Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House, Roberto Alagna has just finished with one of his many extemporare appearances: signing DVDs of Carmen in the Met Opera Shop. It’s mid-afternoon, and the remarkable singer gives this reporter a moment of his time.  We’ve included his lyric pattern of speech, because in English, it flows more so with the original wording and phraseology.

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