Angela Gheorghiu was fired from Chicago Lyric Opera for missing rehearsals. Why was she away? It was a stand-by-your-man thing. Husband Roberto Alagna was singing at the Met Opera. “I asked Lyric Opera to let me go to New York for two days to be with him and they said ‘no.'” She went anyway because, she claims, “I needed to be by Roberto’s side at this very important moment.”