It's Gheorghiupalooza in the latest issue of Opera News.
First, she baffles the otherwise smitten -- and vaguely horny, ah those leopard print brawrs -- interviewer & cancels her appearance at Manhattan's Mandarin Oriental hotel bar (a future venue for her lounge act?):
Angela Gheorghiu is the picture of breezy success. Dressed in jeans and a brown hoodie-camisole, with just a naughty peek of a leopard-print bra, she arranges herself for the videographer she has brought to tape our interview in the café of Manhattan's exquisite Mandarin Oriental hotel. But as he sets up his camera, the hotel's management descends upon us to forbid its use. Gheorghiu is just as quick to act. She collects her things, muttering, "We can go to another place. I don't care about this hotel," and turns to her interviewer with equal decision. "You have your recording," she teases, gesturing to my audio recorder, "and I have mine." And with that, like Adam and Eve expelled from Eden, we make our way into the harsh light of a balmy Manhattan afternoon for a chat in Central Park — Angela, me, the Romanian videographer and her publicist, smiling bravely as he can.
Then, finally settled en plein air, she slams poor Bill Mason, general director of Chicago Lyric Opera who strangely insisted that singers show up for the occasional rehearsal, then promptly fired her:
"It's unfair for the public. [General director William Mason] made a really stupid and unfair and unrespectful [decision] for the public. He behaved like a child. Because it's much more important to have the respect for thousands of people who buy the ticket to see Angela than in front of two colleagues and himself. Because I asked them to go and see Roberto. So, I made all the rehearsals necessary for La Bohème and for Angela, eh? I remember they need a little bit of publicity because they have problems with unions in that period. I remember, Traviata and things."
It goes downhill from there, when she explains that she's too "savage" for Mozart. Thus confirming OC's impression that Roberto is not only the more talented half of the couple, but also the more stable.