Showing posts with label Placido Domingo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Placido Domingo. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2010

Marcelo speaks: Plácido should free the way. He has already paid off his mortgage


-Hace unas semanas «The New York Times» le dedicaba un reportaje a Plácido Domingo sobre su futuro sucesor. ¿Ve algún nombre para recoger su testigo?

-Estamos hablando de uno de los artistas más grandes que merece todo todo mi respeto, pero yo sí que creo que hay vida después de Plácido Domingo. Mire, ahí está Kauffman, por ejemplo. Lo que sucede es que él está amparado por los medios, que le sirven como altavoz, está todos los días en prensa, radio y televisión, es agotador y no deja el camino libre a otros, a los que empiezan y a los ya estamos. Es tenor, director de orquesta, intendente y ahora también barítono, lo que implica que está demasiado involucrado en todo. Pavarotti, por ejemplo, era mi ídolo. No creo, por otra parte, que sea un tabú hablar de Plácido Domingo, un artista al que admiro y respeto como tenor y por todo lo que ha dado a la ópera. ¿No decían que después de Caruso la ópera estaba muerta? Creo que el único record que le falta a Plácido es que no haya nadie que le pueda sustituir.

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A few weeks ago The New York Times dedicated and article to Plácido Domingo and his future successor. Do you see anybody who could take the batton?

-We are talking about one of the greatest artists who deserves all my respect, but of course I think that there is life after Pl
ácido Domingo. Look, there is Kaufmann for example. What happens is that he [Domingo] is protected by the media that he uses as his loudspeaker, he's everyday in the press, radio and television, it's exhausting and it doesn'n leave a free way for others, for those who begin and for those of us who are already here. He's a tenor, a conductor, a theatre intendant and now he is also a baritone, which means that he's over-involved in everything. Pavarotti, for example, was my idol. I don't think, on the other hand, that it's a taboo to speak of Plácido Domingo, an artist I admire and respect as a tenor and for everything he has given to opera. Didn't they say that after Caruso, opera was dead? I think that the only record that Plácido is yet to break is to be irreplaceable.

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Full, JUICY interview at La Razón! Marcelo Álvarez speaks also of Gerard Mortier ("I'm leaving for now but I will be back: he will leave in five years and I will be back"), Franco Zeffirelli ("We need people who can help us, not directors to destroy us"), Rolando Villazón and Giancarlo del Monaco.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Placi on Juandi


“Juan Diego no es el sucesor de Luciano Pavarotti porque él ya es un grande”, dijo el célebre tenor español a su llegada a nuestra capital."

"Juan Diego Flórez is not a successor to Luciano Pavarotti because he, is already one of the great."

These were the words of Plácido Domingo during a press conference at Lima, Perú, on occasion of the concert that Placidios will give in Lima tomorrow, September the 9th.

More on youtube




Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Placi: 40 years at the Arena di Verona


«L’Arena è per me un luogo particolare, mi è rimasta nel cuore e da quella sera ogni volta mi emoziona»

P.D.

With Nancy Fabiola Herrera as Carmen


With Teresa Romano as Desdemona

As Cyrano

Plácido Domingo first appeared at the Arena di Verona in 1969, as Calaf next to Birgit Nilsson´s Turandot.


La Cucinotta arrives at the Arena di Verona


An interview about the 40 years at the Arena


Curtain calls




The divine Birgit Nilsson and Placido, talking about their first Turandot at the Arena





Otello, Verona 24 July

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

125+40= A night to remember ***UpdateD***


Here are a few highlights of the lavish Gala
celebrating the 125 years of the Met and
Plácido's 40 years at the house.

Angela Gheorghiu singing Marguerite



Juan Diego Flórez in a splendid rendition of "La Donna é mobile"
(click to listen)

Dimitri Hvorostovsky singing "Ya vas lyublyu"
(Pikovaya Dama)


Plácido Domingo and Angela Gheorghiu in "Figlia, a tal nome io palpito"
from Simon Boccanegra



Natalie Dessay singing "Sempre Libera"


Plácido Domingo IS Otello ("Niun mi tema")



Renée Fleming, ecstatic in Marietta´s lied
("Glück, das mir verblieb")


Curtain calls

Marcelo Giordani & JDF at the post-Gala Dinner


Willem Dafoe, Robertino and Angela's bewbs

The NY Times have posted a couple of videos too!

Watch here La Fleming in Marietta's lied

and Plácido Domingo as Dick Johnson
(first appearance of Placi on stage, listen how the audience goes wild)



Photos (C) Ken Howard for the Met

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Placido habla


Plácido Domingo gave an interview to the Greek TV which was telecast last night. It's the first of a series of interviews of great personalities to journalist Thanassis Lalas.

Ecco the entire interview for my sexy readers. During the interview you can also watch various clips of Placi live.
(in english with subtitles in greek)

Part1



Part2



Part3



Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars...



Parsifal is soooo happy tonight! He spent the evening at the Panathinaikon Stadium watching the last rehearsal of Placido Domingo and K. Jenkins just before the tomorrow Gala. Placido was sooo kewwwl, even if the temperature was high (really high!), he mingled with the few lucky of us that got into the rehearsal, he signed autographs and made (many) photos with ussss humans! The foto you see above is cropped. The original photo includes Parsifalito on the left of Dios Placido. But the original photo is only for the very very fewwwww....

On Thursday you 'll have a full report with more pics and sound clips!