What is Roberto Alagna?
[[File:ALAGNA-24x30-2004b.jpg|thumb|right|Roberto Alagna in 2004]] '''Roberto Alagna''' <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/roberto-alagna-reborn-at-50-after-opera-saves-his-life-1.1252959|title=Roberto Alagna reborn at 50 after opera saves his life|website=gulfnews.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> (born near [[Paris]], 7 June 1963) is a [[France|French]] [[opera]]tic [[tenor]]. Alagna's family came from [[Sicily]]. He was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, [[Seine-Saint-Denis]], near [[Paris]], France in [[1963]]. When he was a teenager he started singing [[pop music]] in Paris [[cabaret]]s. Later he started to sing in operas. He won the [[Luciano Pavarotti]] Voice Competition. He started to sing professionally in [[1988]] singing the part of Alfredo Germont in [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s ''[[La Traviata]]'' with the [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera|Glyndebourne touring opera]] Soon he was being asked to sing all over the world in opera houses such as [[La Scala]], [[Royal Opera House|Covent Garden]] and the [[Metropolitan Opera]]. His performances of Romeo in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' by [[Charles Gounod]] at Covent Garden in 1994 made him a great international star. When he sang that role on 15 December 2007 at the Metropolitan Opera with [[Anna Netrebko]] as Juliet the performance was broadcast by the Met into 447 theaters worldwide in high definition and seen by about 97,000 people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/0459517d-082f-4983-b7eb-5680d3913cb4|title=Roberto Alagna - Concerts, Biography & News - BBC Music|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> ==Personal life== Alagna's first wife, Florence Lancien, died of a brain tumor in 1994; they had one daughter, Ornella, who was born in 1992. In 1996 he married the [[Romania]]n [[soprano]] [[Angela Gheorghiu]]. They often performed together in operas. However, they separated in 2009. ==Discography== ;Studio albums * ''Airs & Duos'' (1996) * ''Massenet: Werther'' (1999) * ''Berlioz'' (2003) * ''Tenor!'' (