In late January, the Metropolitan Opera faced a crisis. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann was sick and had to withdraw from a new production of Giacomo Puccini's "Manon Lescaut"Â which was scheduled to open in just 16 days. The role was offered to star tenor Roberto Alagna, who had never sung the role. He accepted the challenge, and the production opened on February 12th. In his review in The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini w…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:00PM on February 19, 2016