Special offer. Plácido Domingo. The Versailles Gala
Placido Domingo (baritone), Jennifer Rowley (soprano), Orchestre de l’Opera Royal, Laurent Campellone
A baritone now, the voice is not what it was; yet what the voice has lost in range is amply made up for by an artistry that has been honed for six decades. Even in his recital white tie and...
Special offer. Plácido Domingo. The Versailles Gala
Placido Domingo (baritone), Jennifer Rowley (soprano), Orchestre de l’Opera Royal, Laurent Campellone
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A baritone now, the voice is not what it was; yet what the voice has lost in range is amply made up for by an artistry that has been honed for six decades. Even in his recital white tie and...
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Placido Domingo has held a unique place in the history of opera for six decades. Eighty years young, this Madrilerio is a lion of the stage who is putting on a Gala for the Opera Royal du Château de Versailles worthy of the French public's great admiration for him. Accompanied by the Orchestra of the Opera Royal under the direction of Laurent Campellone, in a duet with the dazzling Jennifer Rowley, Placido Domingo performs at Versailles as a living legend, for an unforgettable evening.
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February 2023
A baritone now, the voice is not what it was; yet what the voice has lost in range is amply made up for by an artistry that has been honed for six decades. Even in his recital white tie and tails Domingo is a theatre animal.
February 2023
Despite the vocal inequalities, his dramatic artistry surfaces in the Verdi duets, where di Luna’s insistent, hectoring sexuality is finely captured, and he charts Germont père’s growing awareness of Violetta’s moral worth with characteristic subtlety.
