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	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| ROBERTO ALAGNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roberto Alagna was born in France of Sicilian parents.
		In 1994 Roberto Alagna was named Personnalité Musicale de l'Année by the French national press, and in April 1995 he was awarded the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.
		In February 2001 Roberto Alagna was presented with 'La Medaille Vermeil de la Ville de Paris' by the Mayor of Paris, Jean Tibéri, which is the highest distinction that the Mayor can bestow on a French citizen.
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/ralb.html (868 words)

	Amazon.ca: Nessun Dorma: Music: Roberto Alagna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alagna is, for the most part, remarkably successful, bringing interesting nuances to even the most familiar of the arias ("Nessun dorma," "Cielo e mar") and making a fine case for a beautiful, sad aria from Zandonai's Giulietta e Romeo and painting a vivid portrait of the drunken title character from Wolf-Ferrari's Sly.
		Alagna darkens his tone to a rich bronze to become both the drunken poet of the title and his alter ego, the pathetic, lovestruck performing bear.
		Alagna fans will certainly love this recording, but all opera buff will probably want this CD in their collection, not just for its sheer beauty, but also its array of lesser known pieces we would not otherwise have the opportunity to enjoy.
	www.amazon.ca /Nessun-Dorma-Roberto-Alagna/dp/B0000DD76K (2941 words)

	La Scena Musicale - The Lebrecht Weekly
		For the record, Angela Gheorghiu, 34, and Roberto Alagna, 37, are as closely entwined as they have been since they fell for each other at Covent Garden while Alagna was singing Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in October 1994.
		Alagna's wife had just died of cancer and his performance possessed an almost unendurable pathos; Gheorghiu had a Romanian husband, but he got somehow mislaid.
		What the Alagnas are travelling, therefore, is an unmapped road roamed by sinister forces who, in Gheorghiu's view, lie in wait to sandbag the love-struck innocents.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/000216-NL-alagna-gheorghiu.htm (1207 words)

	Roberto Alagna (Grandi Tenori.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alagna succeeded in being signed for a lucrative contract with EMI in April 1993 (extended 1998) ensuring him a series of recordings, of which his 2000 recording of Verdi arias with Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker stand out.
		Roberto Alagna is married to the Rumanian star soprano Angela Gheorghiu and they have appeared together in both opera performances and recordings.
		French tenor Roberto Alagna has for long belonged to the most coveted opera singers world wide and has been widely recognized as the most important tenor in the last decade of the 20th century.
	www.grandi-tenori.com /tenors/new/alagna.php (384 words)

	BERLIOZ Roberto Alagna DG 4776277 [RH]: Classical CD Reviews- July 2006 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Granted Alagna singing in French is always a joy to listen to, but his technique owes far more to his Italian heritage than French; the open-throated-ness of his singing would seem to have little in common with such tenors as Georges Thill.
		Alagna’s voice is not that of an ideal Énée, his open timbre means that he lacks the narrow focus and sense of line that is desirable in this music.
		Alagna is on good form here and both excerpts are sung exquisitely, making me wish that there had been more from this neglected work.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2006/July06/Alagna_Berlioz_4776277.htm (855 words)

	Roberto Alagna - Profile of the French Tenor / ML Hart's Words & Music
		Born in France to an immigrant Sicilian family, Roberto Alagna grew up in a musical family which he describes as opera on his mother's side, popular music on his father's.
		Alagna is intelligent, curious and passionate about operatic history as well as knowledgable about his own voice, and he stretches outside of the narrowly defined box many in the opera world want to place him in.
		ROBERTO ALAGNA ON One of Roberto Alagna's passions is finding new ways to film opera, to bring the excitement to a new generation of audiences.
	www.mlhart.com /WordsMusic/bio_Alagna.htm (633 words)

	Roberto Alagna French arias
		Although Roberto Alagna is of Sicilian background, he was born and raised in France (the liner notes refer to him as "Parisian").
		Alagna's French diction is certainly far more idiomatic than what we are generally used to hearing today, it does not have the remarkably pointed clarity of such artists as ClÈment, Cazette, Thill, and Vanzo.
		The repertoire is certainly adventurous, and the performances affirm Roberto Alagna's importance as a contemporary advocate of French opera.
	classicalcdreview.com /rafr.htm (677 words)

	Roberto Alagna in Paris - Opera arias & Neapolitan songs
		This is not to say that Alagna’s affecting voice in Puccini’s Non piagere, Liu or in the O Souverain, o Juge, o Pere from Massenet’s Le Cid are not powerful, but the top and chest-resonance are somewhat dissipated, lost in the telephone booth, as it were.
		Alagna is not Del Monaco nor Domingo, however, so the spinto power is sweet and delicate, more in the manner of Carreras.
		Alagna’s vocal control in Halevy’s Rachel, quand du Seigneur is resilient and capable of swooping octaves without strain.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=258 (475 words)

	Roberto Alagna - L'un des ténors les plus demandés
		Roberto Alagna et Angela Gheorghiu déchaînent les passions.
		Roberto Alagna est un homme sous influence(s), et il le revendique.
		» Et comme du côté de maman Alagna, tout le monde chantait de l'opéra (alors que du côté du père, c'était les variétés), l'amour du fils pour le lyrique a grossi, lentement, sûrement.
	www.jcarreras.homestead.com /AlagnaArtLebanon2002.html (819 words)

	Roberto ALAGNA The Christmas Album: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alagna fans will hardly need the stimulus of a review to rush out and buy the tenor's first foray into the Christmas music market.
		Once or twice one has the feeling that Alagna is not quite sure when to start singing at the beginning of the songs, and in order to achieve a semblance of unity there is rather too much artificial digital ambience used by the engineers to hide the seams.
		Alagna will doubtless create many new, albeit unsuspecting, fans with his Christmas Album and one only hopes they go on to explore a little of his Gounod, Massenet, Puccini or Verdi rather than choose to wait for yet another popular excursion.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2001/Jan01/alagna.htm (634 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Roberto Alagna: Bel Canto CD contest
		The record is conducted by the bel canto specialist Evelino Pido and Roberto Alagna is joined in two of the excerpts (La Sonnambula and I Puritani) by a short 'star cameo' appearance from his wife, star soprano Angela Gheorghiu.
		As Roberto Alagna himself writes in the liner notes: "I have tried, together with Evelino, to illustrate the different stylistic stages of Donizettian and Bellinian bel canto.
		Alagna starred in French director Benoît Jacquot's film of Puccini's opera Tosca, which was released in the USA in 2002.
	www.ambafrance-us.org /culture/music/events/02alagnabelcontest.html (1016 words)

	Classical Net Review - Roberto Alagna - French Arias
		Alagna's singing, of course, continues to be appealing.
		Whether praise goes to the conductor, the producer (David Groves), or to Alagna himself for finding and including these rarities, the praise is deserved; these are vital, exciting arias, not just dull curiosities that lose the listener's attention as quickly as they attract it.
		Alagna remains a lyric tenor, but he has the power to sing with heft and heroism, when the music requires him to.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/e/emi57012a.html (509 words)

	Michael Storrs Music - Roberto Alagna
		Roberto Alagna Pavol Breslik José Carreras Patrizia Ciofi Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Annick Massis Francesco Meli Elaine Paige Teatro Regio di Parma's Opera Ensemble Bryn Terfel Rolando Villazón
		Roberto Alagna signed an exclusive recording contract in 2004 with Deutsche Grammophone, releasing DVDs of a solo recital in Paris for the re-opening of the Salle Gaveau, Cyrano de Bergerac and I Pagliacci, and the album Roberto Alagna sings Luis Mariano which went platinum, selling more that 380,000 copies.
		Roberto Alagna regularly participates in international concerts in honour of the Nobel Peace Prize and sung for Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee.
	www.michaelstorrsmusic.co.uk /roberto_alagna (410 words)

	Amazon.ca: Christmas Album: Music: Roberto Alagna,John Francis Wade,Christmas Traditional,John Henry, Jr. Hopkins,Henri ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Composer: Roberto Alagna, John Francis Wade, et al.
		Roberto Alagna completes the picture by finishing each number with the kind of staggering fortissimo high note that makes the roof of your mouth tingle.
		Alagna's intention was to create an album reminiscent of the great Hollywood recordings and EMI has succeeded admirably, right down to the fabulously cheesy booklet photos involving fake snow and yule logs.
	www.amazon.ca /Christmas-Album-Roberto-Alagna/dp/B00004YA0N (442 words)

	'Life is dangerous. I like danger. I am crazy' \| Review \| The Observer
		Alagna's multi-talented siblings play their guitars to accompany him on a CD of serenades, and he has commissioned an opera from one of them, based on a Victor Hugo story about a condemned man awaiting his execution.
		I'm sure that Alagna, so hyperkinetic that he seems to be chas ing his own tail, will find a way of stabbing himself in the back.
		Alagna has Gheorghiu, four Rolexes, an equal number of houses, and a goodly supply of high Cs (let's hope) banked in his throat.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1232213,00.html (1546 words)

	Decca Music Group - Roberto Alagna
		The story goes that Roberto Alagna was discovered singing for tips in a smoky pizza parlour in Paris.
		The rags-to-riches story is often quoted in the press, but Alagna's road to the top of his profession has not always been easy.
		His ebullient nature and his true lyric voice however have carried the day and Alagna, now happily re-married to soprano Angela Gheorghiu is enjoying an international career.
	www.deccaclassics.com /artists/alagna/biog.html (222 words)

	Roberto Alagna - Voce di tenore
		The glory of Alagna's Romeo has various elements.
		His voice has grown and the visceral force with which it comes off the stage can be extremely exciting...
		This site is not affiliated in any way with Roberto Alagna or his management.
	www.jcarreras.homestead.com /Alagna1.html (73 words)

	Amazon.com: Roberto Alagna ~ Serenades: Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Francesco Paolo Tosti,Georges Bizet,Ernesto ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roberto Alagna give impassioned interpretations of popular Italian songs and Italian and French operatic serenades by Bizet, Mozart, Leoncavallo and Rossini.
		Alagna's wife), Il mio nome from The Barber of Seville, and Lolita.
		Alagna's command of both Italian and French and the beauty of his lyric tenor make this recording a treat.
	www.amazon.com /Roberto-Alagna-Serenades-Wolfgang-Amadeus/dp/B000002RYT (1002 words)

	ROBERTO ALAGNA
		OperaNet had the good fortune to encounter Roberto Alagna in his dressing room during one of the intervals of Don Carlos at the Châtelet.
		Roberto Alagna: I'm not entirely certain if I made the right choice because, as the expression goes, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country", and that applies to me as well.
		As Alagna has been drinking a magic potion during all this time, we couldn't resist asking what it was.
	www.culturekiosque.com /opera/intervie/ra1alagn.htm (577 words)

	Angel Records
		Another important role for Alagna has been Rodolfo in La Bohème. The Monte Carlo Opera, La Scala and the Liceo in Barcelona have each in turn engaged him in this role and it was as Rodolfo that he made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in April 1992.
		Alagna's major appearances this year include Roméo et Juliette in Chicago, L'Amico Fritz in Monaco and L'Elisir d'amore at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
		In 1994 Roberto Alagna was named Personalité Musicale de l'Année by the French national press, and in April 1995 he was awarded the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.
	www.angelrecords.com /biography.asp?ContributorID=4428 (632 words)

	Great Performances . Dialogue . The Queen's Jubilee Gala: Live from Buckingham Palace . Roberto Alagna \| PBS
		Thirty-eight-year-old Roberto Alagna is probably the finest lyric tenor of his generation and has performed leading roles in all the world's important opera houses.
		Born in France of proud Sicilian parentage, he is married to the equally renowned and distinguished Romanian operatic soprano, Angela Gheorghiu (pictured above).
		Roberto Alagna: It will mean an incredible amount to Angela and me. We first met each other in London, when we appeared together in "La Boheme" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, ten years ago.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/dialogue/dialogue_ralagna.html (724 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Spotlight: Alagna and Gheorghiu in Los Angeles; James Conlon Goes Back to School
		Tenor Roberto Alagna killed his wife in Los Angeles this fall—but she didn’t seem to mind.
		Alagna sang the role of the clown Canio in I Pagliacci while his real-life wife, soprano Angela Gheorghiu, played Canio’s wife, Nedda.
		Alagna is currently touring to promote an album of songs associated with one his heroes, Luis Mariano, a Spanish-born, French operetta singer who was a major stage star in postwar Paris.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/3315.html (1098 words)

	Roberto Alagna - Verdi Arias : CD review
		Since moving to the Deutsche Grammophon label from EMI in 2004, the tenor Roberto Alagna's recordings have been few and far between: only a DVD of Cyrano de Bergerac and a concert from Paris have been released in recent times.
		Now DG has repackaged and reissued nine of Alagna's solo recitals from EMI on CD in a 'Best of Alagna' collection, including music from French and Italian operas and a Christmas album.
		Arias from ten operas are included, ranging from I Lombardi in 1843 to Otello in 1887, and on the whole, Alagna emerges as a stylish Verdian.
	www.musicomh.com /recordings/cd-alagna_0606.htm (563 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alagna made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in April 1992.
		In April 1993, Roberto Alagna signed an exclusive recording contract with EMI Classics.
		Roberto Alagna brings takes a new approach to the 20th century Italian opera, and discovers some seldom-performed...
	www.iclassics.com /artistBio?contentId=8 (350 words)

	Roberto Alagna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roberto Alagna on the cover of his Bel Canto album
		The two singers also starred in a film version of Puccini's Tosca directed by French film director Benoît Jacquot.
		Recently, Roberto Alagna opened the 2006-07 season at Milan's legendary Teatro alla Scala on December 7, 2006 in the new production of Aida by Franco Zeffirelli with the Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana as his Aida.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roberto_Alagna (401 words)

	Roberto Alagna - Live in Paris
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Roberto Alagna - Live in Paris to receive a rating.
		Award-winning tenor Roberto Alagna proffers a lengthy recital of some masterful works in this live show, which was shot in Paris on January 8th and 11th, 2001.
		Alagna has appeared all over the world after establishing a formidable reputation for himself when appearing in a performance of LA TRAVIATA, which was staged by the Glyndebourne Touring Opera.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/roberto_alagna_live_in_paris (365 words)

	Roberto Alagna - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Roberto Alagna - Voce di tenore, Biography, Reviews, Articles, Photo GalleryTable of Contents.
		The remarkable critical acclaim received by Roberto Alagna following his performances as Roméo at...
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