Magic Freyer
I still remember, and some of it quite vividly, what it was like to experience Achim Freyer‘s intense and groundbreaking Ring production all these years later.
Plácido Domingo
218 pieces since 2006 — in 51 roles, at 24 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
218
pieces
51
roles
24
companies
21
years
By role
Calaf 3
Gianni Schicchi 3
Lohengrin 3
Rodolfo 2
Pinkerton 2
Francesco Foscari 2
Don Carlos 2
Paolo 2
Dick Johnson 2
Otello 2
Hoffmann 2
Neptune 2
Alfredo 2
Loris 2
Nabucco 2
Manrico 2
Radamès 1
Papa Germont 1
Miller 1
Pollione 1
Juanillo 1
Ramerrez 1
Riccardo Percy 1
Roberto Devereux 1
Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa 1
Samson 1
Siegmund 1
Simon Boccanegra 1
Stiffelio 1
Turiddu 1
Turiddu/Canio 1
Devereux 1
Alvaro 1
Bajazet 1
Carlo 1
Cavaradossi 1
Chénier 1
Count di Luna 1
Count Maurizio 1
Cyrano 1
Des Grieux 1
Maurizio 1
Don Carlo 1
Edgardo 1
Enzo 1
Gérard; Athanaël 1
Germont Père 1
Giuliano 1
Gustavo 1
Il conte di Luna 1
Macbeth 1
By company
Metropolitan Opera 39
LA Opera 8
Los Angeles Opera 5
New York City Opera 4
San Francisco Opera 3
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 3
Vienna State Opera 3
La Scala 3
American Opera Society 2
Royal Opera House 2
Opera Orchestra of New York 2
Washington National Opera 2
Vienna Staatsoper 1
Teatro Colón 1
Teatro alla Scala 1
Wiener Staatsoper 1
Staatsoper Hamburg 1
Staatsoper 1
Salzburger Festspiele 1
RCA 1
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana 1
Carnegie Hall 1
Berliner Staatsoper im Schillertheater 1
Berlin Staatsoper 1
8 pieces as LA Opera — stats above show all coverage for Plácido Domingo.
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What the cat dragged in
As you can imagine, oaths are sworn, curses are flung with avidity, and a mysterious shepherd sings a tune of foreboding from a distant mountain gorge just when you’d expect it.
Marquis name
For opening night of the new LA Opera season Placido Domingo decided to return to one of his best Verdi showcases, Don Carlo, only this time as the baritone, Rodrigo the Marquis di Posa, instead of the title character.
Babylon revisited
What if you could time travel back to the first run of Giuseppe Verdi’s first great success Nabucco?
Diver gent
Georges Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles has been knocking steadily at the door of the standard repertoire now in this country for quite some time.
Tales that witness madness
Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann has had a bumpy ride to its pride of position in the current French repertoire.
Comeback thane
The characters get right down to work immediately with their foul deeds.
LA thinks pink
Vocal glamour in abundance highlighted the opening performance of LA Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia on November 29 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, with much buzz attendant on the company debuts of Rossini experts Juan Diego Flórez and Joyce DiDonato. Adding excitement was the Figaro of Nathan Gunn, who played with Errol Flynn panache, and […]