The opera star who used his phone on stage

Graham Spicer shares the full story of how (and why) the ice-cool Rene Pape whipped his iPhone out in the middle of last night's La Scala recital.

Comments

[Alexander]

Apple should pay him for that I think ;) If Renée is a naughty girl ( see Opera Chic story on her peek-a-bewb game) Rene is a naughty boy with his Iphone ...

[Manou]

When I got my first iPhone, I was told to think of it not as a phone, but as a small computer. Would we have minded if Pape had turned up with the libretto on an iPad instead of a bit of paper? This is just neater, smaller and completely practical.

The only problem that might have arisen would be someone telephoning Pape just at that very moment.

It's the 21st century, folks!

[waltraud becker]

Helmut Deutsch an Jonas Kaufmann used an iPad in California for the x. encore last year.

[John]

I'd find this a lot more endearing if his stage manner were less misanthropic!

[Oroveso]

Rene Pape's voice is "enormous"?