DVD Video, Plácido Domingo (tenor)
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Poplavskaya (Amelia Grimaldi/Maria Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacope Fiesco), Jonathan Summers (Paolo Albiani), Lukas Jakobski (Pietro)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
The result is far more than a vanity project...overall [Domingo] makes a remarkably moving and complex creation out of it...Summers is worn but malevolent in his sharply etched portrayal of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, DVD of the Month
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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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Arena Di Verona
Luca Salsi (baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Yusif Eyvazov, Dolora Zajick, Carlos Álvarez (baritone), Alex Esposito, Maria Jose Siri, Irina Lungu, Rafal Siwek, Saimir Pirgu (tenor), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Anna, Pirozzi, Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Marko Mimica, Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of the Arena...
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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…
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Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Opera Recording
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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... — More…
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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. 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... — More…
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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…
