That headline sounds like a bad children’s book.   And Alagna’s tantrum after getting booed in the opening minutes of Aida at La Scala is the kind of thing that you’d see in one.

Listen for yourself - it’s not a great ending to “Celeste Aida,” and it certainly doesn’t sound like the rest of the performance is going to be good.  Alagna has supertenor status in Europe, but that can’t shield him from a mediocre live performance in the land where opera was born.   And it looks like he won’t be going back to La Scala any time soon.

Alagna at his best are recordings like these:

Sacred Songs with a wonderful O Holy Night track (in french of course) and the obscure “La Procession” by Cesar Franck - a piece that is beautiful and quintessentially Catholic.

His opera arias CD is excellent too.