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Alagnas go pfft?

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According to Opera Chic, the Alagnas will announce their plans to divorce tomorrow. (That is, they will make an announcement tomorrow; the actual proceedings are likely a little farther down the road.) You may remember that La Cieca hinted at this sad eventuality several months ago. [UPDATE: As noted in the comments below, Alagna is calling it a separation and "Angela ne veut pas entendre parler de divorce," which could mean a whole range of things.] Image based on a photo by Ken Howard, Metropolitan Opera.

43 comments

  • Harry says:

    Now Sanford (38#) By criticizing and calling someone’s selected comments at this Site ‘as vitriolic’ is like someone maintaining they are still a virgin: after having a multitude of husbands and a flock of kids, proving otherwise.
    You are then in fact,trying to cut the ground from under the Site. Promoting hypocrisy by using such approach. Wishing to deny this Site : its renowned notoriety, its reputation, its energy fuel for living. Just imagine this Site if it was ‘so proper’ in what it discusses : regarding opera???!!If you wish to be scalded in outrage: spilling your supper teacup and biscuit before bed, so be it!

    We all know Ruxton tried to do a romantic line with you, in the past on this Site.. A forlorn , long running serial : What a Girl Hopes to Marry’- and you did not take up her milk-sop offer. It is not something , understandably -one could hold, against you!

    Since Ruxton wants to be cutting, bitchy or allude to me whenever she can / or wish to rubbish anything I say: surely she becomes ‘fair game’. I accept the same rules of the Game. I was just having the privilege of stating what I know, what are real facts. Not hear say, nor some fanciful thoughts made up to impress others, here. If peole don’t like it….’stiff cheddar’!

    Have you ever sat in those (now $250!) ‘de luxe Premium seats’ at Sydney Opera? Want bum pressure sores in a half hour? This supposed building icon: that has a puny capacity of ….just 1100 seats !! It has no hope in hell, of ever breaking even in financial terms. Seen the tiny orchestra pit? Watched the scene shifters..yes human scene shifters move pathetic small sentry boxes into place to fill the stage for a ‘grand’ Aida. Experienced its ‘mono’ sound?

    Not Vitriol….just plain indelible facts.

  • Ruxton says:

    Harry- you poor ol thing. Little wonder you get so many things wrong when you can’t even recognise a joke between friends when you see it- Sweet Sanford lives in the USA and I live in Australia- hardly a starting point for a serious “romantic line”…another total miscall on your part. No wonder no one takes you seriously. That is the “indelible fact”.

  • Harry says:

    Ruxton Dear! (42#)A bigger indelible fact: WE ALL KNEW where two of you lived, long, long go when you tried instigating that ‘simpering love trifle’. God you take people for fools. That appears to be your attitudinal problem: (according to you!)”That everybody else is stupid’ .
    The Chardonnay (Sutherland) Set was always renowned for the clowns amongst its ranks. More ‘so very Sydney’!