To portray Roberto Alagna in full confinement is like commenting on biathlon in the middle of August: an antilogy.
At 57 years old, the tenor is one of those voices that have never followed just one: theirs.
Do not count on him to pour out his sun in one and the same LP: after thirty-five years of recording career, his gaps have ended up drawing lines as surprising as the geoglyphs of Nazca.
Often attracting the wrath of a lyrical milieu reluctant to share its stars.
“They don't want their tenor to be stolen from them, for it to go astray in other styles, as they sometimes say.
But he doesn't care: he only trusts his instinct ",
says mezzo-soprano Béatrice Uria-Monzon, who has been the accomplice in some of her most significant roles in opera.
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Impulsive, Roberto Alagna?
“
Above all, he has a bestial survival instinct
,
”
confides conductor Alain Altinoglu, who has accompanied him both in recital and in opera.
It's with
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