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To: Zakeet
Why did the crowd boo him? I saw nothing in the whole article telling why.
3 posted on 12/11/2006 10:52:06 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Baker's Iraq Surrender Group - warming up the last helicopter out of Baghdad.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I want to know also why they booed him. The audience in Italy can get rough. We had an incident also in NY recently.


10 posted on 12/11/2006 10:58:57 AM PST by Dante3
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To: KarlInOhio
"What else could I do?" Alagna said in an interview Monday with Italy's Tg5 news. "Did I have to stay there ... until my voice broke?"

The "Celeste Aida" aria requires the tenor to reach and sustain some pretty high notes. Perhaps he was having difficulty...or perhaps there were just some jerks in the audience that thought it would be fun to harass him.
15 posted on 12/11/2006 11:11:04 AM PST by Captain Rhino ( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Also, why wouldn't the understudy be dressed to perform?


17 posted on 12/11/2006 11:13:24 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: KarlInOhio

Well, he's not the first one to be booed in La Scala history. In the good old days, when the new music was not up to snuff, the crowd used to grab the conductor with his chair, lift it [and him], and carry him [with chair] in the buffet.


20 posted on 12/11/2006 11:45:48 AM PST by GSlob
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