{"id":14693,"date":"2024-09-16T12:49:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2024-09-16T12:49:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:49:39","slug":"soprano-angela-gheorghiu-interrupts-colleagues-encore-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/09\/16\/soprano-angela-gheorghiu-interrupts-colleagues-encore-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Soprano Angela Gheorghiu Interrupts Colleague\u2019s Encore in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Angela Gheorghiu (Photo: Ken Howard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During a Tosca performance in Seoul, the soprano Angela Gheorghiu interrupted her colleague\u2019s encore of his aria. The interruption drew ire from the opera\u2019s audience.<\/p>\n

Driving the news:<\/strong> On September 8th, the soprano Angela Gheorghiu interrupted tenor Alfred Kim\u2019s encore of his aria during Puccini\u2019s Tosca with the Seoul Metropolitan Opera. After the aria, \u201cE lucevan le stelle,\u201d Kim received such thunderous applause that conductor Jee Joong-Bae began a reprise. Gheorghiu stormed on stage, telling the audience: \u201cExcuse me. It\u2019s a performance. It\u2019s not a recital. Respect me<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jee attempted to ignore Gheorghiu, but her gestures were so persistent he eventually stopped the orchestra and the encore, continuing the opera as planned. Gheorghiu\u2019s behaviour prompted booing during her curtain call. Many fans asked for refunds and condemned Gheorghiu as disrespectful to Korean audiences.<\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/strong> This isn\u2019t the first time Angela Gheorghiu has reacted poorly to an encore. In 2018, she refused to re-enter the stage at the Vienna State Opera during a performance of Tosca after Jonas Kaufmann performed an encore. This prompted Kaufmann to sing to the audience, \u201cnon abbiamo un soprano\u2026<\/a>\u201d before apologizing to the audience in German.<\/p>\n

Gheorghiu\u2019s management stated that Gheorghiu believes encores disrupt the integrity of a performance.<\/a> They claim Jee Joong-Bae had assured Gheorghiu there would be no encores during Tosca, although apparently no formal agreement was made.<\/p>\n

The tenor Alfred Kim has made headlines before, but for violent behaviour towards a woman<\/a>. Gheorghiu famously accused her former husband Roberto Alagna of domestic violence.<\/a> Who knows, maybe she didn\u2019t like performing with Kim to begin with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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