Placido Domingo
Placido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil, known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, conductor and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, German, Spanish, English and Russian in the most prestigious opera houses in the world. Although primarily a lirico-spinto tenor for most of his career, especially popular for his Cavaradossi, Hoffmann, Don José, and Canio, he quickly moved into more dramatic roles, becoming the most...
ProfessionOpera Singer
Date of Birth21 January 1941
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This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
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Francesca's productions are always beautifully balanced between the intimacy of the characters and the sweep of the epic, and I think that she will use the symbols of America brilliantly.
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There are two big categories of people that do not go to the opera. Some who will never have the financial or cultural means of doing it.
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Maestro Behr was a dynamic conductor who worked so well with soloists, the chorus and the musicians of the orchestra, all of whom respected him greatly. He will be deeply missed.
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I want to do more commissions and the very important second and third productions of new works - giving them the life that will bring them into the standard repertoire.
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I really don't know how to do it -- a tour or a concert or if I just say, that's it, that's the last night.
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Becoming artistic director at L.A. Opera feels less like a major change in my life there than a kind of upgrading,
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The day is close that I quit singing,
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I loved working with Spiro because he has the totality of colors in his performing palette. He is a singer of wonderful imagination and a real professional.
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What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.
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I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
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I feel at home in an orchestral score.
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I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
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I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.