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Uh oh:

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.

Poor fella, Roberto...He said that because he was in such shock to getting booed, that his voice just wouldn't work anymore, and he had to leave in order to preserve it:

When his rendition of the aria Celeste Aida was greeted by boos and whistles, Alagna stopped singing and walked off stage, leaving his partner in the duet stranded.

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."

I'd say that Mr. Alagna's career has suddenly taken a turn for the worse...He wasn't asked back to sing in the next performance.

Those Italians can be brutal.

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