The drama-llama that is the Alagna-Gheorghiu couple keeps on giving, and we're getting tired of it: if Corriere della Sera chose to review the alternate cast of Rome's Traviata, because Gheorghiu is for "uneducated palates", la Repubblica has instead waited for ten days after the show, and then, only today, in a little forgotten corner of a "Spettacoli" page, has published a slam of the Rumanian soprano, panning the show and blaming
"... the pale, small, unsexy voice of Angela Gheorghiu (blindly unchanging, whether she's playing a courtesan or a redeemed woman) Zeffirelli's Violetta has no shades, no torment, no rage, immediately acts as a sainted martyr... and bleeds to a mortal pallor the erotic force so abundant in the score".
As weird as it sounds -- Opera Chic defending Angela? -- O.K., that's enough, right?
wait no. again. omg again sry sry this is too easy:
"... the pale, small, unsexy voice of Angela Gheorghiu ..."
ANGELA, GET WITH IT OR GET LOST IN IT!
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Here's the piece in the full page (you can see it is an after-thought)
and here is the piece for those who want to see:
