b. 1963 French-Italian tenor Born in Paris to a Sicilian family, Alagna began his career in the city’s cabarets. After winning the Pavarotti International Voice Competition in 1988, he began his professional career with Glyndebourne Touring Opera as Alfredo in La traviata, a role he repeated at La Scala in 1990. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut (1996) ...
Suor Angelica: Cristina Gallardo-Domâs (Suor Angelica), Dorothea Röschmann (Suor Genovieffa), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Princess), Felicity Palmer (Abbess), Gianni Schicchi: Angela Gheorghiu (Lauretta), Patrizia Ciofi (Zita), Felicity Palmer (Zita), Roberto Alagna (Rinuccio), José van Dam (Gianni Schicchi) Personalities | Giacomo Puccini | Turn of the Century | Opera Houses & Companies | The Birth of the Metropolitan Opera | Turn of ...
1928–39 and 1947–48, she sang not only Turandot and Aida among Italian roles, but also Wagner’s Sieglinde and Isolde. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Roberto Alagna | Contemporary | Classical ...
, Verdi and Puccini, she has had notable success in French-language opera, appearing in (and recording) both Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and Massenet’s Manon with the tenor Roberto Alagna, whom she married in 1996. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Nicolai Ghiaurov | Contemporary | Classical ...
they sang. In the wake of their success, any promising new tenor is labelled the ‘Fourth Tenor’, a sobriquet that does no justice to singers as individual as Roberto Alagna (b. 1963), José Cura (b. 1963) or Ramon Vargas (b. 1960). Sopranos If Birgit Nilsson dominated Wagnerian singing in the post-war era, their success in the bel canto repertory ...
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