Accessibility links
Roberto Alagna Roberto Alagna artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music

Roberto Alagna

Music

Boos Drive Opera Singer Off of La Scala's Stage

Top tenor Roberto Alagna has become the first singer in memory to walk off the stage of Milan's La Scala opera house in mid-performance. He stormed out after being booed by the audience in the middle of a performance of Verdi's Aida.

Boos Drive Opera Singer Off of La Scala's Stage

Listen
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6612898/6612899" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
A Shocker In Real Time: Puccini's 'Tosca'

Tosca (Catherine Naglestad) with her politically subversive lover, the painter Caravadossi (Roberto Alagna). Photo Grand Angle Orange hide caption

toggle caption
Photo Grand Angle Orange

10 Operas You Need To Know From World Of Opera

A Shocker In Real Time: Puccini's 'Tosca'

Execution, extortion, and exploitation. No, it's not an episode of Showtime's Dexter. It's Puccini's operatic thriller Tosca, which takes a surprisingly realistic approach to the passage of dramatic time with scenes of physical and psychological torture.

'Tosca' at Theatre Antique

Listen · 3:29
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/129300933/129300749" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
'Carmen': Bizet's One-Opera Hit Parade

The tortured relationship between Carmen (mezzo-soprano Beatrice Uria-Monzon) and Don Jose (tenor Roberto Alagna) is at the center of one of opera's biggest blockbusters. A. Bofil/Liceu Theatre Barcelona hide caption

toggle caption
A. Bofil/Liceu Theatre Barcelona

10 Operas You Need To Know From World Of Opera

'Carmen': Bizet's One-Opera Hit Parade

WDAV

Georges Bizet is only known for one opera — but he packs more hummable tunes than usual into it. This production features Roberto Alagna as Don Jose.

Carmen

Listen · 3:32
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/135014971/135015027" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Passion From Hell: Zandonai's 'Francesca da Rimini'

Francesca (Svetla Vassileva) is tricked into marrying an odious older man, but she still harbors feelings for his brother Paulo (Roberto Alagna). Mirco Magliocca /Opéra national de Paris hide caption

toggle caption
Mirco Magliocca /Opéra national de Paris

NPR World of Opera

Passion From Hell: Zandonai's 'Francesca da Rimini'

WDAV

A woman forced into a political marriage with a brutal older man falls madly in love — with her brother-in-law. The story is told in the second circle of hell.

Francesca da Rimini

  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/134423750/134421373" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Browse archive or search npr.org