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The opera star has rediscovered happiness and enthusiasm using the art form New York: French-Italian tenor Roberto Alagna says he feels reborn. At age 50, he has a new girlfriend and a new baby on the ...

The orchestra played on. Alagna’s co-star Ildiko Komlosi gamely began what was meant to be a duet, addressing it to no one in particular: “Di quale nobil fierezza ti balena il volto! (What noble ...

Lise Davidsen unleashed rare grandeur of tone throughout her range in the title role of Strauss’s opera. By Zachary Woolfe On three successive nights at the Metropolitan Opera, the emphasis was on ...

At last, we now know for a fact what their fans had long suspected (and what both had heavily hinted to me in interviews this year) - tenor Roberto Alagna and soprano Angela Gheorghiu, opera’s ‘golden ...

More telephone ring tones come from Bizet's Carmen that any other opera. This is no coincidence: Carmen is simply packed with glorious well-known arias which turn it into an exuberant performance of ...