| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 29-Sep-2012 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion | Domingo's latest turn as baritone proves triumphant for LA Opera and Verdi |
 Almost any singer with Plácido Domingo’s résumé would be happily retired from the stage at age 71, but Domingo is obviously not any singer. With over 140 roles performed, the Spanish tenor’s legacy is unparalleled, and that legacy is still growing. Domingo’s addition of the baritone role Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s I due Foscari will undoubtedly cause cynics to roll their eyes. Hopefully there were some in the audience for this performance, as their skepticism proved to be unwarranted.Read full review... | |
| 27-Oct-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | The Royal Opera House celebrate Placido Domingo's forty years of Covent Garden performances |
 ASHMORE.jpg) In 1971, the thirty year-old Placido Domingo made his Covent Garden début as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca and in the intervening forty years, he has given two hundred and thirty performances in more than twenty-five roles for Royal Opera House audiences.Read full review... | |
| 20-Sep-2011 Kennedy Center: Opera House | The Other Side of Tosca |
 Even though, unlike most American opera lovers, I am not a big fan of Puccini’s music, Tosca has a very special place in my heart. Set to the most heartbreaking and overwhelmingly beautiful music, this story of a classical love triangle ending in the three deaths never gets too old or too boring. Because over the years its catchy arias have earned the title of opera favorites, it comes as no surprise that we tend to have very specific and quite conservative expectations of every production of Tosca. We know exactly what we want to hear and how we want to hear it.
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| 17-May-2011 Kennedy Center: Opera House | Placido Domingo: A True Opera Visionary |
 Having marked his 15th anniversary as the WNO’s artistic director earlier this month, Placido Domingo makes his final appearance as the company leader in the role of Oreste in Emilio Sagi’s production of Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride.
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