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Roberto Alagna
“Je ne suis pas le fruit du hasard”
Autobiography
Editions Grasset 2007-03-04
ISBN 978-2-246-68541-8

This is not the kind of biography or autobiography that delves deep. For most of his career Alagna was just another opera tenor until someone hit on the idea (maybe even the tenor himself) to record an album with Luis Mariano-songs. Alagna hit upon a wave of nostalgia though honesty compels us to admit that he sings a lot of these numbers as well as the late Basque tenor. Alagna appeared in a lot of TV-shows and became a household name. He showed a lot of humour on one of these occasions. Confronted with an example of outrageous prima donna behaviour, he correctly replied: Maria Callas. Given another even more blatant example of capricious soprano behaviour, he answered without a blink of an eye: my wife. That is the way to get attention and thus the inevitable happened: a book of memoirs by the star (told to whatever ghost he used as in France it is not common to name these people by name). Anyway the tenor’s life story is told and it is to

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Roberto Alagna - The Story of a Tenor . . .

The career of Alagna could well be made into a novel. He was born of Sicilian parents settled in the Parisian suburbs. In the family, everybody sang, and he was not (was he told) the most talented: he was sometimes told to be quiet when his uncle with the sunny voice sang. But he had a calling. He honed his vocal technique listening to the recordings of the great tenors of the past, and following the guidance of an old master, Rafael Ruiz. For years, he spent his nights singing old tunes and playing the guitar in the cabarets. But deep inside, he was fond of opera, and his idol was Pavarotti. So when the tenorissimo came to Paris to sign autographs in a department store, young Alagna sneaked through the crowd, managed to approach him and tell him a few words. The right words undoubtedly, as he was then invited to audition by the maestro. He went there and earned a ticket to the finale of the Pavarotti Competition in Philadelphia – which he won. This was 1988; he was twenty-four years old.

Alagna’s voice was then bright and radiant. I

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Roberto Alagna

tenor

June 7, 1963 - Clichy-sous-Bois, France

Jean-Marc Lubrano

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Roberto Alagna was born in the suburbs of Paris, into a Sicilian family where everyone sang (and Roberto was told that his voice wasn't the best in the family...!) He sharpened his vocal technique listening to the great early tenors, and was guided by the advice of an old master, Rafael Ruiz. For years, every evening, Roberto went out to sing in cabarets, accompanying himself on the guitar. But opera was his secret passion, and his idol was Pavarotti: in 1988 Roberto Alagna won First Prize in the Pavarotti Competition. His voice was radiant and luminescent, a voice of which every Italian opera-singer dreamed. Glyndebourne wanted him as Alfredo in La Traviata. Afterwards came Monte Carlo and, very soon, La Scala. In only a few years, the greatest international venues opened their doors to him, from New York to Vienna and London; the greatest conductors were honoured to take up the baton for his performances, and each appearance by Alagna led to an ovation.

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