Tenor denies kicking conductor out of Paris

By norman lebrecht
on September 18, 2011

‘We just had a little artistic difference,’ says Roberto Alagna to Le Figaro, here.

And one of us had to go.

photo: AFP/Le Figaro

Let’s remember the impressively decisive Joseph Volpe at the Met who dismissed Alagna and Gheorghiu after “disagreements” over Traviata. Volpe’s autobiography has some very interesting things to say about this and other episodes involving the pair.

Tenor denies kicking conductor out of Paris

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