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Article: Tenor cries betrayal as Milan's La Scala dumps him
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- December 7, 2008
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Leave it to La Scala to generate as much drama offstage as on.
The famed opera house threw its understudy into one of the most high-profile nights in opera Sunday night, removing tenor Giuseppe Filianoti for the season-opening premiere of "Don Carlo" after he made some mistakes during a dress rehearsal this week.
American tenor Stuart Neill, who has mostly performed in second and third casts for most of his career, got the break of a lifetime while Filianoti complained that he had been "betrayed" by the opera house, "stabbed in the back at the last minute."
"La Scala wanted me to say I was sick. But I, Giuseppe Filianoti, am in perfect ...