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...With reporting by Giulia Alagna...
...With reporting by Giulia Alagna / Perugia...
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...First on the scene was the French-born Roberto Alagna, who had people talking about "the new Pavarotti" with his 1990 performance in La Traviata at Milan's La Scala. When, six years later, he married the sensational young Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, you could almost hear record company executives cheer. By Three Tenors standards, however, the couple's sales have disappointed. Alagna's label, EMI, is reluctant to disclose figures, but according to music retailer HMV, his best showing-an album of duets with Gheorghiu-sold no more than 70,000 copies in Britain. Critically overshadowed by his wife...
Several young singers have been touted as possible successors to the first two tenors, but so far they have had about as much luck as Joan Rivers had in giving Johnny Carson the push. Roberto Alagna, 34, was heavily promoted by EMI as "the tenor of our generation" (a not so subtle dig at the advanced ages of Pavarotti and Domingo), but he had a rocky Met debut three seasons ago and is looking increasingly like an also-ran. Andrea Bocelli, 40, the hugely popular blind Italian tenor, is unlikely to parlay the success of his best-selling CDs into...