Loggionisti Need Not Apply: The Alarghiu Family Takes Marseille

Ten minutes of applause -- most of it thanks to the New York Sun critic disguised as a Frenchman, beret on his head and baguette under his armpit, "Bush-Cheney 08 ANYWAY" sticker concealed under the shirt -- in Marseille last night for Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu in the premiere of the Vladimir Cosma's (the guy who scored the flicks from La Boum series, teen-movies extraordinaire that make John Hughes look like Billy Wilder) new opera, Marius Et Fanny.

As we said the other day, for all OC's dislike for AG, we're rooting for a Alagna comeback; now, doing Cosma in Marseille is not exactly the greatest thing ever, but here's hoping the surgery fixed everything and now Roburto can go back to having an illness-free, temper-tantrum-free career (but please, still with a bit of drama now and then!).

Comments

[pk205]

Hey! I resent any badmouthing of the Boum series. For those of us who were teenagers in the 80s, anything with Sophie Marceau in it was a major event in our emotional development! Particularly when she graduated into full French female stardom, complete with gratuitous (and plentiful) skin scenes in every movie...

Plus I insist that you're picking on the wrong half of the Gheorgna juggernaught: it's not Angie who has the voice of a donkey (and here start the flamewars!).

[coccodrillo]

Sophie Marceu is tasty

[DEE ZOCH]

roberto has the voice of a donkey?are you out of your mind? please have your hearing checked.plus your manners.are you a music critic of some kind?what periodical do you write for?i bet you dont write for anything.am i right?