Chailly: Alagna Sunk My Manon Lescaut
Riccardo Chailly today took part in a press event to plug the release of his forthcoming Aida DVD, a recording of the unfortunate Scala production of last December.
Chailly explained that his next opera in Milan should have been Manon Lescaut with, um, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu.
"The Manon project was linked to Alagna and Gheorghiu's casting, so (General Manager Stéphane) Lissner and I chose another work, Il Trittico. An opera that hasn't been staged here at la Scala in the last 25 years", Chailly said.


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Posted by:Parsifal | June 05, 2007 at 07:29 PM
A giant giant hug to Parsifal! It's been a dark, lonely patch without you! Thanks for stopping in! I loved your latest posts, and will be checking you every day...
Posted by:Opera Chic | June 05, 2007 at 08:28 PM
Heyyyy OC¡
I've just finished my gazpacho dinner and I'd been at the verge of blurfffffff¡¡¡ with the new `Roberto's Fashion criminal attempt..
( is this the "completo" to match the sharp white shoes??????)
By the way.. went to barcelona's auditorium on saturday and Pappano i Santa Cecilia were terrific ... what a "pines and fountains of Rome"
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