online chat with Le Monde de la Musique
OK, it's ovah!
And to think that we turned down an invitation to the opening of the new Ballantyne store in via Sant'Andrea for this! wtf!
Anyway, very few newsworthy bits (and remember the chat transcript will soon be up at the Le Monde de la Musique site).
Alagna said he won't be able to make it to Milan to see Angela in Traviata at la Scala next week because he's busy working (k).
He repeated that the opposition against him at la Scala for Aida last December was "political":
it's too long to explain those political reasons, i can only say it was a new direction a la scala for this opening and the old direction made everything to spoil the evening
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tthe loggionisti were not against me i think they know me very well i have nothing with them
About his lawsuit with la Scala and GM Stephane Lissner:
je suis en procès avec la scala... nous verrons bien
About his future choices:
j'aimerais bien chanter la périchole d'offenbach
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i would like to sing in russian, the language is beautiful, so warm, i need time to study or maybe to find a very good teacher, nasdarovie
There was time for the downright bizarre.
I change parfume each day
His plans for the future:
i will sing chenier in monte-carlo next year, at the Met Peter Gelb changed with butterfly because it's a new production and the chenier was made by Volpe, the old manager