DVD Video, Plácido Domingo (tenor)
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Verdi: Nabucco
Plácido Domingo (Nabucco), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille), Andrea Caré (Ismaele), Marianna Pizzolato (Fenena) & Vitalij Kowaljow (Zaccaria)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Nicola Luisotti (conductor) & Daniele Abbado (director)
Luisotti is able to shape the fluency that Antonio Pappano's orchestra and Renato Balsadonna's chorus have acquired in Verdi into a notably well-paced reading...This Sony Classical release offers... — More…
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Plácido Domingo (Chevalier), Thomas Allen (Lescaut), Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut), Royal Opera House, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Menotti: Goya
Plácido Domingo (Goya), Michelle Breedt (Duchess of Alba), Iride Martinez (Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain) & Christian Gerhaher (Martin Zapater)
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Emmanuel Villaume (conductor) & Kasper Bech Holten (stage director)
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedTeresa Stratas (Violetta), Plácido Domingo (Alfredo), Cornell MacNeil (Giorgio Germont)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
Severely cut and rearranged, Zeffirelli's famous film suffocates under its own opulence; but Parisian and Provencal locations, Levine's rich conducting, Domingo and Stratas remain rewarding. — More…
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Plácido Domingo (Riccardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Renato), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), William Elvin (Silvano), Gwynne Howell (Samuele), Paul Hudson (Tom), Francis Egerton (Un Giudice), John Carr (Un servo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,...
Abbado motivates this traditional Otto Schenk staging using the Swedish setting. Domingo is a marvellously vivid Gustavo, Cappuccilli an implacable Anckarström, while Grist steals the soprano... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, DVD of the Month
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Verdi: Luisa Miller
Renata Scotto (Luisa), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Sherrill Milnes (Miller), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Walter), James Morris (Wurm), Jean Kraft (Federica), Ariel Bybee (Laura), Dale Caldwell (Contadino)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
Levine's version of Luisa Miller consistently demonstrates his Verdian mastery, and not just in the best-known masterpieces...Not only in Levine's conducting but also in the sets and costumes... — More…
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Great Opera Arias
A Gala Concert From The Royal Opera House
Plácido Domingo, Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Asher Fisch
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Special offer. Verdi: I Due Foscari
Plácido Domingo (Francesco Foscari), Francesco Meli (Jacopo Foscari) & Maria Agresta (Lucrezia Contarini), Maurizio Muraro (Jacopo Loredano), Samuel Sakker (Barbarigo), Rachel Kelly (Pisana), Lee Hickenbottom (Fante), Dominic Barrand (Servant)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal...
Domingo’s vital engagement in a role in which signs of his vocal age work to his advantage makes his central contribution a considerable achievement — More…
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
Plácido Domingo (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Robin Leggate (Cassio), Ramon Remedios (Rodrigo), Mark Beesley (Lodovico), Roderick Earle (Montano), Claire Powell (Emilia)
The Royal Opera & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Georg Solti
Sergei Leiferkus's dark Russian tone… suits Iago down to the ground. Kiri Te Kanawa's limpid tone makes her a near-ideal Desdemona… Plácido Domingo… is noble and heroic. — More…
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Special offer. Verdi: I Due Foscari
Plácido Domingo (Francesco Foscari), Francesco Meli (Jacopo Foscari), Anna Pirozzi (Lucrezia Contarini), Chiara Isotton (Pisana), Andrea Concetti (Jacopo Loredano), Edoardo Milletti (Barbarigo)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Michele Mariotti, Alvis Hermanis (dir.)
Even if he still sounds like a tenor singing in his lower range rather than a true baritone, Doming’s Artistic commitment remains exceptional, and vocally this is a remarkable achievement at... — More…
