2021年5月6日 Roberto Alagna

今天听了一张Roberto Alagna的歌剧咏叹调专辑。

网上Roberto Alagna的中文介绍极少，只找到新浪博客有唯一一篇如下：

罗伯托•阿拉格纳（Roberto Alagna，1963－），著名法国男高音，1963年6月7日年出生于法国Clichy-sous-Bois，父母是移民法国西西里人。

阿拉格纳少年时期经常在巴黎歌舞厅唱流行歌曲，受电影《伟大的卡鲁索》中Mario Lanza的影响，以及听了史上很多著名男高音的录音，从中总结歌唱的技巧窍门，属自学成才，之后赢得帕瓦罗蒂声乐比赛，1988年作为《茶花女》(La Traviata)中的Alfredo Germont一角首演于Glyndebourne节，随后演出于法国和意大利的一些小城市，仅Alfredo一角演出达150场之多，随之声誉越来越大，1990年开始登台米兰Scala等大歌剧院，1992年，同年作为《La bohème》中的Rodolfo登台纽约大都会歌剧院，1994年在伦敦Covent花园出演了《Roméo et Juliette》中的Romeo，尤其擅长法国歌剧和更抒情的意大利语歌剧角色，后来开始尝试主演《Otello》等戏剧角色，2006年12月7日在Scala出演了《Aida》，2007年在纽约大都会歌剧院出演了《Madame Butterfly》中的Pinkerton，1994年前妻去逝后于1996年4月26日与女高音Angela Gheorghiu结婚。

 Wikipedia的英文介绍如下：

Alagna was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, outside the city of Paris, in 1963 to a family of Sicilian immigrants. As a teenager, the young Alagna began busking and singing pop in Parisian cabarets,^[3] mostly for tips.^[4] Influenced primarily by the films of Mario Lanza and learning from recordings of many historic tenors, he then switched to opera, but remained largely self-taught.^[5][6] He was discovered by Gabriel Dussurget, the co-founder of the Aix-en-Provence Festival.^[7]

After winning the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, an initiative backed by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, that started in Modena in 1988, Alagna made his professional debut as Alfredo Germont in La traviata with the Glyndebourne touring company.^[8] This led to many engagements throughout the smaller cities in France and Italy, mainly again as Alfredo, a role he would eventually sing over 150 times. His reputation grew and he was soon invited to sing at major theatres such as La Scala in 1990, Covent Garden in 1992 and the Metropolitan Opera as Rodolfo in 1996. His performances of Roméo in Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod at Covent Garden in 1994 (opposite Leontina Vaduva) catapulted him to international stardom.^[9]

Alagna opened the 2006/07 season at La Scala on 7 December 2006 in the new production of Aida by Franco Zeffirelli. During the second performance on 10 December, Alagna, whose opening performance was considered ill-at-ease, was booed and whistled from the loggione (the least expensive seats at the very back of La Scala), and he walked off the stage. The tenor's reaction to his public criticism was denounced as immature and unprofessional by La Scala management and Zeffirelli, who said, "A professional should never behave in this way. Alagna is too sensitive, it is too easy to hurt his feelings. He does not know how to act like a true star."^[10] The role of Radames was taken over successfully for the rest of the performance by his understudy Antonello Palombi, who entered on stage wearing jeans and a black shirt.^[11]

In 2007 while at the Metropolitan Opera singing the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Alagna replaced the indisposed tenor Rolando Villazón as Romeo in Roméo et Juliette opposite soprano Anna Netrebko for two performances in September and two performances in December. Alagna was also engaged by the Metropolitan Opera at the last minute to cover for the indisposed Marco Berti [it] in a 16 October 2007 performance of Aida. After the performance, the audience gave him a standing ovation.^[12] The 15 December performance of Roméo et Juliette starring Alagna and Netrebko was broadcast by the Met into 447 theatres worldwide in high definition and seen by about 97,000 people.^[13]

In recent years, Alagna has been an advocate of restoring to prominence neglected French operas – Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac, Massenet's Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, Lalo's Fiesque, and new works – Vladimir Cosma's Marius et ***** and his brother David Alagna's Le dernier jour d'un condamné. He has also recorded light music with an homage album to Luis Mariano, Sicilien, and Pasión.

Alagna was scheduled to make his debut at the Bayreuth Festival on opening day, 25 July 2018, in the title role of a new production of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin. Alagna withdrew from the festival on 29 June 2018 citing failure to learn the role in time.^[14]

难以相信他是自学成才的。