After the final curtain fell, Gasol was whisked backstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, where he and Domingo embraced and chatted in their mother tongue for a few minutes, surrounded by a gaggle of flashing cameras and buzzing onlookers.
“I really enjoyed Plácido, above everything, which was what most motivated me to come see it, and it was a very high-quality thing,” Gasol said in an interview moments later, speaking in Spanish. “Not a lot of action, but very dramatic in a classical sense.”
via The Lakers’ Pau Gasol gets an opera assist from Plácido Domingo — latimes.com.
The Times actually talks about how Gasol didn’t follow opera until he came to LA. It specifically mentions that Memphis has an opera, but that Gasol wasn’t a regular.
What, Memphis’ opera is too good for you? You only care about it now that you’re in LA?
The nerve of some people…
/does not like opera
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Gasol was probably too busy trying his best to get the Grizzlies’ management even semi interested in building a winning franchise.
In LA, he can leave that work to the administration.