSIONAL WRSTLERS

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

La Scala, where the audience -- which forks out up to 2,000 euros ($2,637) for a ticket -- can be notoriously difficult

wtf, wow

― obi strip (sanskrit), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

This is how theater should be.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Tracer OTM!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I would love to heartily boo Julianne Moore at The Music Box this weekend.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I misread this and thought it was going to be about laughing at the founder of Rolling Stone and the RnR Hall of Fame as a foetus.

Yes, LOL at tiny Wenner.

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Greatest sandbox thread ever!

(Could prob'ly benefit from a "NSFW" warning, tho...)

― Myutiny Von Bounty (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

He's suing them now http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6174925.stm

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

They cancelled his contract. Which must be legitimate: we pay you to sing; you refuse to sing, we do not pay you.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of don't see how he has a leg to stand on here...? His quotes are hysterical, though!

"I went there to sing, to give the audience joy and pleasure," he told Reuters news agency.

"But what was I supposed to do when some people started booing? What if they had thrown stones at me or some crazy person had attacked me?

"La Scala should have protected me, the show should have been suspended."

Yeah buddy, WHAT IF some crazy person had run down the aisle, vaulted over the orchestra pit, climbed onstage and attacked you? What then? WHAT THEN, LA SCALA????????? Cough up some $$$$$$$$!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha, there was just a trailer for Channel 4 News on about this story with John Snow throwing his papers about to illustrate what a big ol' hissy fit looks like.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"But what was I supposed to do when some people started booing? [...]"

Well apparently "shake your fist and run away" wasn't the correct choice!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Andrea Bocelli would never have pulled this shit.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

omg

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

this would be funnier if he'd gone all Michael Richards' on their asses.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

But in the opera world, that's basically what he did!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

video: http://multimedia.repubblica.it/home/503086

linked from alex ross

― milton parker (milton parker), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Understudy Antonello Palombi was then forced to take the stage without warning, valiantly taking over the role, minus his costume.

this kind of reads like he took the stage naked

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

omg that blog post is a total rofflocolypse

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I must admit that that Alagna is surely envious of my perfect physique and of my glutes....

I think we need to see Zoolander II: Catwalk at La Scala.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The bit where he's singing a B over a big B-flat chord is something I will treasure forever.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

this would be funnier if he'd gone all Michael Richards' on their asses.
-- Shakey Mo Collier

"Shut up! 60 years ago we'd have you upside-down with your fucking whore by your side!"

http://extremecatholic.blogspot.com/images/mussolini-corpse.jpg

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Friday, 15 December 2006 07:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6182189.stm

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6182501.stm

A small group of opera buffs known as the 'loggionisti' standing or sitting in the top-most gallery of the 18th-Century opera house had booed, whistled and heckled the international opera star.

The 'loggionisti' - who claim to know every note of every opera by heart - are notorious for their rowdy behaviour when they consider a performance to be below standard.

Enrico Molinari, a noted Milan psychologist who is also a long-time frequenter of La Scala sitting among the loggionisti, told Italy's Ansa news agency "there are some real maniacs in the upper gallery."

"They listen to a recording of an opera four or five times before they go to see it, in order to recognise every nuance of every note," he said.

comicbookguy.jpeg

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

you post the links

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The best thing about this whole nonsensical affair is that this tenor is known for basically building his career on the coattails of his infinitely more talented wife; mostly because he's prone to doing shit like this and no one wanted to work with him before she started insisting that he get hired where she got hired.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

That video is awesome.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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