Angela Gheorghiu News
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Even a dog can’t run away with the show when Roberto Alagna is on stage. As the sweetly silly farmhand in “L’Elisir d’Amore,” now at London’s Royal Opera House, the tenor hogs the limelight with his seductive voice and athletic belly flops.
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Angela Gheorghiu, draped in red taffeta with raven hair tumbling down one shoulder, treats a handful of journalists to a Puccini aria.
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“I get so absorbed in my roles, it’s like a drug,” says opera star Jonas Kaufmann . “I have to remember to keep control. I don’t want to end up really killing the soprano. I just want to make it look like it.”
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Finally, an opera all too long disdained by high-minded folks who want us to suffer through “Wozzeck” one more time, has returned exactly where it should be: center stage at the Royal Opera in London.
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When the Royal Opera House agreed to coproduce Rossini’s “La Donna del Lago” management hoped for something dazzling. Then Lluis Pasqual’s staging opened in Paris. It was dismal, and it was heading their way.
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When John Copley was asked to direct “La Boheme” at London’s Royal Opera, he was told the production had to be good enough to last at least five or six years.
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Imagine a job interview with a leering shrink.
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Peter Doherty is returning to music after years of being in the headlines for his personal life. The one-time fiance of Kate Moss, friend of Amy Winehouse and drug addict is playing a solo show on Friday.
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Shakespeare is coming home.
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