[Clive]
Talking of super-egos, this clip of the temperamental Roberto Alagna walking out of La Scala’s production of Aida has just come my way. (It’s almost as funny, in its way, as some of Andrew’s all-time bad pop videos.) As you may know, a replacement had to make an abrupt entrance from the wings after the star was upset at being booed. What’s Italian for "Who’s that strange guy in the beard? Is he a stalker?"
Alagna’s sense of proportion was obviously still out to lunch when he spoke to the press:
The audience is intimidating. It reminds me of the fear of expressing oneself freely that existed in the Communist bloc.
The Dish 