{"id":2628,"date":"2009-12-19T16:19:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2022-09-29T10:03:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:03:16","slug":"is-carmen-masola-italys-susan-boyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/is-carmen-masola-italys-susan-boyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Carmen Masola Italy’s Susan Boyle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Is<\/a>The Italo incarnation of Simon Cowell’s “Got Talent” franchise debuted Dec. 12 on Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset web Canale 5 and quickly drew fire from TV critics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crix blasted it for blatantly aping “Britain’s Got Talent” by putting on a frumpy, middle-age singer in the style of Susan Boyle, the British show’s Scottish singing sensation-turned-pop-phenom.<\/p>\n

Carmen Masola, a decidedly non-photogenic former newsstand agent, competently belted out the “Casta Diva” aria from Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma,” leaving co-host Gerry Scotti teary-eyed.<\/p>\n

Masola, 38, who trained as an opera singer, says her career had been blocked because she was “too fat” and cited Boyle and her frump-to-fame rise as her role model.<\/p>\n

But Corriere della Sera columnist Aldo Grasso echoed many critics when he complained the talent show had “no experimentation, no research, no new ideas: They are just mechanically adapting this foreign format to an Italian context.”<\/p>\n

A local viewer who identified himself as Marco, lamented on TVblog.it that “the substantial difference between Susan Boyle and Carmen is that the first one can carry a tune.”<\/p>\n

Despite that, ratings for “Italy’s Got Talent” bow hummed. It scored a 26.6% average share to win the evening’s primetime crown, peaking at a 42% share while Masola was singing.<\/p>\n

And Masola, like Boyle, is also scoring plenty of traffic on YouTube.<\/p>\n[media id=60 width=610 height=340]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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