Word: domingo
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...LUIS RODRÍGUEZ VILLANCAÑAS Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Essex any opera director might be tempted to swap his Ring cycle for. Bending to one knee in supplication, baring his chest with soldierly bravado, singing with graceful, silvery mastery, Domingo made their touching Act I duet a true meeting of romantic equals...
...Brave Bull. Domingo, who was born in Madrid in 1941, once hoped to become a matador when he grew up. By the time he fought his first bull, though, he was 14 and living with his parents in Mexico City. It was in a small ring where young bulls were tested for bravery. The one selected for Placido was very brave-braver, in fact, than Placido, who was badly battered; then and there he gave up the corrida for a career in music...
...later he made his operatic debut in Traviata with Mexico's National Opera. That same year he sang opposite Joan Sutherland in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Dallas Civic Opera. Then came an offer from the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv. Nearly 300 performances later, Rudel signed Domingo and gave him the title role in Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at the February 1966 opening of the company's new home in Lincoln Center. Domingo...
...understand the opera until he accepts the fact that vocalism -good vocalism, that is-is the coagulant that binds everything and everybody together: fantasy and truth, performers and audience, hero and heroine. Says Domingo: "The voice must say I love you. Love for a heroine or hatred for a villain must be portrayed through the public." Domingo has the voice. He is acquiring a public ready and willing to jostle its way into the opera any night he chooses to sing...