Why does La Cieca suspect that Angela Gheorghiu has, for the moment anyway, forgotten the denouement of Bizet’s opera?

“The problem is that Roberto can never accept that I want to perform with anyone else. I am like Carmen, you see, I need to be free to make my own decisions, and there are many tenors that I like to sing with – Jonas Kaufmann is one, Vittorio Grigolo another.”

L’evasiva continues her Rehabilitation Tour by charming the socks off Rupert Christiansen. [Telegraph]