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DVD Video, Plácido Domingo (tenor)
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Carlos Kleiber: Traces to Nowhere
RecommendedA Film by Eric Schulz
with Plácido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk, Veronika Kleiber, Michael Gielen & Manfred Honeck…
Carlos Kleiber
Traces has Veronika Kleiber, the conductor's sister - a shrewd, loving and highly articulate woman who has many stories and comments that help to bring Kleiber to vibrant life. So, too, does... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - DVD Documentary
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Special offer. The Searchers of the Grail
Parsifal | Indiana Jones | Adolf Hitler
Plácido Domingo (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Kirov Orchestra and Choir, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Tony Palmer (director)
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Music in the Air
A History of Classical Music on Television
Featuring Glenn Gould, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Anna Netrebko, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Pierre Boulez, Sergiu Celibidache, Francis Poulenc, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Welser-Möst
Perhaps the more interesting television is found in the rarer moments of observation: of Stravinsky using facial expressions to conduct his Petrushka, or Yan Pascal Tortelier totally immersing... —
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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... —
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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: 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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, DVD of the Month
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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. —
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Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Opera Recording
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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... —
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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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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 —
