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Examiner (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Soprano Angela Gheorghiu (gee-or-GEE'-yoo) has canceled her remaining two performances of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bizet's "Carmen."
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
The Metropolitan Opera reports that Angela Gheorghiu has withdrawn from singing the lead in Carmen on April 28 and May...
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An Unamplified Voice (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Simon Boccanegra -- Metropolitan Opera, 1/25/10 Domingo, Pieczonka, Giordani, Morris, Carfizzi / Levine The last Met revival of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra was an exquisitely-felt enactment, driven as much by Angela Gheorghiu's luminous Amelia -- one of her finest parts at the Met -- as Thomas Hampson's eloquent old rogue of a Boccanegra. This revival is less thoroughly emotive, but a success nonetheless....
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Underbelly (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
Okay, here's the scoop on the Met's HD Carmen , as seen at the Palookaville multiplex yesterday: it was a room largely populated by 50- to 80-year-old women, decently dressed and presentable, all kicking themselves sideways for having listened to the nuns in middle school. Think of it: with just a little bit of enterprise, they could have been the brooding, butt-smoking beauty who gets to run off with...
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Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 01/07/2010
"I like to say that the fairies came to me when I was born and gave me what any artist wishes for" Angela Gheorghiu recently bared her self-effacing soul to Romanian TV channel Antena 2. She confirms our suspicions about...
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An Unamplified Voice (Free subscription) | 12/15/2009
Three days ago the blog turned five years old. As ever, I offer some selections from the last year's worth of posts... On Maija Kovalevska and Puccini's La Boheme On Puccini's La Rondine and Angela Gheorghiu On Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa's 90th birthday On Verdi's Il Trovatore On Dvorak's Rusalka On Mary Zimmerman's production of Sonnambula Review -- Metropolitan Opera 125th Anniversary Gala On...
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OC (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
George Stevens Jr.: "Only at the Kennedy Center Honors are you going to get 'Springtime for Hitler' and Angela Gheorghiu." http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/07/kennedy-center-honorees-reflect-americas-diversity//print/ ____ Angela Gheorghiu: "There were so many politicians in D.C. last night, I thought to myself, while I was singing, that I was putting up a Bill before Congress!"...
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Berkshire Review for the Arts (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The recent news of Angela Gheorghiu’s impending divorce from Roberto Alagna may give some clue as to why this performance, part of the South Bank’s second ‘International Voices’ season, was postponed from its planned date of 2nd October. In the interim she has also, in the role of her accompanying tenor, swapped the American up-and-comer James Valenti, due to co-star with her...
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The Opera Tattler (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Next week is the American CD release of Alberto Veronesi conducting L'amico Fritz at Deutsche Opera Berlin in 2008. Tenor Roberto Alagna sings the title role and Angela Gheorghiu is Suzel. One imagines it will be one of the last...
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San Antonio's Classical Oasis (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Despite a divorce, Gheorghiu & Alagna are stellar in this new release!Alberto Veronesi conducts Pietro Mascagni’s rarely performed opera L’amico Fritz starring soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna, on a new recording to be released by Deutsche Grammophon next Tuesday, November 17, 2009. The album was recorded in 2008 during acclaimed live performances at Deutsche Oper Berlin...
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Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"when I met her for the first time earlier this summer, my hackles sank: she was funny and full of beans, she was generous-spirited and appreciative, she looked a million dollars. Then I went home and discovered that she had...
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Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Booing is so like over. Thank you official Royal Opera House blogger HairMan for the reminder of the moment Angela Gheorghiu received a different kind of performance appraisal: "Well, the donkey stole it. He had done his walk-on part, but...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Tempestuous soprano Angela Gheorghiu and turbulent tenor Roberto Alagna were once the opera world's best-publicized love match, married on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani. This weekend, their long-rumored separation became public via dueling statements to the press....
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
This week, things heated up between the singers. The tenor told an interviewer that his wife wouldn't hear of divorce. She fired back on her Web site: “Angela Gheorghiu wishes to emphasize that she has been separated from Roberto Alagna for the last two years. Her attempts to save the marriage in this period failed. Having initiated divorce proceedings months ago, she awaits the finalisation...
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The Opera Tattler (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
This is old news, but Angela Gheorghiu has announced she is to divorce Roberto Alagna. Official Site | News
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