Angela Gheorghiu was poisoned?

 
Yes, remarkably, that's the excuse she gave the Met on withdrawing from Roméo et Juliette recently. So says Peter Gelb, no less. It came, unimaginatively, just "one day after marking her way through Juliette’s “poison” aria during a rehearsal".

Now who would want to do a thing like that?

Comments

[John]

Garlic?

[amac]

hmm .. maybe she bit her own tongue.

OMG I can't believe I said that !

[Chris]

Oh, I think there would be a long line!

[Manou]

Who could have sent the bunch of violets?

[Michael]

Is she still talking about when she was in Adriana Lecouvreur at the ROH a few months ago?

[Deb]

The tone of that Peter Gelb article is truly bizarre - preemptively defensive about Conte D'Ory and Walkure, and effasively addressing points which "some people" have raised...

which critic / criticism is he answering? And why now?

And what is his obsession with the Juliet 'poison' aria? which, if he's watched his opera at all he should know is not actually poison but a sleeping draught which mimics death. This is how she is able to WAKE UP in the last scene...!

[Mabel Cole]

I went to see her perform in Faust a couple of months ago at the ROH and someone walked out on stage and announced that Angela would not be performing this evening because of food poisoning. Is this her standard excuse? She seems to use this excuse in all rhe major Opera houses. A lot of people BOOED her. We had an amazing soprano tale her place Malin Bystrom. Bravissima!!!