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José Plácido Domingo Embil KBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born 21 January 1941), better known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range. He is considered to be a talented and hard-working musician: in March 2008, he debuted in his 128th opera role, giving Domingo more roles than any other tenor. He is also admired for his acting ability, his musicality and musical intellect, and the number and variety of opera roles that he has mastered.






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José Plácido Domingo Embil KBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born 21 January 1941), better known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range. He is considered to be a talented and hard-working musician: in March 2008, he debuted in his 128th opera role, giving Domingo more roles than any other tenor. He is also admired for his acting ability, his musicality and musical intellect, and the number and variety of opera roles that he has mastered. In addition to his singing roles, he has also taken on conducting
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
 opera and concert performances, as well as serving as the General Director of the Washington National Opera
Washington National Opera

The Washington National Opera is a world-class opera company in Washington, D.C., USA. Formerly the Washington Opera, the company received Congressional designation as the National Opera Company in 2000....
 in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 and the Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles Opera

The Los Angeles Opera is an opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center....
 in California. His contracts in both Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
 and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 have been extended through the 2010–2011 season.

Biography and career


Early years

Plácido Domingo was born near the Barrio de Salamanca section of Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
, Spain, and moved to Mexico with his family, who ran a zarzuela
Zarzuela

Zarzuela , is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance....
 company. He studied piano at first privately and later at the National Conservatory of Music
National Conservatory of Music (Mexico)

The National Conservatoire of Music was founded in Mexico City, on July 1, 1866 by the priest, teacher and choir Agust?n Caballero, with the support of the Mexican Philharmonic Society and the emperor Maximilian I of Mexico....
 in Mexico City.

In 1957, Domingo made his first professional appearance performing with his mother in a concert at Mérida, Yucatán
Mérida, Yucatán

M?rida is the capital and largest city of the States of Mexico of Yucat?n and the Yucat?n Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about 35 km from the Gulf of Mexico coast, at ....
. He made his opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 debut performing in Manuel Fernández Caballero's zarzuela, Gigantes y cabezudos, singing a baritone role. At that time, he was working with his parents' zarzuela company, taking parts in baritone
Baritone

Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
 roles and as an accompanist for other singers. Among his first performances was a minor role in the first Mexican production of My Fair Lady where he was also the assistant conductor and assistant coach. The company made 185 performances which included a production of Lehár
Franz Lehár

Franz Leh?r , known in Hungarian as Leh?r Ferenc, was an Austrian composer of Hungarian people descent, mainly known for his operettas....
's The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary composer Franz Leh?r. The Librettos, Viktor L?on and Leo Stein , based the story — concerning a rich widow, Hanna Glawari, and her attempt to find a husband ? on an 1861 comedy play, L'attach? d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac....
 where he performed as either Camille or Danilo.

In 1959, Domingo auditioned for the Mexico National Opera as a baritone but was then asked to sight-read some arias and lines in the tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
 range. Finally he was accepted in the National Opera as a tenor comprimario and as a tutor for other singers. He provided backup vocals for Los Black Jeans in 1958, a rock-and-roll band lead by César Costa
César Costa

C?sar Costa is a Mexico actor and rock-and-roll singer.Costa was born in Condesa of the Mexican capital. He studied elementary and Junior Highschool at the Alexander von Humbolt schule Mexico and Law school at the Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico ....
. He learned piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 and conducting
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
, but made his stage debut acting in a minor role in 1959 (12 May) at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara as Pascual in Marina. It was followed by Borsa in Rigoletto
Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian language libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo....
 (with Cornell MacNeil
Cornell MacNeil

Cornell MacNeil is an American operatic baritone known for his voice and his phenomenal career with the Metropolitan Opera, which spanned 642 performances in twenty-six roles....
 and Norman Treigle
Norman Treigle

Norman Treigle was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the fifth and final child of a poor carpenter and his wife. Following his 1946 marriage to the former Loraine Siegel, the bass-baritone began vocal studies with the contralto Elisabeth Wood....
 also in the cast), Padre Confessor (Dialogues of the Carmelites
Dialogues of the Carmelites

Dialogues of the Carmelites , is an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc. In 1953, M. Valcarenghi approached Poulenc to commission a ballet for La Scala in Milan; when Poulenc found the proposed subject uninspiring, Valcarenghi suggested instead the screenplay by Georges Bernanos, based on the novella Die Letzte am Schafott , by Ge...
) and others.

In addition, he played piano for a ballet company to supplement his income. Domingo also played piano for a program on Mexico cultural television which was newly founded at that time. The program consisted of excerpts from zarzuelas, operettas, operas, and musical comedies. He acted in a few small parts while at the theater in such plays by Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca

Federico Garc?a Lorca was a Spain poet, dramatist and theatre director. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was abducted and murdered by persons likely affiliated with the Nationalist cause at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War....
, Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was an Italy dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934....
, and Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian Short story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature....
.

1960s-1980s

In 1961, he made his operatic debut in a leading role as Alfredo in La traviata
La traviata

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848....
 at Monterrey
Monterrey

Monterrey is the capital city of the northeastern Mexico state of Nuevo Le?n and a Monterrey of the same name. Also known as "Sultana del Norte" , Monterrey is an important industrial and business center....
 and later in the same year, his debut in the United States with the Dallas Civic Opera
Dallas Opera

The Dallas Opera is an opera company located in Dallas, Texas, Texas . The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Laurence Kelly and Nicol? Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as administrator, the second as artistic director....
 where he played the role of Arturo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor....
 opposite Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, Order of Merit, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an Australian voice type soprano noted for her contribution in the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire in the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s....
 as the title role. In 1962, he returned to Texas to play the role of Edgardo in the same opera with Lily Pons
Lily Pons

Lily Pons was a France-United States coloratura soprano....
 at the Fort Worth Opera. At the end of 1962, he signed a six month contract with the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
 but later extended the contract and stay for two and a half years, singing 280 performances of 12 different roles.

In June 1965, after finishing his contract with Israel National Opera, Domingo went for an audition at the New York City Opera
New York City Opera

The New York City Opera was founded in 1943 with the aim of an opera company that would be financially accessible to a wide audience, innovative in its choice of repertory, and a home for United States singers and composers....
 and scheduled to make his New York debut as Don Jose in Bizet
Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
's Carmen
Carmen

Carmen is a French op?ra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Hal?vy, based on the Carmen by Prosper M?rim?e, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem "The Gypsies" by Pushkin....
 but his debut came earlier when he was offered to fill in for an ailing tenor at the last minute in Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
's Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
. On 17 June 1965, Domingo made his New York debut as B. F. Pinkerton at the New York City Opera. In February 1966, he sang the title role in the U.S. premiere of Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentina composer of European classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers....
's Don Rodrigo
Don Rodrigo

Don Rodrigo is an opera in three acts by Alberto Ginastera, the composer's first opera, to an original Spain libretto by Alejandro Casona. Ginastera composed the opera on commission from the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina....
 at the New York City Opera
New York City Opera

The New York City Opera was founded in 1943 with the aim of an opera company that would be financially accessible to a wide audience, innovative in its choice of repertory, and a home for United States singers and composers....
, with much acclaim. The performance also marked the opening of the City Opera's new home at Lincoln Center.

He official debut at the Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
 in New York occurred on 28 September 1968 when he substituted for Franco Corelli
Franco Corelli

Franco Corelli was an Italian tenor active in opera from 1951 to 1976. Associated in particular with the big spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated internationally for his handsome stage presence and thrilling upper register....
, in Cilea
Francesco Cilea

Francesco Cilea was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur....
's Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the Play by Eug?ne Scribe and Ernest Legouv?....
 singing with Renata Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi

Renata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano, popular in the post-World War II period. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time, she primarily focused on the verismo roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires....
. Before Adriana Lecouvreur, he had sung in performances by the Metropolitan Opera at Lewisohn Stadium of Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni

Pietro Mascagni was an Italy composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and singlehandedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music....
's Cavalleria Rusticana
Cavalleria rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga based on his short story....
 and Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer. His opera Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the operatic repertory, appearing as number 14 on Opera America's 2007 list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America....
's Pagliacci
Pagliacci

Pagliacci is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe....
 in 1966. Since then, he has opened the season at the Metropolitan Opera 21 times, surpassing the previous record of Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso was an italians tenor. Caruso was also one of the most significant and renowned singers in any genre in both the 19th and 20th Centuries, and one of the most important pioneers of recorded music....
 by four. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera
Vienna State Opera

The Vienna State Opera is an opera house - and opera company - with a history dating back to the mid 19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria....
 in 1967, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1952, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicol? Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma ....
 in 1968, at both La Scala
La Scala

The Teatro alla Scala , in Milan, Italy, is one of the world's most famous opera houses. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778, under the name Nuovo Regio Ducal Teatro alla Scala with Antonio Salieri Europa riconosciuta....
 and San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera is the second largest opera company in North America after the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola ....
 in 1969, and at Covent Garden
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
 in 1971, and has now sung at practically every other important opera house
Opera house

An opera house is a theater building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building....
 and festival worldwide. In 1971, he played the role Mario Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
 at the Metropolitan Opera and continued with the same role for many times. He has played this role more than any other tenor.

Throughout the years, Domingo has also turned his hand to conducting
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
 opera (as early as La traviata
La traviata

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848....
 on 7 October 1973, at New York City Opera
New York City Opera

The New York City Opera was founded in 1943 with the aim of an opera company that would be financially accessible to a wide audience, innovative in its choice of repertory, and a home for United States singers and composers....
) as well as, occasionally, symphonic orchestras. In 1981 Domingo gained considerable recognition outside of the opera world when he recorded the song "Perhaps Love" as a duet with the late American country
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
/folk music
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 singer John Denver
John Denver

John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
. In 1987, he and Denver joined Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews

Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
 for an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
 winning holiday television special, The Sound of Christmas, filmed in Salzburg
Salzburg

is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria and the capital city of the states of Austria of Salzburg ....
, Austria.

On 19 September 1985, the biggest earthquake in Mexico's history
1985 Mexico City earthquake

The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck Mexico on 19 September 1985 at 7:19 local time, causing the deaths of about 10,000 people and serious damage in the Mexico City....
 devastated the whole Mexican capital. Domingo's aunt, uncle, his nephew and his nephew's young son were killed in the collapse of the Nuevo León apartment block in the Tlatelolco
Tlatelolco

Tlatelolco may refer to:*Tlatelolco , a pre-Columbian Aztec citystate.*Tlatelolco , an area within modern Mexico City.*Tlatelolco , an archaeological site in Mexico City....
 housing complex. Domingo himself labored to rescue survivors. During the next year, he did benefit concert
Benefit concert

A benefit concert is a concert, show or gala featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable organization purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis....
s for the victims and released an album of one of the events.

1990s - present

Throughout 1990s until today, Domingo continued performing in many of the same but also new operas, among them Wagner
Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
's Parsifal
Parsifal

Parsifal is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the medieval Epic poetry of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail....
 and Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
's Idomeneo
Idomeneo

Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante is an Italian language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, which had been set to music by Andr? Campra as Idom?n?e in 1712....
 as the title role, Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia as Figaro, Wagner's Die Walküre
Die Walküre

Die Walk?re is the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It is the source of the famous piece Ride of the Valkyries....
 as Siegmund, Lehár
Franz Lehár

Franz Leh?r , known in Hungarian as Leh?r Ferenc, was an Austrian composer of Hungarian people descent, mainly known for his operettas....
's The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary composer Franz Leh?r. The Librettos, Viktor L?on and Leo Stein , based the story — concerning a rich widow, Hanna Glawari, and her attempt to find a husband ? on an 1861 comedy play, L'attach? d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac....
 as Danilo and Alfano
Franco Alfano

Franco Alfano was an Italy composer and piano. Though today best known for completing Giacomo Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot in 1926, he had considerable success with his own works during his lifetime....
's Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a four-act opera with music by Franco Alfano, and libretto by Henri Cain, based on Edmond Rostand's drama Cyrano de Bergerac ....
 as Cyrano. Between the middle of 1990 to early in 2008 only, he has added 38 new roles to his repertoire, covering opera in six different languages (English, Italian, French, German, Russian and Spanish). The latest was the Italian opera by George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel was an England Baroque music composer of Germany birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grosso. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England....
, Tamerlano
Tamerlano

Tamerlano is an opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italy text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's Tamerlano together with another libretto entitled Bajazet after Nicolas Pradon's Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet....
.

Also see: Domingo's complete repertoire
Plácido Domingo

Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
.

Giving him even greater international recognition outside of the world of opera, he participated in The Three Tenors
The Three Tenors

The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish vocalists Pl?cido Domingo and Jos? Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti who sang as a consort under this banner during the 1990s and early 2000s....
 concert at the opening of the 1990 World Cup
1990 FIFA World Cup

The 1990 FIFA World Cup, the 14th staging of the World Cup, was held in Italy from 8 June to 8 July. Italy was chosen as FIFA World Cup hosts#1990 FIFA World Cup by FIFA on 19 May 1984, making it the second country to host the event twice....
 in Rome with José Carreras
José Carreras

Josep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as Jos? Carreras, is a Spain Catalonia tenor. One of the most prominent opera singers of his generation, and particularly eminent in the operas of Verdi and Puccini, his career has encompassed over 60 roles on stage and in the recording studio....
 and Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti Italian orders of merit was an Italian opera tenor, who also crossed over into popular music. He was the most commercially successful tenor of all....
. The event was originally conceived to raise money for the José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation and was later repeated a number of times, including at the three subsequent World Cup finals (1994
1994 FIFA World Cup

The 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 15th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in the United States from 17 June to 17 July 1994. The United States was chosen as FIFA World Cup hosts#1994 FIFA World Cup by FIFA in July 1988....
 in Los Angeles, 1998
1998 FIFA World Cup

The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 16th FIFA World Cup, was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. France was chosen as FIFA World Cup hosts#1998 FIFA World Cup by FIFA on 1 July 1992....
 in Paris, and 2002
2002 FIFA World Cup

The 2002 FIFA World Cup, the 17th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in South Korea and Japan from 31 May to 30 June. The two countries were chosen as FIFA World Cup hosts#2002 FIFA World Cup by FIFA in May 1996 and was the first tournament in its history to be hosted by two countries....
 in Yokohama
Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kanto region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area....
). Alone, Domingo again made an appearance at the final of the 2006 World Cup
2006 FIFA World Cup

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th instance of the FIFA World Cup, the Anniversary#Latin-derived numerical names international football world championship tournament....
 in Berlin, along with rising stars Anna Netrebko
Anna Netrebko

Anna Yur?yevna Netrebko born in Krasnodar, Russia, is a Russian-Austrian operatic soprano who currently resides in Vienna....
 and Rolando Villazón
Rolando Villazón

Emilio Rolando Villaz?n Maule?n is a Mexico tenor. He is currently in international demand as an opera singer, and also maintains an active recording career....
. On 24 August 2008, Domingo performed a duet with Song Zuying
Song Zuying

Song Zuying is an ethnic Miao people PRC singer....
, singing Ài de Huoyàn (The Flame of Love) at the 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony
2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony

The 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest. It was directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and began at 8:00 pm China standard time on August 24, 2008....
 in Beijing.

He holds a world record for the longest ovation on the operatic stage with 101 curtain calls and 80 minutes non-stop applause after performing Otello
Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare's Play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest tragedy....
, Verdi's operatic version of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
's Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
, as the Moor of Venice in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 on 30 June 1991. In 2006, Domingo recorded an album Italia Ti amo, dedicated himself to Neapolitan
Neapolitan

Neapolitan may refer to:* Neapolitan--of, or pertaining to the city of Naples, Italy and sometimes its wider Duchy of Naples or Province of Naples* Neapolitan language, a language of Naples and environs in southern Italy...
 and Italian songs, which include Stanislao Gastaldon's "Musica Prohibita" and the famous "Core N’Grato" by Salvatore Cardillo
Salvatore Cardillo

Salvatore Cardillo was the Italy songwriter whose richly scored sentimental Neapolitan language classic "Core 'ngrato" written in 1911 for Enrico Caruso, has remained a staple of the Italian tenor concert repertoire, having been recorded by Franco Corelli, Pl?cido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti....
 accompanied by Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Eugene Kohn.

Opera Honors on October 31, 2008 in Washington, DC.]] In what has been called his 'final career move', Plácido Domingo announced on 25 January 2007 that in 2009 he would take on one of Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic music composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century....
's most demanding baritone roles, the Doge of Genoa
Doge of Genoa

The Republic of Genoa was technically a communal republic in the early Middle Ages, but in actuality it was an oligarchy ruled by a small group of merchant families, from whom were selected the Doges of Genoa....
, Simon Boccanegra
Simon Boccanegra

Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the Play Sim?n Bocanegra by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez....
, in the opera of the same name. He would, however, continue to sing tenor roles beforehand and afterwards.

On 16-17 April 2008 he sang during the visit of the Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI is the List of popes and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and, as such, monarch of the Vatican City....
 at Nationals Park and at the Italian embassy in Washington DC.

From 1990 to 2008, Domingo has received many awards and honors for his effort in music, benefit concerts and charity. On 21 August 2007, in Mexico City, a two meters tall statue and weighs about 300 kg (660 lbs) was build in his honor. On 23 March 2008, the New Orleans City Council honors his contribution at the Gala Benefits Concert by naming the city theatre's stage, the "Plácido Domingo stage". In April 2008, he was voted as the greatest tenor in history in BBC Music Magazine
BBC music magazine

BBC Music Magazine is a magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by the BBC, devoted primarily to classical music, though with sections on jazz and world music....
 judged by 16 renowned opera critics.

On 15 March 2009, The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
 will pay tributes to Domingo's 40th anniversary with the company with the on-stage gala dinner at the Met’s 125th anniversary, after his debut in Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the Play by Eug?ne Scribe and Ernest Legouv?....
 as Maurizio opposite Renata Tebaldi on 28 September 1968

Family

He was born to Plácido Francisco Domingo Ferrer (8 March 1907 - 22 November 1987) and Pepita Embil Echaníz (28 February 1918 - 28 September 1994), two Spanish zarzuela
Zarzuela

Zarzuela , is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance....
 stars who nurtured his early musical abilities. Domingo's father was half Catalan
Catalan people

The Catalans are the people from Catalonia, an Autonomous Community of Spain, including people originating in that region but living elsewhere. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France ? known in Catalonia proper as Catalunya Nord , and in France as the Pays Catalan ? are often included in this definition....
 and half Aragonese
Aragonese people

The Aragonese are an ethnic group or nation living in the region of Aragon, between the center and the north-east of Spain. Their native Aragonese language, which might have been spoken in the whole of the Kingdom of Aragon in the Middle Ages, is nowadays a seriously endangered language, natively spoken only by a few thousands in some norther...
 while his mother was a Basque
Basque people

The Basques are a people who inhabit a region spanning over parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France.The name Basque derives from the ancient tribe of the Vascones, described by Ancient Greece historian Strabo as living south of the western Pyrenees and north of the Ebro River, in modern day Navarre and northern Aragon....
. His father was a violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist performing for opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 and zarzuela
Zarzuela

Zarzuela , is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance....
 orchestra. He was a baritone and actively taking roles in zarzuela. However his promising career as a baritone ended after he damaged his voice by singing with a cold. Domingo's mother was an established singer who made her zarzuela debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. She met her husband at age 21 while performing in Federico Moreno Torroba
Federico Moreno Torroba

Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spain composer, born in Madrid....
's Sor Navarra. In 1946 Moreno Torroba and Domingo's parents formed a zarzuela company and travelled frequently to Mexico. His parents later stayed permanently in Mexico and established their own zarzuela troupe, the Domingo-Embil Company. In addition to their son, they also have a daughter, Maria José Domingo de Fernandez .

On 29 August 1957 at age 16, Plácido Domingo married a fellow piano student, Ana María Guerra Cué (1938-2006) and his first son, José Plácido Domingo Guerra (Pepe) was born on 16 June 1958. However, the marriage didn't last long, the couple separated shortly thereafter. In 1 August 1962, Plácido Domingo married Marta Ornelas, a lyric soprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
 from Veracruz
Veracruz

Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave is one of the 31 states of Mexico that constitute the republic of Mexico....
, Mexico, whom he met during his conservatory days. In the same year, Marta had been voted "Mexican Singer of the Year" but she gave up her promising career to devote her time to her family. They have two sons, Plácido Francisco (Plácido Jr.) born on 21 October 1965 and Alvaro Maurizio born on 11 October 1968. After a period of time living in Israel, he and his family resided in Teaneck, New Jersey
Teaneck, New Jersey

Teaneck is a Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, and is a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 39,260....
. During vacations, he usually spends his time with family in their vacation home in Acapulco
Acapulco

Acapulco is a city and major port in the Political divisions of Mexico of Guerrero on the Pacific Ocean coast of Mexico, southwest from Mexico City....
, Mexico.

Recordings

He has made well over 100 recordings, most of which are full-length operas, often recording the same role more than once. Among these recordings is a boxed set of every tenor aria Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic music composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century....
 ever wrote, including several rarely-performed versions, in different languages from the original operas, which Verdi wrote for specific performances.

In August 2005, EMI Classics released a new studio recording of Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
's Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde

Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German language libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Stra?burg....
 in which Domingo sings the title role of Tristan. A review of this recording, headlined "Vocal perfections", that appeared in the 8 August 2005 issue of The Economist
The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international relations publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London....
 begins with the word "Monumental" and ends with the words, "a musical lyricism and a sexual passion that make the cost and the effort entirely worthwhile". It characterized his July 2005 performance of Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walküre
Die Walküre

Die Walk?re is the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It is the source of the famous piece Ride of the Valkyries....
 at Covent Garden as "unforgettable" and "luminous". The review also remarks that Domingo is still taking on roles that he has not previously performed.

New recordings that have been released in the first half of 2006 include studio recordings of Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
's Edgar
Edgar (opera)

Edgar is an operatic dramma lirico in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, freely based on the Play in verse La Coupe et les l?vres by Alfred de Musset....
, Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Albéniz

Isaac Manuel Francisco Alb?niz i Pascual was a Spain Catalonia pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music.=Life=...
's Pepita Jiménez
Pepita Jiménez

Pepita Jim?nez is a lyric comedy or comic opera with music written by the Spanish composer Isaac Alb?niz. The original opera was written in one act and used an English libretto by Alb?niz's patron and collaborator, the Englishman Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer, which is based on the novel of the same name by Juan Valera y Alcal?-...
, as well as a selection of Italian and Neapolitan songs
Canzone Napoletana

Canzone Napoletana, sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, and expressed in familiar genres such as the lover's complaint or the serenade....
, titled Italia ti amo (all three with Deutsche Grammophon). Amongst many television appearance in many countries over the years (a large number for charitable purposes), Domingo appeared as the star act in the New Orleans Opera
New Orleans Opera

Opera has long been part of the musical culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. Operas have regularly been performed in the city since the 1790s, and for the majority of the city's history since the early 19th century, New Orleans has had a resident company regularly performing opera in addition to theaters hosting traveling performers and c...
 Association's A Night For New Orleans with Frederica von Stade
Frederica von Stade

Frederica von Stade , is an American mezzo-soprano. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she acquired the nickname Flicka in her childhood. Miss von Stade attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City....
 and Elizabeth Futral
Elizabeth Futral

Elizabeth Futral is an American coloratura soprano who has won acclaim throughout the United States as well as in Europe, South America, and Japan....
, in March 2006. The concert was to raise funds for the rebuilding of the city.

In December 2008, Deutsche Grammophon released Domingo’s latest CD, Amore Infinito in which the album songs were inspired based on poems of Pope John Paul 2. In the album, Domingo performing duet with Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli

Dr. Andrea Bocelli, Order of Merit of the Republic, Doctor of Laws is an Italians Operatic pop tenor and a classical music singer who has also performed in operas....
, Josh Groban
Josh Groban

Joshua Winslow Groban is a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter. He has concentrated his career so far mostly in concert singing and recordings, although he has stated that he wishes to pursue musical theater in the future....
, Katherine Jenkins
Katherine Jenkins

Katherine Jenkins is an award-winning Welsh mezzo-soprano. Her first album Premiere made her the fastest-selling mezzo-soprano to date and she later became the first British classical artist to have two number one albums in the same year....
, Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams is the name of:* Vanessa L. Williams, R&B/pop singer and actress, born 1963, Miss America, actress in Ugly Betty* Vanessa A....
, including with his son, Plácido Domingo Jr.

Appearances on film and television

See Domingo's opera recording in DVD/VHS format and audio CD format.


Domingo has appeared in numerous opera film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s, among them are Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle was a French opera Theatre director who was born in Paris.He studied philosophy, art, and history there and, in 1952, began his career in Germany as a theatre designer for Hans Werner Henze's opera Boulevard Solitude....
's Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
, Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi

Francesco Rosi is an Italy film director. He is the father of the actress Carolina Rosi....
's Carmen
Carmen (film)

Carmen is a 1984 in film film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is probably the most popular film version of Bizet's popular opera "Carmen" and stars Julia Migenes in the title role, Pl?cido Domingo as Don Jos?, Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo, and Faith Esham as Micaela....
 (Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962....
), Gianfranco de Bosio's Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
 with Raina Kabaivanska
Raina Kabaivanska

Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lirico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....
, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director and author.He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spent his professional life there....
's Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
 with Catherine Malfitano
Catherine Malfitano

Catherine Malfitano is an United States operatic soprano. She is generally considered to be one of America's leading lyric sopranos. Her vocal versatility, physical grace and dramatic abilities make her a sought-after performer in opera houses and concert halls....
 (Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
), Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli, Order of the British Empire , is an Italy film director. He is also an theatre director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television....
's Otello
Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare's Play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest tragedy....
 with Katia Ricciarelli
Katia Ricciarelli

Katia Ricciarelli is an Italian soprano....
, Cavalleria rusticana
Cavalleria rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga based on his short story....
 & Pagliacci
Pagliacci

Pagliacci is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe....
, and La traviata
La Traviata (1983 film)

La Traviata is a 1983 in film Italy film written, designed, and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. It is based on the La traviata with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave....
 (with Teresa Stratas
Teresa Stratas

Teresa Stratas Order of Canada , is a Canada soprano opera singer....
, which received a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962....
).

He has also appeared on television in the 1978 La Scala production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut (Puccini)

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by the Abb? Pr?vost.The libretto is in Italian....
 which marked the Scala debut of Hungarian soprano Sylvia Sass
Sylvia Sass

Sylvia Sass is an acclaimed Hungarian operatic soprano, particularly associated with Verdi roles.Born in Budapest, Hungary, she studied at Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ferenc R?vhegyi....
, as well in zarzuela
Zarzuela

Zarzuela , is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance....
 evenings, and Live at the Met telecasts and broadcasts. In 2007, Domingo had a cameo in "The Homer of Seville", an episode of The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
 which revolves around Homer Simpson
Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and father of the Simpson family. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show The Simpsons shorts "Good Night " on April 19, 1987....
 becoming an opera singer. In his cameo, Domingo sang briefly. Domingo appeared on The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show is an United States television program situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 and running for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992....
 Season 5 as Alberto Santiago, a colleague of Dr Cliff Huxtable. He is also sang as the operatic moon in 2001 film Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 in film Cinema of Australia film by Baz Luhrmann, director of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, based largely on the Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata....
.

In 1989, the international television series, 'Return Journey' featured Domingo returning to his home city of Madrid refecting life there whilst recording an album of Zarzuela arias for EMI. The film was directed by Ken MacGregor.

He is the executive producer of the critically acclaimed 1998 Mexican film, The Other Conquest, produced by his son Alvaro, in which Domingo also performs the original aria "Mater Aeterna", composed by Samuel Zyman.

Christmas in Vienna

In 1990, the idea for a Christmas
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
-themed concert, involving the collaboration of Domingo, fellow operatic tenor and friend José Carreras
José Carreras

Josep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as Jos? Carreras, is a Spain Catalonia tenor. One of the most prominent opera singers of his generation, and particularly eminent in the operas of Verdi and Puccini, his career has encompassed over 60 roles on stage and in the recording studio....
, and pop music legend Diana Ross
Diana Ross

Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
 was first brought up. Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 was chosen in 1992 to host the event due to its reputation as a capital of music and the particular charm of Austria during Christmas time. The Wiener Symphoniker under the direction of maestro Vjekoslav Šutej provided the orchestral music, and the Gumpoldskirchen Children's Choir provided choral vocals. On 23 December 1992 the first in what would turn out to be a series of Christmas in Vienna concerts was seen worldwide by several hundred million people. Plácido Domingo returned to Vienna for many more Christmas in Vienna concerts, performing with stars of both pop and classical music, including Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....
, Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world....
, Sissel Kyrkjebø
Sissel Kyrkjebø

Sissel Kyrkjeb? , also known as just Sissel, is a Norway soprano. She is best known for singing the Olympic Hymn at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, for duets with Pl?cido Domingo, Charles Aznavour, Jos? Carreras, Neil Sedaka, Warren G, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Josh Groban, Diana K...
, Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman is an English people Crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She sings in many different languages including English language, Spanish language, French language, Latin language, German language, Italian language, Hindi language and Chinese language....
, Riccardo Cocciante
Riccardo Cocciante

Riccardo Cocciante, also known in French language-speaking countries as Richard Cocciante , is a French-Italian singer-songwriter and actor....
, Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is one of the most successful French-speaking singers in the world. Stylistically her music is not classical chanson, but is closer to a mixture of pop music, jazz and chanson....
, Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti Italian orders of merit was an Italian opera tenor, who also crossed over into popular music. He was the most commercially successful tenor of all....
, Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
, and many others.

Complete repertoire

Perhaps the most versatile of all living tenors, Domingo has sung 128 opera roles and as many as 130 roles (overall) in Italian, French, German, English, Spanish and Russian. His main repertoire however is Italian (Otello
Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare's Play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest tragedy....
, Cavaradossi in Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
, Don Carlo
Don Carlos

Don Carlos is a five-act Grand Opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph M?ry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller....
, Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut (Puccini)

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by the Abb? Pr?vost.The libretto is in Italian....
, Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West
La fanciulla del West

La fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian language libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco....
, Radames in Aida
Aida

Aida an Arabic female name meaning "visitor" or "returning") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette ....
), French (Faust
Faust (opera)

Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French language libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carr? from Carr?'s play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Goethe's Faust Part One....
, Werther
Werther

Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by ?douard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German novella The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....
, Don José in Carmen
Carmen

Carmen is a French op?ra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Hal?vy, based on the Carmen by Prosper M?rim?e, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem "The Gypsies" by Pushkin....
, Samson in Samson et Dalila), and German (Lohengrin
Lohengrin (opera)

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner.The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain....
, Parsifal
Parsifal

Parsifal is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the medieval Epic poetry of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail....
, and Siegmund in Die Walküre
Die Walküre

Die Walk?re is the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It is the source of the famous piece Ride of the Valkyries....
). He continues to add more operas to his repertoire, the latest was Handel
HANDEL

HANDEL was the code-name for the United Kingdom's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges....
's Tamerlano
Tamerlano

Tamerlano is an opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italy text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's Tamerlano together with another libretto entitled Bajazet after Nicolas Pradon's Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet....
 as "Bajazet" on 26 March 2008 at Teatro Real
Teatro Real

The Teatro Real or simply El Real , is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain....
.

Year#TitleComposerRoleDebut dateOpera house /
Studio recording		Location
19591Rigoletto
Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian language libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo....
Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic music composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century....
Borsa23 September 1959Palacio de Bellas Artes
Palacio de Bellas Artes

Palacio de Bellas Artes is the premier opera house of Mexico City. The building well known for both its extravagant Beaux Arts exterior in imported Italian Carrara white marble and its murals by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jos? Clemente Orozco....
Mexico City
 2Dialogues of the Carmelites
Dialogues of the Carmelites

Dialogues of the Carmelites , is an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc. In 1953, M. Valcarenghi approached Poulenc to commission a ballet for La Scala in Milan; when Poulenc found the proposed subject uninspiring, Valcarenghi suggested instead the screenplay by Georges Bernanos, based on the novella Die Letzte am Schafott , by Ge...
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
Chaplain21 October 1959Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
19603The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary composer Franz Leh?r. The Librettos, Viktor L?on and Leo Stein , based the story — concerning a rich widow, Hanna Glawari, and her attempt to find a husband ? on an 1861 comedy play, L'attach? d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac....
Lehár
Franz Lehár

Franz Leh?r , known in Hungarian as Leh?r Ferenc, was an Austrian composer of Hungarian people descent, mainly known for his operettas....
Danilo,
Camille		1960Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 4Turandot
Turandot

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi....
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
Altoum11 September 1960Teatro de la CiudadMonterrey
Monterrey

Monterrey is the capital city of the northeastern Mexico state of Nuevo Le?n and a Monterrey of the same name. Also known as "Sultana del Norte" , Monterrey is an important industrial and business center....
 5TurandotPucciniPang1 October 1960Teatro de la CiudadMonterrey
 6Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor....
Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
Normanno5 October 1960Teatro de la CiudadMonterrey
 7La traviata
La traviata

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848....
VerdiGastone8 October 1960Teatro de la CiudadMonterrey
 8Carmen
Carmen

Carmen is a French op?ra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Hal?vy, based on the Carmen by Prosper M?rim?e, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem "The Gypsies" by Pushkin....
Bizet
Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
Remendado15 October 1960Teatro de la CiudadMonterrey
 9Otello
Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare's Play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest tragedy....
VerdiCassio17 October 1960Teatro de la CiudadMonterrey
196110La traviataVerdiAlfredo19 May 1961Teatro de la CiudadMonterrey
 11El Ultimo suenoVázquezEnrique28 May 1961Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 12Amelia goes to the ballMenotti
Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italy composer and libretto. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship....
Lover28 June 1961Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 13FedoraGiordano
Umberto Giordano

Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples....
Désire,
Baron Rouvel		2 July 1961Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 14Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov (opera)

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky . The work was composed between 1868 and 1874 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece....
Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky , one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Music of Russia. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music....
Simpleton,
Shuisky		8 August 1961Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 15Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier

Andrea Ch?nier is an opera in four acts by the verismo composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, Andr? Ch?nier , who was executed during the French Revolution....
GiordanoAbbé,
Incredibile		15 August 1961Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 16Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
PucciniSpoletta21 August 1961Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 17Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
PucciniGoro15 September 1961Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 18ToscaPucciniCavaradossi30 September 1961Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
196219La bohème
La bohème

La boh?me is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Sc?nes de la vie de boh?me by Henri Murger....
PucciniRodolfo4 March 1962Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 20Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte

Cos? fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte....
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
Ferrando10 May 1962Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 21Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the Play by Eug?ne Scribe and Ernest Legouv?....
Cilea
Francesco Cilea

Francesco Cilea was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur....
Maurizio17 May 1962Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
 22Trittico FrancescanoRefice
Licinio Refice

Licinio Refice was an Italy composer and priest. With Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi, he represented the new direction taken by Italian church music in the twentieth century....
 1 October 1962Teatro DegolladoGuadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco

Guadalajara is the capital city of the Mexico state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of the state and in the western-Pacific area of Mexico....
 23Madama ButterflyPucciniPinkerton7 October 1962Teatro Isauro MartínezTorreón
Torreón

Torre?n is a city and seat of the Torre?n in the Mexico States of Mexico of Coahuila. As of 2005, the city's population was 548,723 with 577,477 in the municipality....
 24Lucia di LammermoorDonizettiEdgardo26 November 1962Fort Worth OperaFort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the List of United States cities by population in the United States and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Situated in and a cultural gateway into the Western United States, the city covers nearly in Tarrant County, Texas and Denton County, Texas counties, serving as the county seat for Tarrant County....
196325CarmenBizetDon José25 June 1963Israeli Opera HouseTel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
 26Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with Italian language libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787 in music....
MozartDon Ottavio21 September 1963Israeli Opera HouseTel Aviv
 27Faust
Faust (opera)

Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French language libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carr? from Carr?'s play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Goethe's Faust Part One....
Gounod
Charles Gounod

Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
Faust3 December 1963Israeli Opera HouseTel Aviv
196428Les pêcheurs de perles
Les pêcheurs de perles

Les p?cheurs de perles is an opera in three acts by Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eug?ne Cormon and Michel Carr?. It was first performed on 30 September 1863 at the Th??tre Lyrique in Paris....
BizetNadir21 January 1964Israeli Opera HouseTel Aviv
 29Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin (opera)

Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, is an opera in 3 acts , by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin....
Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
Lenski5 September 1964Israeli Opera HouseTel Aviv
196530Cavalleria rusticana
Cavalleria rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga based on his short story....
Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni

Pietro Mascagni was an Italy composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and singlehandedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music....
Turiddu21 January 1965Israeli Opera HouseTel Aviv
 31Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah (opera)

Samson et Dalila , Op. 47, is a Grand Opera in three acts and four tableaux by Camille Saint-Sa?ns to a French language libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire....
Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
Samson30 July 1965Chautauqua Opera
Chautauqua Opera

The Chautauqua Opera is the resident summer opera company of the Chautauqua Institution. It is the oldest continuously active summer opera company in the U.S, having been founded in 1929, and it has produced several operas during the Institution's nine-week summer season every year since....
Chautauqua
 32Les contes d'Hoffmann
Les contes d'Hoffmann

Les contes d'Hoffmann is an opera by Jacques Offenbach. It was first performed in Paris, at the Op?ra-Comique, on February 10, 1881 in music....
Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach

File:Offencolor.jpgJacques Offenbach was a Germany-born France composer and cello of the Romantic music era and one of the originators of the operetta form....
Hoffmann7 September 1965 Palacio de Bellas ArtesMexico City
196633La Mulata de CórdobaMancayo
José Pablo Moncayo

Jos? Pablo Moncayo was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and Conducting. As composer, Jos? Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Ch?vez....
Sandi,
Moreno,
Moncayo		1 January 1966Gran Teatre del LiceuBarcelona
 34Don Rodrigo
Don Rodrigo

Don Rodrigo is an opera in three acts by Alberto Ginastera, the composer's first opera, to an original Spain libretto by Alejandro Casona. Ginastera composed the opera on commission from the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina....
Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentina composer of European classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers....
Don Rodrigo22 February 1966New York City Opera
New York City Opera

The New York City Opera was founded in 1943 with the aim of an opera company that would be financially accessible to a wide audience, innovative in its choice of repertory, and a home for United States singers and composers....
New York
 35Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier

Andrea Ch?nier is an opera in four acts by the verismo composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, Andr? Ch?nier , who was executed during the French Revolution....
Giordano
Umberto Giordano

Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples....
Andrea Chénier3 March 1966New Orleans Opera
New Orleans Opera

Opera has long been part of the musical culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. Operas have regularly been performed in the city since the 1790s, and for the majority of the city's history since the early 19th century, New Orleans has had a resident company regularly performing opera in addition to theaters hosting traveling performers and c...
New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
 36Hippolyte et Aricie
Hippolyte et Aricie

Hippolyte et Aricie was the first opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, which opened to great controversy at the Acad?mie Royale de Musique, Paris on October 1, 1733....
Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theory of the Baroque music era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French author of music for the harpsichord of his time, alongside Fran?ois Couperin....
Hippolyte6 April 1966Boston Opera House
Boston Opera House

Two Boston, Massachusetts theaters have been known as the Boston Opera House. The first was a purpose-built opera house opened in 1909 and demolished in 1958....
Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
 37Pagliacci
Pagliacci

Pagliacci is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe....
Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer. His opera Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the operatic repertory, appearing as number 14 on Opera America's 2007 list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America....
Canio9 August 1966 Metropolitan OperaNew York
 38The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The overture, first written for Aureliano in Palmira, is a famous example of Rossini's characteristic Italian style....
RossiniAlmaviva16 September 1966 Teatro DegolladoGuadalajara
 39Anna Bolena
Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian language libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both tellings of the life of Anne Boleyn....
DonizettiLord Percy15 November 1966 Metropolitan OperaNew York
196740Il tabarro
Il tabarro

Il tabarro is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian language libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's La Houppelande....
PucciniLuigi8 March 1967 Metropolitan OperaNew York
 41Aida
Aida

Aida an Arabic female name meaning "visitor" or "returning") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette ....
VerdiRadames11 May 1967Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg State Opera

The Hamburg State Opera is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.Opera in Hamburg dates back to 2 January 1678 in music when the "Opern-Theatrum" was inaugurated with a performance of a biblical Singspiel by Johann Theile....
Hamburg
Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
 42Don Carlo
Don Carlos

Don Carlos is a five-act Grand Opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph M?ry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller....
VerdiDon Carlo19 May 1967Vienna State Opera
Vienna State Opera

The Vienna State Opera is an opera house - and opera company - with a history dating back to the mid 19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria....
Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 43Un ballo in maschera
Un ballo in maschera

'Un ballo in maschera' , is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. The opera's first production was at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, February 17, 1859....
VerdiRiccardo31 May 1967Berlin State Opera
Berlin State Opera

Staatsoper Unter den Linden is a prominent Germany opera company. Its permanent home is the Opera House on the Unter den Linden boulevard in Berlin....
Berlin
196844Lohengrin
Lohengrin (opera)

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner.The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain....
Wagner
Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
Lohengrin14 January 1968Hamburg State OperaHamburg
 45Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut (Puccini)

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by the Abb? Pr?vost.The libretto is in Italian....
PucciniDes Grieux15 February 1968 Connecticut OperaHartford
Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the Capital of the Connecticut. It is located in Hartford County, Connecticut on the Connecticut River, north of the center of the state, south of Springfield, Massachusetts....
 46Il trovatore
Il trovatore

Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play El Trovador by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez....
VerdiManrico14 March 1968New Orleans OperaNew Orleans
196947RigolettoVerdiIl Duca2 January 1969 Hamburg State OperaHamburg
 48La forza del destino
La forza del destino

La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don ?lvaro, o La fuerza del sino , by ?ngel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager....
VerdiDon Alvaro18 January 1969 Hamburg State OperaHamburg
 49Manon
Manon

Manon is an op?ra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on L?histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abb? Pr?vost....
Massenet
Jules Massenet

Jules Massenet was a France composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era....
Des Grieux20 February 1969 Metropolitan OperaNew York
 50TurandotPucciniCalaf16 July 1969Verona Arena
Verona Arena

The Verona Arena is a Ancient Rome amphitheatre in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there....
Verona
Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
 51Ernani
Ernani

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo....
VerdiErnani7 December 1969Teatro alla ScalaMilan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
197052Oberon
Oberon (opera)

Oberon, or The Elf King's Oath is a romantic opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber to an English libretto by James Robinson Planche, after a poem Oberon by Christoph Martin Wieland, which was based on the story Huon de Bordeaux ....
Weber
Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a Germans composer, conducting, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romanticism school....
HüonMarch, 1970Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bayerischer Rundfunk

Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Broadcasting] is the public broadcasting authority for the Germany Freistaat of Bavaria, with its main offices located in Munich....
 studio		Studio
 53La Gioconda
La Gioconda (opera)

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835....
Ponchielli
Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas....
Enzo14 May 1970Teatro Real
Teatro Real

The Teatro Real or simply El Real , is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain....
Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
 54Roberto Devereux
Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Jacques-Fran?ois Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre....
DonizettiDevereux15 October 1970 New York City OperaNew York
197155Der Rosenkavalier
Der Rosenkavalier

Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai and Moli?re?s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac....
R. Strauss
Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
Italian singerMarch, 1971 Studio
 56I Lombardi alla prima crociata
I Lombardi alla prima crociata

I Lombardi alla prima crociata is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi....
VerdiOronteJuly, 1971Royal Philharmonic
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"....
,
London		Studio
 57Luisa Miller
Luisa Miller

Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller....
VerdiRodolfo4 November 1971 Metropolitan OperaNew York
197258Giovanna d'Arco
Giovanna d'Arco

Giovanna d'Arco is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera....
VerdiCarlo VIIAugust, 1972 Studio
 59Los ClavelesSerranoFernando1972 Studio
 60La dolorosa
La dolorosa (play)

La dolorosa is a zarzuela by Spain composer Jos? Serrano . La dolorosa premiered at the Teatro Apolo in Valencia on 23 May 1930 with text by J.J.Lorente....
Serrano
José Serrano (composer)

Jos? Serrano was a Spain composer of zarzuelas. He was born in Sueca, Valencia , Spain.His most famous works include La dolorosa and La canci?n del olvido ....
Rafael1972 Studio
197361Francesca da Rimini
Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)

Francesca da Rimini is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with libretto by Casa Ricordi, , after a play by Gabriele D'Annunzio....
Zandonai
Riccardo Zandonai

Riccardo Zandonai was an Italy opera composer....
Paolo22 March 1973 Metropolitan OperaNew York
 62L'Africaine
L'Africaine

L'africaine is a grand opera, the last work of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French libretto was written by Eug?ne Scribe. Meyerbeer's working title for the opera was 'Vasco da Gama', the hero....
Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted Germany-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera....
Vasco da Gama3 November 1973 War Memorial Opera House
War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco)

The War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California is located on the western side of Van Ness Avenue across from the rear facade of San Francisco City Hall....
San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
197463I Vespri Siciliani
Les vêpres siciliennes

Les v?pres siciliennes is an opera in five acts by the Italy Romanticism composer Giuseppe Verdi set to a French language libretto by Charles Duveyrier and Eug?ne Scribe from their work Le duc d'Albe....
VerdiArrigo9 April 1974Palais Garnier
Palais Garnier

The Palais Garnier, also known as the Op?ra de Paris or Op?ra Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Op?ra, is a 2,200-seat opera house on the Place de l'Op?ra in Paris, France....
Paris
 64Mefistofele
Mefistofele

Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera by the Italy composer-librettist Arrigo Boito.Boito began consideration of an opera on the Faustian theme after completing his studies at the Milan Conservatory in 1861....
Boito
Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito , aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretto and his own opera, Mefistofele....
FaustJuly, 1974 Studio
 65Roméo et Juliette
Roméo et Juliette

Rom?o et Juliette is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French language libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carr?, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare....
GounodRoméo28 September 1974Metropolitan OperaNew York
 66La fanciulla del West
La fanciulla del West

La fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian language libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco....
PucciniDick Johnson26 November 1974Teatro Regio di TorinoTurin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
197567La Navarraise
La Navarraise

La Navarraise is an opera in one act by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie and Henri Cain. It was first performed at Royal Opera House in London on June 2, 1894, with Emma Calv? in the title role....
MassenetAraquil1975 Studio
 68OtelloVerdiOtello28 September 1975Hamburg State OperaHamburg
197669Gianni Schicchi
Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dante The Divine Comedy....
PucciniRinuccio1976 Studio
 70Louise
Louise (opera)

Louise is an opera in four acts by Gustave Charpentier to an original French libretto by the composer, with some contributions by Saint-Pol-Roux, a symbolist poet and inspiration of the surrealists....
Charpentier
Gustave Charpentier

Gustave Charpentier was a France composer, best known for his opera Louise .He was born in Dieuze, the son of a baker, and after studying at the conservatoire in Lille entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1881....
Julien1976 Studio
 71Macbeth
Macbeth (opera)

Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeare's Macbeth....
VerdiMacduff1976 Studio
 72Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Die Meistersinger von N?rnberg is an opera in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is one of the most popular operas in the repertory, and is among the longest still commonly performed today, usually taking around four and a half hours....
WagnerWalther von StolzingMarch, 1976 Studio
 73Le Cid
Le Cid (opera)

Le Cid is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet, ?douard Blau and Adolphe d'Ennery. It is based on Le Cid by Pierre Corneille....
MassenetDon Rodrigue8 March 1976Metropolitan OperaNew York
 74L'amore dei tre re
L'amore dei tre re

L'amore dei tre re is an opera in three acts by Italo Montemezzi. Its Italian-language libretto was written by playwright Sem Benelli who based it on his own play of the same title....
Montemezzi
Italo Montemezzi

Italo Montemezzi was an Italy composer. He is best known for his opera L'amore dei tre re , once part of the standard repertoire.Montemezzi was born in Vigasio, near Verona....
AvitoJuly, 1976 Studio
197775L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore is a melodramma giocoso in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian language libretto after Eug?ne Scribe's libretto for Daniel-Fran?ois-Esprit Auber's Le philtre ....
DonizettiNemorino1977 Studio
 76FedoraGiordanoLoris15 February 1977Gran Teatre del LiceuBarcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
 77Werther
Werther

Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by ?douard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German novella The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....
MassenetWerther18 December 1977Bavarian State Opera
Bavarian State Opera

The Bayerische Staatsoper is an opera company based in Munich, Germany in existence since 1653. Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra....
Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
197878La damnation de FaustBerlioz
Hector Berlioz

Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
FaustJanuary, 1978 Studio
197979Le Villi
Le Villi

Le Villi is an opera-ballet in two acts composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian language libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Alphonse Karr....
PucciniRobertoJune, 1979 Studio
 80Requiem
Requiem (Berlioz)

The Grande Messe des morts, opus number. 5 by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind instrument and brass instruments, including four antiphonal brass ensembles placed at the corners of the concert stage....
BerliozTenor partJune, 1979 Studio
 81Béatrice et Bénédict
Béatrice et Bénédict

B?atrice et B?n?dict is a comic opera in two acts by Hector Berlioz. The French libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based loosely on William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing....
BerliozBénédictJuly, 1979 Studio
 82Il GiuramentoMercadante
Saverio Mercadante

File:Saverio Mercadante by Cefaly.jpgGiuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italy composer, particularly of operas....
Viscardo9 September 1979Vienna State OperaVienna
198083El PoetaTorroba
Federico Moreno Torroba

Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spain composer, born in Madrid....
José de Espronceda19 June 1980Teatro RealMadrid
198184Norma
Norma (opera)

Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio by Alexandre Soumet....
Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italy opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera....
Pollione21 September 1981Metropolitan OperaNew York
198285La rondine
La rondine

La rondine is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian language libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by A. M. Willner and Heinz Reichert....
PucciniRuggero1982 Studio
 86Nabucco
Nabucco

Nabucco is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the biblical story and the Play by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu....
VerdiIsmaeleMay, 1982 Studio
 87Les Troyens
Les Troyens

Les Troyens is a France opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid....
BerliozEnée26 September 1983Metropolitan OperaNew York
198688Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus

Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German language libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Gen?e....
J. Strauss
Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer famous for having written over 500 waltzes, polkas, March , and galops. He was the son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss....
AlfredApril, 1986 Studio
 89GoyaMenottiGoya15 November 1986Washington National Opera
Washington National Opera

The Washington National Opera is a world-class opera company in Washington, D.C., USA. Formerly the Washington Opera, the company received Congressional designation as the National Opera Company in 2000....
Washington
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
198890Iris
Iris (opera)

Iris is an opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an original Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. Its first performance was at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 22 November 1898....
MascagniOsaka1988 Studio
 91Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser (opera)

Tannh?user is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two Germany legends of Tannh?user and the S?ngerkrieg at Wartburg Castle....
WagnerTannhäuserApril, 1988 Studio
198992Die Frau ohne Schatten
Die Frau ohne Schatten

Die Frau ohne Schatten is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal....
R. StraussDer KaiserMarch, 1989 Studio
199093Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha is a musical theater with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote....
Leigh
Mitch Leigh

Mitch Leigh is an United States musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the show Man Of La Mancha.Born Irwin Michnick and graduating from Yale University under Paul Hindemith, he began as a jazz musician and writing commercials for radio and television....
Don QuixoteJune, 1990 Studio
199194The Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman (opera)

Der fliegende Holl?nder is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner. The story comes from the The Flying Dutchman, about a ship captain condemned to sail until Last Judgment....
WagnerErikFebruary, 1991 Studio
 95Parsifal
Parsifal

Parsifal is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the medieval Epic poetry of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail....
WagnerParsifal14 March 1991Metropolitan OperaNew York
199296The Barber of SevilleRossiniFigaroFebruary, 1992 Studio
 97El Gato MontésPenella
Manuel Penella

Manuel Penella Moreno was a Spain composer. His father was the composer Manuel Penella Raga. His daughter Magdalena Penella Silva married the politician Ram?n Ruiz Alonso; through her, he was the grandfather of actresses Emma Penella, Elisa Mont?s, and Terele P?vez....
Rafaele Ruiz7 August 1992 Seville OperaSeville
Seville

||-||}Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville ....
 98Die Walküre
Die Walküre

Die Walk?re is the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It is the source of the famous piece Ride of the Valkyries....
WagnerSiegmund19 December 1992 Vienna State OperaVienna
199399Stiffelio
Stiffelio

Stiffelio is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the Play Le pasteur, ou L'?vangile et le foyer by ?mile Souvestre and Eug?ne Bourgeois....
VerdiStiffelio21 October 1993 Metropolitan OperaNew York
1994100Doña FrancisquitaVives
Amadeo Vives

Amadeo Vives was a Spain musical composer, creator of over a hundred stage works. He is also known by the Catalan language form of his name, Amadeu Vives....
FernandoFebruary, 1994 Studio
 101La Verbena de la PalomaBretón
Tomás Bretón

Tom?s Bret?n , was a Spain musician and composer.Throughout his entire life, Tom?s Bret?n was a well-known and highly-esteemed composer, especially as a result of the success of his zarzuela La verbena de la Paloma, although other works were well-received by audiences and critics, such as his ?peras Los amantes de Teruel , based on...
JulianApril, 1994 Studio
 102Il Guarany
Il Guarany

Il Guarany is an Italian opera-ballo by Carlos Gomes, based on the Brazilian novel O Guarani, written by Jos? de Alencar. The libretto was written by Antonio Scalvini and Carlo D'Ormeville....
Gomes
Antônio Carlos Gomes

Ant?nio Carlos Gomes is one of the most distinguished nineteenth century classical composers, being the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe....
Pery5 June 1994Bonn Opera HouseBonn
Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
 103Idomeneo
Idomeneo

Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante is an Italian language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, which had been set to music by Andr? Campra as Idom?n?e in 1712....
MozartIdomeneo1 November 1994 Metropolitan OperaNew York
 104Hérodiade
Hérodiade

H?rodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, based on the novella H?rodias by Gustave Flaubert....
MassenetJean8 November 1994 War Memorial Opera HouseSan Francisco
1995105Luisa Fernanda
Luisa Fernanda (zarzuela)

Luisa Fernanda is a romantic zarzuela in three acts by Federico Moreno Torroba. The libretto is written in Spanish language by Federico Romero and Guillermo Fern?ndez Shaw....
TorrobaJavier1995 Studio
 106Simon Boccanegra
Simon Boccanegra

Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the Play Sim?n Bocanegra by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez....

(1881 version)		VerdiAdorno19 January 1995 Metropolitan OperaNew York
1996107La Tabernera del PuertoSorozábal
Pablo Sorozábal

Pablo Sorozabal Mariezkurrena was a Basque people-Basque composer.Trained in San Sebasti?n, Madrid and Leipzig; then in Berlin, where he preferred Friedrich Koch as composition teacher to Arnold Schoenberg, whose theories he disliked....
Leandro1996 Studio
1997108Simon Boccanegra
(1857 version)		VerdiAdorno28 June 1997Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
London
 109Divinas PalabrasAbril
Antón García Abril

Ant?n Garc?a Abril is a Spain composer and musician. In 1997 Pl?cido Domingo created the role of Lucero in his Divinas Palabras at the Teatro Real in Madrid....
Lucero18 October 1997Teatro RealMadrid
1998110Le prophète
Le prophète

Le proph?te is an opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French language-language libretto was by Eug?ne Scribe....
MeyerbeerJean van der Leyden21 May 1998 Vienna State OperaVienna
 111Faust Symphony
Faust Symphony

A Faust Symphony in three character pictures , List of compositions by Franz Liszt , or simply the "Faust Symphony", was written by Hungary composer Franz Liszt and was inspired by Johann von Goethe's drama, Goethe's Faust....
Liszt
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
Tenor partJune, 1998 Studio
 112La DoloresBretónLázaroJuly, 1998 Studio
1999113Das Lied von der Erde
Das Lied von der Erde

'Das Lied von der Erde' is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian people composer Gustav Mahler. Laid out in six separate movements, each of them an independent song, the work is described on the title-page as Eine Symphonie f?r eine Tenor- und eine Alt- Stimme und Orchester - ...
Mahler
Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conducting. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day....
Tenor partFebruary, 1999 Studio
 114Misa TangoBacalovTenor partFebruary, 1999 Studio
 115The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades (opera)

The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 is an opera in 3 acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on a The Queen of Spades by the poet Alexander Pushkin....
TchaikovskyHermann18 March 1999 Metropolitan OperaNew York
 116Fidelio
Fidelio

Fidelio is a German language opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly....
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
FlorestanJune, 1999 Studio
 117MerlinAlbéniz
Isaac Albéniz

Isaac Manuel Francisco Alb?niz i Pascual was a Spain Catalonia pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music.=Life=...
King ArthurJuly, 1999Orquesta Nacional de España
Orquesta Nacional de España

The Orquesta Nacional de Espa?a is the largest symphonic orchestra in Madrid. It was founded in 1937.Principal conductors* Josep Pons ...
,
Madrid		Studio
 118Margarita la tornera
Margarita la tornera

Margarita la tornera is a Spanish language opera by Ruperto Chap? with a libretto by Carlos Fern?ndez Shaw. It is based on a dramatic poem by Jos? Zorrilla....
Chapí
Ruperto Chapí

Ruperto Chap? y Lorente was a Spain composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores.Chap? was the son of a Valencia, Spain barber....
Don Juan de Alarcón11 December 1999Teatro RealMadrid
2000119La Gran ViaChueca
Federico Chueca

Federico Chueca was a Spain composer of zarzuelas and author of La gran v?a along with Joaqu?n Valverde in 1886. Chueca was one of the most prominent figures of the g?nero chico....
Caballero de GracíaJanuary, 2000 Studio
 120The Merry WidowLehárDanilo17 February 2000 Metropolitan OperaNew York
 121La battaglia di Legnano
La battaglia di Legnano

La battaglia di Legnano is an opera in four acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian-language libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. It was based on the Play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph M?ry....
VerdiArrigo30 June 2000Royal Opera HouseLondon
2001122La RevoltosaChapíFelipeJanuary, 2001 Studio
2002123Sly
Sly (opera)

Sly, ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on the Prologue to William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew....
Wolf-Ferrari
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italy composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna . A number of his works were based on plays by Carlo Goldoni, including Le donne curiose , I quattro rusteghi and Il campiello ....
Christopher Sly1 April 2002 Metropolitan OperaNew York
2003124Luisa FernandaTorrobaVidal Hernando18 June 2003 Teatro alla ScalaMilan
 125Nicholas and AlexandraDrattell
Deborah Drattell

Deborah Drattell is an United States composer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and started her career in music as a violinist. Her compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St....
Rasputin14 September 2003Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles Opera

The Los Angeles Opera is an opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center....
Los Angeles
2004126Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde

Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German language libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Stra?burg....
WagnerTristanDecember, 2004EMI Abbey Road Studio 1,
London		Studio
2005127Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a four-act opera with music by Franco Alfano, and libretto by Henri Cain, based on Edmond Rostand's drama Cyrano de Bergerac ....
Alfano
Franco Alfano

Franco Alfano was an Italy composer and piano. Though today best known for completing Giacomo Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot in 1926, he had considerable success with his own works during his lifetime....
Cyrano13 May 2005 Metropolitan OperaNew York
2006128The First Emperor
The First Emperor

The First Emperor is an opera in two acts with a libretto written in English language by Tan Dun and Ha Jin, and music by Tan Dun. The opera received its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera at the Lincoln Center in New York City on 21 December, 2006, conducted by the composer and with Pl?cido Domingo in the title role....
Tan
Tan Dun

Tan Dun is a Han Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his Grammy and Academy Awards-award winning scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero ....
Emperor Qin21 December 2006 Metropolitan OperaNew York
2007129Iphigénie en Tauride
Iphigénie en Tauride

Iphig?nie en Tauride is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. The French language libretto was written by Nicolas-Fran?ois Guillard....
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years....
Oreste27 November 2007 Metropolitan OperaNew York
2008130Tamerlano
Tamerlano

Tamerlano is an opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italy text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's Tamerlano together with another libretto entitled Bajazet after Nicolas Pradon's Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet....
Handel
George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel was an England Baroque music composer of Germany birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grosso. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England....
Bajazet26 March 2008Teatro RealMadrid


Major opera house and festival debut

YearOpera house / FestivalOpera
1967Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg State Opera

The Hamburg State Opera is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.Opera in Hamburg dates back to 2 January 1678 in music when the "Opern-Theatrum" was inaugurated with a performance of a biblical Singspiel by Johann Theile....
Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
 Vienna State Opera
Vienna State Opera

The Vienna State Opera is an opera house - and opera company - with a history dating back to the mid 19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria....
Don Carlos
Don Carlos

Don Carlos is a five-act Grand Opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph M?ry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller....
1968Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the Play by Eug?ne Scribe and Ernest Legouv?....
1969Verona Arena
Verona Arena

The Verona Arena is a Ancient Rome amphitheatre in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there....
Turandot
Turandot

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi....
 San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera is the second largest opera company in North America after the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola ....
La bohème
La bohème

La boh?me is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Sc?nes de la vie de boh?me by Henri Murger....
 Teatro alla ScalaErnani
Ernani

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo....
1970Teatro Real
Teatro Real

The Teatro Real or simply El Real , is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain....
La Gioconda
La Gioconda (opera)

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835....
 Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for several simultaneous Arts festival festivals that take place during August each year in Edinburgh, Scotland....
Missa Solemnis
Missa Solemnis (Beethoven)

The Missa solemnis in D Major, opus number 123 was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819-1823. It was first performed on April 7, 1824 in St....
1971Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
Tosca
1972Bavarian State Opera
Bavarian State Opera

The Bayerische Staatsoper is an opera company based in Munich, Germany in existence since 1653. Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra....
La bohème
1973Paris Opéra
Palais Garnier

The Palais Garnier, also known as the Op?ra de Paris or Op?ra Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Op?ra, is a 2,200-seat opera house on the Place de l'Op?ra in Paris, France....
Il trovatore
Il trovatore

Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play El Trovador by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez....
1975Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
Don Carlo
1992Bayreuth Festival
Bayreuth Festival

The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented....
Parsifal
Parsifal

Parsifal is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the medieval Epic poetry of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail....


Awards and honors

Domingo has received numerous awards and honors, including:

Grammy Award

  • 1971 - Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Verdi: Aida
  • 1974 - Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for G. Puccini: La bohème
  • 1983 - Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Verdi: La Traviata
  • 1984 - Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Bizet: Carmen
  • 1984 - Best Latin Pop Performance for Always in my Heart (Siempre en mi corazon)
  • 1988 - Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Wagner: Lohengrin
  • 1990 - Best Classical Vocal Performance for Carreras-Domingo-Pavarotti in Concert
  • 1992 - Principal Soloist for Best Opera Recording for Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
  • 2000 - Best Mexican-American Performance for 100 years of Mariachi


Latin Grammy Award

  • 2000 - Best Classical Album for T. Breton: La Dolores
  • 2001 - Best Classical Album for I. Albéniz: Merlin
  • 2008 - "Best Classical Album" for various composers Pasión Española


Government and organization honors

Austria
  • Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst 1. Klasse
  • Kammersänger und Ehrenmitglied der Wiener Staatsoper
  • Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien – 2007


France
  • Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur
  • Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
  • Commandeur Arts et Lettres
  • Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris
  • Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur – March 2002


Great Britain
  • Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
    Order of the British Empire

    The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
     (KBE) – October 2002


Spain
  • Isabel la Católica
  • Premio Príncipe de Asturias - 1991
  • Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil – September 2002


Sweden
  • Birgit Nilsson Prize
    Birgit Nilsson Prize

    The Birgit Nilsson Prize is an international music prize founded by the famous singer herself.Nilsson decided towards the end of her career to establish a foundation for a prize to be awarded every second or third year in the amount of one million dollars for ?outstanding achieve?ments by, a singer in the field of opera or concert or orator...
    , inaugural recipient - 2009


USA
  • Kennedy Center Honors
    Kennedy Center Honors

    The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for theirlifetime of contributions to Culture of the United States....
     – December 2000
  • The presidential Medal of Freedom – July 2002


Other countries
  • Orden del Águila Azteca, (Mexico).
  • Capo dell’Ordine "Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana" Grande Ufficiale (Italy)
  • Grã-Cruz da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique
    Order of Prince Henry (Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique)

    The Order of Prince Henry the Navigator is a Portugal Order of knighthood created on June 2, 1960, to commemorate the fifth centenary of the death of the Infante Henrique, commonly known in English as Henry the Navigator, fifth son of King Jo?o I and Queen Philippa of Lancaster....
     (Portugal)
  • Cavalliere di Malta (Malta)
  • Order of the Cedars (Lebanon) - 2004


NPO
  • Unicef Socio de Honor (UNICEF)


Honorary Doctorates

  • Royal Northern College of Music, England (1982)
  • Philadelphia College of Performing Arts, USA (1982)
  • Oklahoma City University, USA (1984)
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1989)
  • New York University, USA (1990)
  • Georgetown University, USA (1992)
  • Washington College of Chestertown, USA (2000)
  • Anáhuac University, Mexico (2001)
  • Chopin Music Academy, Poland (2003)
  • Oxford University, England (2003)


Other entertainment awards and appreciation

  • A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
    Hollywood Walk of Fame

    The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
     – 1993 (Location: Domingo, Placido LT 7000 Hollywood Blvd)
  • A star on the Kunstmeile (Art Mile) in Vienna - 2008
  • Sociedad General de Autores Española (Best Lyric Singer of the Year 1997) for his role in the world premiere of "Divinas Palabras" - 1997
  • Association of Argentinian Music Critics (Best Male Singer in 1997) for “Samson and Dalila" - 1997
  • Baltika Grand Prix for Outstanding Achievement - June 1998
  • American Latina Media Arts (ALMA) Awards (Outstanding Performances By An Individual or Act in A Variety) - 1998
  • Hispanic Heritage Award for Arts - September 1999
  • Great Prize of the International Music Press - September 2000
  • The Ella Award - 2002
  • Opera News Award for distinguished achievement, inaugural recipient, 2005
  • Classical BRIT Awards
    Classical Brit Awards

    The Classical BRIT Awards are an annual awards ceremony held in the United Kingdom covering aspects of European classical music, and are the classical equivalent of pop music's Grammy or BRIT Awards....
     - 2006 (Critics' Award for Tristan and Isolde and Lifetime Achievement Award)
  • Domingo was named "The King of singers" in BBC Music Magazine
    BBC music magazine

    BBC Music Magazine is a magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by the BBC, devoted primarily to classical music, though with sections on jazz and world music....
     for April 2008 issue. He was voted as the greatest tenor in history by 16 renowned opera critics in a quest to find the world top 20 operatic tenors. The headline of the page stated "The king of the singers – The critics number 1 choice. Domingo is that rarest vocal phenomena, a tenor who uses his voice in the service of re-creating great art, and not as a thrilling end in itself."
  • BAMBI
    Bambi

    Bambi is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13 1942. The fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is based on the 1923 book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten....
     award - 1995, 27 November 2008 in Offenburg, Germany


Writings

DateTitlePublisherISBNPagesAuthor(s)
Sept
1983		My First Forty YearsAlfred A. KnopfISBN 0394523296256Plácido Domingo
Dec
1994		Opera 101: A Complete Guide to
Learning and Loving Opera		HyperionISBN 0786880252494Fred Plotkin,
Plácido Domingo (intro)
July
1997		Christmas With Plácido Domingo:
Trumpets Sound And Angels Sing		Alfred Publishing CompanyISBN 089524321080Plácido Domingo,
Milton Okun (editor)
July
1997		Bajo el cielo español
(Under the Spanish Sky)		Warner Brothers PublicationsISBN 076920024984Plácido Domingo (Recorder),
Carol Cuellar (Compiler)
March
1999		Plácido Domingo - Por AmorHal Leonard CorporationISBN 0711972583104Plácido Domingo
March
2003		Plácido Domingo (Great Voices Series):
My Operatic Roles		Baskerville Publishers, IncorporatedISBN 1880909618319Helena Matheopoulos,
Plácido Domingo
March
2007		Leoncavallo: Life and WorksRowman & Littlefield Publishers, IncISBN 0810858738
ISBN 0810858800		349
351		Konrad Claude Dryden,
Plácido Domingo (intro)
Dec
2007		So When Does the Fat Lady Sing?Hal Leonard CorporationISBN 1574671626173Michael Walsh
Michael Walsh (author)

Michael A. Walsh is a music critic, author and screenwriter. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, New York in 1971, he became a reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in February 1972, where he won the New York State Publishers Association first prize for reporting for a series of articles abo...
,
Plácido Domingo (intro)


  • A new book by Domingo, The Joy of Opera, will be published by WWW Norton in year 2009,


Humanitarian works and initiatives


  • On 4 March 2006, Domingo sang at the Gala Benefit Concert, "A Night For New Orleans" at the New Orleans Arena
    New Orleans Arena

    The New Orleans Arena is an list of indoor arenas in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the city's Central Business District, New Orleans, adjacent to the Louisiana Superdome....
     to help rebuilding the city after it was hit by Hurricane Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest Atlantic hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States....
    . At the gala, he made a statement, "If music be the food of love", is "MUSIC IS THE VOICE OF HOPE!" . On 23 March 2008, the New Orleans City Council named the city theatre's stage in the Mahalia Jackson Theatre
    Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts

    The Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is a theater located in Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was named after gospel music singer Mahalia Jackson, who was born in New Orleans....
     in Louis Armstrong Park
    Louis Armstrong Park

    Louis Armstrong Park is a park located in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter....
    , the "Plácido Domingo stage" as the honour for his contribution at the Gala Benefits Concert. The Gala collected $700,000 for the city recovery fund.


  • In 1986, he performed at benefit concert
    Benefit concert

    A benefit concert is a concert, show or gala featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable organization purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis....
    s to raise funds for the victims of 1985 Mexico City earthquake
    1985 Mexico City earthquake

    The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck Mexico on 19 September 1985 at 7:19 local time, causing the deaths of about 10,000 people and serious damage in the Mexico City....
     and released an album of one of the events. On 21 August 2007, as recognition to his support to 1985 Mexico City earthquake victims as well as his artistic works, a statue in his honor, made in Mexico City from keys donated by the people, was unveiled. The statue is the work of Alejandra Zúñiga, is two meters tall, weighs about 300 kg (660 lbs) and is part of the "Grandes valores" (Great values) program..


  • Domingo supports the Hear the World initiative as an ambassador to raise awareness for the topic of hearing and hearing loss.


  • In 1993 he founded Operalia, an international opera competition for talented young singers. The winners get the opportunities of being employed in opera ensembles around the world. Domingo has been instrumental in giving many young artists encouragement, (and special attention) as in 2001, when he invited New York tenor, Daniel Rodriguez
    Daniel Rodriguez

    Daniel Rodriguez is an American operatic tenor from New York City. He became known as "The Singing Policeman" in his former work with the New York City Police Department, due to his role as one of the department's designated National Anthem singers....
     to attend the Vilar/Domingo Young Artists program to further develop his operatic skills.


  • On 21 December 2003, Domingo made a performance in Cancún to benefit the Ciudad de la Alegria Foundation, the foundation that provides assistance and lodging to people in need, including low-income individuals, orphans, expectant mothers, immigrants, rehabilitated legal offenders, and the terminally ill.


  • On 27 June 2007, Domingo and Katherine Jenkins
    Katherine Jenkins

    Katherine Jenkins is an award-winning Welsh mezzo-soprano. Her first album Premiere made her the fastest-selling mezzo-soprano to date and she later became the first British classical artist to have two number one albums in the same year....
     performed in a charity concert in Athens
    Athens

    Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
     to raise funds to aid the conflict in Darfur
    Darfur

    Darfur is a region in Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by History of the Anglo-Egyptian co-dominium....
    . The concert was organized by Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders.


  • In 2 October 2007, Domingo joins several other preeminent figures in entertainment, government, the environment and more, as the one of receivers of the BMW Hydrogen 7
    BMW Hydrogen 7

    The BMW Hydrogen 7 is a limited production hydrogen vehicle built by German automobile manufacturer BMW. The car is based on BMW?s traditional gasoline powered BMW 7 Series line of vehicles, and more specifically the 760Li....
    , designed in the mission to build support of hydrogen as a viable substitute to fossil fuels.


  • On 17 January 2009 he performed with the New Orleans Opera
    New Orleans Opera

    Opera has long been part of the musical culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. Operas have regularly been performed in the city since the 1790s, and for the majority of the city's history since the early 19th century, New Orleans has had a resident company regularly performing opera in addition to theaters hosting traveling performers and c...
     directed by Robert Lyall in a gala reopening of New Orleans' Mahalia Jackson
    Mahalia Jackson

    Mahalia Jackson was an United States gospel music singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre, and is the first "Queen of Gospel Music"....
     Theatre for the Performing Arts. The master of ceremonies
    Master of Ceremonies

    A Master or Mistress of Ceremonies or MC , sometimes called a comp?re or an MJ for "microphone jockey," is the Host of an official public or private staged event or other performance....
     was New Orleans native Patricia Clarkson
    Patricia Clarkson

    Patricia Davies Clarkson is an American Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning actress....
    .


See also

  • List of recordings by Plácido Domingo
  • The Three Tenors
    The Three Tenors

    The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish vocalists Pl?cido Domingo and Jos? Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti who sang as a consort under this banner during the 1990s and early 2000s....
  • Christmas in Vienna I
    Christmas in Vienna

    Christmas in Vienna is a 1993 album released by United States soul music singer Diana Ross, and Spanish people tenors Pl?cido Domingo and Jos? Carreras for the Sony Classical label....
    , II
    Christmas in Vienna II

    Christmas in Vienna II is a 1994 album released by Dionne Warwick and Spain tenor Pl?cido Domingo for the Sony Classical label.The album was recorded live on December 21, 1993 at Hofburg Palace, Vienna with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Children's Choir under the direction of maestro Vjekoslav ?utej ....
    , III
    Christmas in Vienna III

    Christmas in Vienna III is a 1995 Christmas album released by Spain opera tenor Pl?cido Domingo, France chanson and Popular music star Charles Aznavour, and Norway Crossover soprano Sissel Kyrkjeb? on the Sony Classical Record label....
    , and VI
    Christmas in Vienna VI

    Christmas in Vienna VI is the last in a series of Christmas albums recorded in Vienna with Spanish tenor Pl?cido Domingo. Recorded in December 1998, it also includes the French singer Patricia Kaas and the Mexican singer Alejandro Fern?ndez with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra directed by Steven Mercurio....
  • Domingo sings and conducts Tchaikovsky
    Domingo sings and conducts Tchaikovsky

    Domingo sings and conducts Tchaikovsky is an album by the Spanish tenor Pl?cido Domingo with the Philharmonia Orchestra.Track listing...
  • Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
    Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

    The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962....
Category:Plácido Domingo albums


External links

  • at the Kennedy Center
    John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

    The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C....
  • from YouTube.com
  • detailing his switch to baritone.