The talent and voice are gifts that deserve to be shared, thinks the Spanish tenor Placido Domingo , who for more than 50 years has been dedicated to delight audiences with the drama and beauty feature his voice.
“A balanced dramatic artist who sings” said ever Italian director Franco Zeffirelli also referring to the conductor, who on Thursday 75 years and preparing to be a protagonist in the Opera Ball in Vienna, on 4 February.
According to information from the Spanish newspaper ABC will be the passages of the operetta “The Merry Widow” of the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár (1870-1948); “I’m off to Chez Maxim’s” and “Silent Lips”, among others, the pieces that interpret the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Spanish at the opening gala.
According to biographical data available on their official website, Domingo was born on January 21, 1941, in Madrid, Spain, son of Placido Domingo Ferrer (1907-1987) and Pepita Embil (1918-1994), two outstanding singers of zarzuela with whom he lived in Mexico since 1950.
A year earlier they had come to this country where founded his own theater company, in which the small Placido, then eight, begin their piano and music theory lessons , and then be accepted into the National Conservatory with only 14 years.
They say that at the age of 16, married for the first time and had her first child Jose, from which is engaged in various activities in the world of music and theater to provide for his family, before turning to the opera professionally. During his youth, Sunday accompanied singers in fine bars and not so fine city, he played piano for a ballet company even made some minor television appearances until his hearing at the Academy Opera Mexico as a baritone, made him realize that his voice could well be tenor.
His career as a performer began with small roles as “Borse” in “Rigoletto” by Giuseppe Verdi However, two years later obtained his first major as “Alfredo” in “La traviata”, debuting in Monterrey adds biografiasyvidas.com website.
So begin the successful life of one of the artists most important and renowned opera in the twentieth century, especially for its great French repertoire and Italians, playing works as “Carmen”, “Samson and Dalila”, “Don Carlo”, “Tosca” and especially remembered the “Otello”.
To date, Placido Domingo has around three thousand 700 presentations 145 roles in addition to having conducted more than 500 pieces in theaters almost all the capitals of the world, says its official website.
It has been included in the Guinness records by the size of their repertoire and the s appearances on stage along with fellow Jose Carrera and Luciano Pavarotti are considered one of the biggest hits of opera.
Considered as one of the greatest tenors of his generation, Sunday is also dedicated to the management administrative opera, playing an essential role in the development of regional companies towards international recognition, first as Director General at the National Opera of Washington and now in the same position of the Opera of Los Angeles.
The voice that possesses it has worthy of numerous awards among which the Prince of Asturias Arts Award (1991), Order of the British Empire (2002) Commander of the French Legion of Honor ( . 2002)
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(With information from Notimex )
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