{"id":130867,"date":"2011-09-29T12:41:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=130867"},"modified":"2011-09-29T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T08:17:28","slug":"tenor-attacked-with-armenian-genocide-questions-at-yerevan-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/29\/tenor-attacked-with-armenian-genocide-questions-at-yerevan-press-conference.html","title":{"rendered":"Tenor Attacked with Armenian Genocide Questions at Yerevan Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro Safina&#8217;s Yerevan concert will take place today at the Armenian National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Alexander Spendiaryan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to say whether Armenian audiences are familiar with the Italian operatic tenor&#8217;s works, but judging from yesterday&#8217;s press conference, where Armenian journalists directed mainly tabloid-worthy questions to the singer, it&#8217;s understandable that, at least among journalists, few are familiar with his art, reports local daily Joghovurd (&#8220;People&#8221; or &#8220;Nation&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Many people think that a more-or-less famous artist who comes to Armenia is obliged to know a lot about this country and so it is that journalists asked about the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, the display of such provincialism ended rather pleasantly \u2014 the tenor simply terminated the press conference and walked away, meanwhile saying, &#8220;Am I to blame that I have come to Armenia?&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The display of such provincialism ended rather pleasantly with Italian tenor Alessandro Safina terminating the press conference and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32502,65942,10372,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}