Editing Roberto Alagna (section)

==Early years==
Alagna was born in [[Clichy-sous-Bois]], outside the city of Paris, in 1963 to a family of [[Sicily|Sicilian]] immigrants. As a teenager, the young Alagna began busking and singing pop in Parisian [[cabaret]]s,<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/357549/Roberto-Alagna-I-want-to-sing-everything-but-there-is-no-time | title=Roberto Alagna: I want to sing everything but there is no time |newspaper=[[Daily Express]]|location=London| author=Clare Colvin | date=2012-11-11 | access-date=2015-07-06}}</ref> mostly for tips.<ref>{{Cite book
  | year = 1997|editor=Elisabeth A. Schick
  | title = Current Biography Yearbook|chapter=Roberto Alagna|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/lccn_824209389/page/6/mode/2up|chapter-url-access=registration|via=[[Internet Archive]]
  | pages = 7–10
  | publisher=[[H. W. Wilson Company]]
  }}
</ref> Influenced primarily by the films of [[Mario Lanza]] and learning from recordings of many historic tenors, he then switched to opera, but remained largely self-taught.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Matinee Idol
  | publisher=The Metropolitan Opera News
  | url = http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/interviews/detail.aspx?id=3110
  | access-date =3 July 2008}}{{dead link|date=January 2025}}
</ref><ref>{{cite magazine
  | last1 = Duffy
  | first1 = Martha
  | last2=Denbigh|first2=Dorrie
   | title = So Happy Together
  | pages = 83–84
  |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]| date = 29 April 1996
  | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984477-1,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080422063527/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984477-1,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 22 April 2008 | access-date =3 July 2008}}</ref> He was discovered by [[Gabriel Dussurget]], the co-founder of the [[Aix-en-Provence Festival]].<ref>[http://ruesdaix.ag13.pagesperso-orange.fr/html/DUSSURGET.html Aix-en-Provence Historical Society: Gabriel Dussurget]</ref> He had performed frequently with Romanian soprano [[Angela Gheorghiu]], whom he first met in 1992 and married in 1996, in concerts and opera productions until their eventual divorce in 2013.