Plácido Domingo: Verskil tussen weergawes

'''José Plácido Domingo Embil''' ([[Spaans]]e uitspraak: xoˈse ˈplaθiðo ðoˈmiŋɡo emˈbil, gebore op [[21 Januarie]] [[1941]])<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9030872/Placido-Domingo ''Encyclopædia Britannica''], [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/placido-domingo/ ''Encyclopedia of World Biography'', Thomson Gale, 2006], [http://www.answers.com/topic/pl-cido-domingo ''The Concise Grove Dictionary of Music'', Oxford University Press, 1994], Warrack, J. en West, E. ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', OUP, 1992 gee almal die datum van '''1941''' aan as geboortedatum.</ref> is 'n [[Spanjaarde|Spaanse]] [[opera]]sanger, [[dirigent]] en kunsteadministrateur. Hy het reeds [[Diskografie van Plácido Domingo|meer as 'n honderd volledige operas]] opgeneem en is bekend vir sy veelsydigheid en vindingrykheid. Hy voer gereeld in van die mees glansryke operahuise in die wêreld op in [[Italiaans]], [[Frans]], [[Duits]], [[Spaans]] en [[Russies]]. Alhoewel hy grotendeels ''[[Spinto|lirico-spinto]]'' tenoorrolle gesing het, en veral gewild is om sy rolle as [[Tosca (opera)|Cavaradossi]], [[Die Verhale van Hoffmann|Hoffmann]], [[Carmen|Don José]], en [[Pagliacci|Canio]], het hy spoedig aanbeweeg na meer dramatiese rolle, en sodoende die mees aangeprysde ''Otello'' van sy generasie geword.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Macy|first1=Laura Williams|title=The Grove Book of Opera Singers|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195337655|pages=127–8}}</ref>{{sfn|Matheopoulos|Domingo|2003|p=19|ps=: "Otello is a dramatic part and Domingo a lirico spinto tenor. But from the beginning it was clear that this was an ideal role for him..."}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Michener|first1=Charles|title=Heppner Now Reigning Otello As Domingo Relinquishes Role|url=http://observer.com/2004/10/heppner-now-reigning-otello-as-domingo-relinquishes-role/|access-date=7 August 2015|newspaper=New York Observer|date=4 Oktober 2004}}</ref> In die vroeë 2010's het hy oorgeskakel van die [[tenoor]]repertorium na rolle vir baritonstem, mees opvallend diè van ''Simon Boccanegra''. Met ingang 2020 het Domingo reeds 151 verskillende rolle vertolk.<ref name="latimes.com">[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-gato-montes-opera-review-20190506-story.html Review: In his 151st role, Plácido Domingo plays the 'wild cat' as old lion]</ref><ref name="Domingo's 151st role">[http://operachaser.blogspot.com/2019/05/domingos-151st-role-accompanies.html Domingo's 151st role]</ref>

 

 

Hy [[dirigent|dirigeer]] toenemend operas en konserte en was vanaf 2017 tot 2019 algemene musiekdirekteur van die Los Angeles Opera in Kalifornië.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laopera.org/company/company-leadership/|title=Los Angeles Opera homepage, accessed 2017-07-01|access-date=2017-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410194015/https://www.laopera.org/company/company-leadership/|archive-date=2019-04-10|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hy was aanvanklik die artistieke direkteur en later algemene direkteur van die Washington National Opera van 1996 tot 2011. Hy was betrokke by verskeie humanitêre werk, sowel as die verlening van hulp aan jong operasangers. In die verband was hy die stigter en organiseerder van die internasionale sangkompetisie ''Operalia''.