Learn to take a boo, bitch.
is that peter north?
I bet he got booed for that costume.
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
La Scala, where the audience — which forks out up to 2,000 euros ($2,637) for a ticket — can be notoriously difficult
wtf, wow
This is how theater should be.
Tracer OTM!
I would love to heartily boo Julianne Moore at The Music Box this weekend.
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.
Greatest sandbox thread ever!
(Could prob’ly benefit from a “NSFW” warning, tho...)
He’s suing them now http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6174925.stm
They cancelled his contract. Which must be legitimate: we pay you to sing; you refuse to sing, we do not pay you.
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 $$$$$$$$!
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.
“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!
Andrea Bocelli would never have pulled this shit.
omg
this would be funnier if he’d gone all Michael Richards’ on their asses.
But in the opera world, that’s basically what he did!
video: http://multimedia.repubblica.it/home/503086
linked from alex ross
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
omg that blog post is a total rofflocolypse
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.
The bit where he’s singing a B over a big B-flat chord is something I will treasure forever.
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://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
you post the links
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.
That video is awesome.