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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Singing becomes a form of therapy.
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In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
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I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
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But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
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But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
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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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This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
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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.