In our jobs, when we’re told to redo something, it usually means we’ve made a mistake. That’s not the case for Javier Camarena. Earlier this month at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the tenor had the chance to retake an aria during a performance of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale because the audience went bonkers after the first time he sang it.

For many decades, the Met followed a strict no-encores policy. Camarena, who turned 40 on Saturday, has sung three encores at the Met so far.

Source: Texas Public Radio