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Placido Domingo spendet für Halleiner Orgel - oesterreich.ORF.at
That's the organ in the church where Franz Gruber first performed Stille Nacht (Silent night)...because the organ was broken!
Plácido Domingo: "Si mi nieto fuera 'heavy' le enseñaría mi música más que a nadie" - 20minutos.es
Interview
Boccanegra in Berlin, (Staatsoper)
(Not sure if the link will work, but it's a 13 Nov post on Opera-L by David Haslett)
So to Domingo - yes, some initial shock at the sound of the voice on the first entry but I adjusted. In this small house there was strong projection in all ranges. He coloured the voice to suggest age - to be honest, it was such a compelling performance in every way that I stopped analysing and accepted it on his terms. It is no use pretending that it is a 'Verdi baritone" sound - it is not and cannot be; but it convinced me more, for all that, than recent efforts by Hampson and Hvorostovsky. He was on amazing form. It insults him to say - oh, amazing for a 68 year old. This was a thrilling performance and wholly convincing. The sound was burnished bronze, heroic. The role appears to suit him extraordinarily well and I must say it was no stranger to me than hearing a mezzo as the Marschallin or Leonora in Fidelio - ultimately it is about convincing one that it is right and Domingo certainly did that. I will treasure this performance.
Intermezzo: Placido mixes it in Berlin
Pictures of Plácido at the MTV awards on Thursday night
Wenn Künstler in Gesten erstarren
According to this, Plácido was in the audience last for 'Fall of the House of Usher' in Potsdam
(contrary to what you might think, this opera is not about the UK MPs' expenses scandal...!)
Placido Domingo begeistert in der Philharmonie
Die Walkure Act 1 in concert on Wednesday night in Berlin. short article but unequivocal in praise!
National radio broadcast of NEA's opera awards will elude L.A. | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
"Placido Domingo, general director of both the Los Angeles Opera and the Washington National Opera, will offer greetings via video"
Is there something about that sentence that strikes you as just wrong ;-)
Opera Review - Domingo Excels as Boccanegra - NYTimes.com
Mr. Domingo’s burnished tone was deeply moving when urging peace and love. In sterling form throughout, he brought a deft touch to the final word, “figlia” (daughter), of the recognition duet with Amelia, a problematic moment for baritones.
Performance notes
Plácido Domingo’s switch from tenor to baritone will confirm him as the most ambitious performer of his generation
The full article is only available online to subscribers. I shall hunt out a print copy on the mean streets of Westminster
Berliners Boo Director, Cheer Domingo as Baritone: Review - Bloomberg.com
Domingo exuded alpha- animal charisma throughout. This is no tectonic shift in voice type or technical miracle. Domingo simply sang as he always does, with crackling presence, musical intelligence, fastidious attention to detail, and bold imagination. The low notes are not always the loudest, but the high notes are effortless, and everything in between is utterly compelling.
*Plácido Domingo: My Greatest Roles
This time is probably the last television look at his active career and takes the form of a retrospective of his greatest work, building up a picture of this unique man throughout his extraordinary career.
Available 17 November in USA. According to Amazon UK it's released on 19 January
Plácido Domingo's 'Greatest Roles' coming to DVD | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
Featuring the 1992 'on location' Tosca on DVD!!!!, and the ROH Manon Lescaut and Fanciulla, which I already have - but with brand-new interviews.
Incidentally, November's 'Opera' carries an advert for the Valencia Cyrano de Bergerac DVD on Naxos
Placido Domingo: My Greatest Roles on DVD Available on November 17th - PR.com
Placido Domingo is the most important person alive in opera. Greatest of the stage tenors still performing, experienced conductor, intendant of not one but two U.S. opera houses - these facts alone hardly begin to delineate the man. Major sponsorship flocks to him, his influence is felt in opera houses worldwide, and his support can be the making of a singer’s career. But only once every ten years he allows the television cameras in. This time, probably the last television look at his active career, it takes the form of a retrospective of his greatest work, building up a picture of this unique man throughout his extraordinary career.
Placido pays it forward
"He won't be spending the whole $1m award on crisps"
"The gold-plated kebab he's keeping for a door stop though."
The photos illustrate that the beard is back (nearly). Good!
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