LONDON: A little airborne moisture comes naturally with singing, but young American tenor Michael Fabiano says it doesn't faze him that the droplets he exhales Wednesday will be broadcast live and, for an opera first, in 3D. “Live performance is live performance and I think that people want to see that,” the 26-year-old New Jersey native told Reuters before he and English soprano co-star Claire Rutter take to the stage at the Coliseum in London for a 3D broadcast of the English National Opera production of Donizetti's dark and bloody “Lucrezia Borgia” (Sky Arts and selected cinemas). “I think everyone when they watch television wants to see moments when people are on the edge and how they handle it – are they sweating or not, if something goes astray do they correct it? That's live theatre, that's what these reality television shows are all about too, and so I think it's great.” Based on Victor Hugo's tale of incest, murder, poisonings and rape in the Renaissance Italian Borgia family, the English-language ENO production of Donizetti's darkest opera is the first opera directed by filmmaker Mike Figgis.
