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
concert last tour
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.
chorus conductor deeply dynamic musicians respected whom worked
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.
singing joking-around enough
But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
ambition demand financial
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
possibility
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
able today done
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.
orchestra minutes session
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
piano reduction score
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
careers expecting conducting
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
emotional voice worry
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
oxygen atmosphere theater
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
categories cultural financial means people
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.