Booed tenor quits La Scala's Aida

Top tenor Roberto Alagna has stunned opera-goers at La Scala in Milan by storming off stage in the middle of a performance after he was booed.

The Franco-Italian singer, who was playing a leading role in Verdi's Aida, walked off minutes into the second night of the opera house's new season.

His understudy rushed on wearing jeans and carried on Sunday's performance.

BBC:

Understudy Antonello Palombi hurried on a few moments later, dressed in jeans rather than a costume and without a proper vocal warm-up, to carry on the show.

"They literally took me and threw me on stage," he told Italian news agency Ansa after the show. "It was a good test and I passed it."