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Domingo Placido
tenore

By now, Plácido Domingo has sung 119 different roles, more than any other tenor in the annals of music. His repertoire spans the gamut from Mozart to Verdi, from Berlioz to Puccini, from Wagner to Ginastera. He sings in every important opera house in the world and has made well over 100 recordings of which 96 are full-length operas, often recording the same role more than once, and for which he has earned 9 Grammys and 2 Latin Grammys. He has made more than 50 videos and 3 theatrically released films, which are Zeffirelli's La Traviata and Otello, and Rosi's Carmen. His telecast of Tosca, from the authentic settings in Rome, was seen by more than one billion people in 117 different countries. When he opened the 1999-2000 Metropolitan Opera Season with Pagliacci, he sang his 18th opening night of a season and, as the New York Times reported on its front-page, therewith surpassed the old Caruso record of 17 opening nights. As a conductor, he has led opera performances in all the important theaters, from the Metropolitan to Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Wiener Staatsoper and has conducted purely symphonic concerts with such renowned orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, the London Symphony, the Berliner Philharmoniker, in addition to making recordings as a conductor. As an administrator, he was the music director of the Seville World's Fair and in this capacity invited the world's foremost orchestras and opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, to Seville. Since the 1996-97 Season, he has been Artistic Director of the Washington Opera (www.dc-opera.org) and as of the 2000-2001 Season he is, additionally, the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Opera (www.LosAngelesOpera.com) , having been one of its founders, and for a number of years also its Music Adviser and Prinicpal Guest Conductor.

Born in Madrid to parents who were Zarzuela performers, Plácido Domingo moved to Mexico at the age of eight. He went to the Mexico City Conservatory to study piano and conducting, but eventually was sidetracked into vocal training after his voice was discovered. He made his operatic debut at Monterrey as Alfredo in La Traviata, and then spent two and a half years with the Israel National Opera, singing 280 performances of 12 different roles. In 1966, he created the title role in the United States premiere of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at New York City Opera, while appearing in their standard repertory as well. His Metropolitan Opera debut came in 1968, as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur. He has subsequently appeared there in more than 400 performances of 42 different roles. He appears regularly at all major opera houses including Milan's La Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Opéra National de Paris, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals.

Domingo's recordings, whether complete operas, aria or duet albums or cross-over material, inevitably appear on the best-seller charts and at one time, not long ago, seven of his CD's appeared simultaneously on Billboard's top selling charts of classical and cross-over recordings.

His repertoire - 119 different roles, as mentioned earlier - includes almost all important roles in Italian and French operas. Being constantly challenged by new roles, his ever expanding foray into the German repertoire consists of Wagner's Parsifal, Lohengrin and Siegmund in Die Walküre, in addition to recorded performances of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tannhäuser and Der fliegende Holländer, along with performances of Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, Weber's Oberon and Beethoven's Fidelio. Within the past three years, he added to his stage performances his first role in Russian, German in Tchaikovsky's Pikovaya dama, the Spanish Opera Margarita la Tornera by Ruperto Chapi and Verdi's La Battaglia di Legnano and Wolf-Ferrari?s Sly. Unlike many of his colleagues, he is also interested in broadening his repertoire with new compositions, such as Ginastera's Don Rodrigo, Menotti's Goya and the world-premiere of Anton Garcia Abril's Divinas Palabras, which re-opened the refurbished Teatro Real in Madrid in October 1997. Also new for him, in his recorded repertoire are two Spanish operas, Breton's La Dolores and Albeniz's Merlin which both won a Latin Grammy.

He will continue to concertize in solo concerts and as part of 'The 3 Tenors'. And he will be again in the recording studio for further projects, while new releases of just finished projects, will be issued.

Domingo's interest in helping young singers has led to his yearly competition 'Operalia' (www.operalia.com) , which so far has taken place in Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, Bordeaux, Tokyo, Hamburg and Puerto Rico and for the first time, in the United States in Los Angeles in September 2000. It is the biggest competition on the international scene with annual prizes amounting to $180,000, pledged by philanthropist Alberto Vilar. 'Operalia' has launched many singers to international recognition, not only through its prizes. The 2002 'Operalia' competition will be held in Paris, France.

Plácido Domingo (www.placidodomingo.com) has raised millions of dollars through special benefit concerts in order to help such causes as the victims of the 1985 Mexican earthquake, AIDS and the victims of such other disasters as the Armenian earthquake and the mud-slides of Acapulco, etc. He is one of the most decorated and honored artists before the public today and the accolades most often associated with him are "King of Opera," which was originally the banner headline on the cover of Newsweek Magazine, and "a true renaissance man in music," which was first printed in Italy's newspaper Corriere della Sera.

 

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