I actually like the reaction, because it shows that opera singers are athletes. 

The song wasn’t written as a duet, so obviously they’d have to discuss how to turn it into one. I’ve heard the ending of that song done both ways: sustained & cut off (Pavarotti, for example, sang it both ways.). But cutting off a note that short THAT obviously is akin to Wes Welker dropping that ball in the Super Bowl. It’s not that the taller guy couldn’t hold the note; it’s more likely that EITHER the two failed to discuss the last note, or – I think a lot more likely – they did discuss it but the taller guy’s brain failed him by losing touch with the plan & getting lost in a persistent memory of a past performance – maybe not even of this song – where that note was deliberately cut off. 

I like that when Mediaite wrote up the story, they spelled it ‘sh*t’, thereby preventing me from going blind.

My buddy did a similar thing, he wrote down the qualities he wanted in a woman. It was a rather short list…she likes to make love. He says he’s still looking for that woman.