Pursuits
Alagna Takes Center Stage With Belly Flops, Sicilian Song
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Even a dog can’t run away with the show when Roberto Alagna is on stage. As the sweetly silly farmhand in “L’Elisir d’Amore,” now at London’s Royal Opera House, the tenor hogs the limelight with his seductive voice and athletic belly flops.
Before the dress rehearsal is over, the fit singer tosses his shirt at a gaggle of happy peasant girls -- just one of the amusing moments in a production which features a running dog, a moped and a truck (and also soprano Aleksandra Kurzak).