Plácido Domingo
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José Plácido Domingo Embil is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in I
Domingo in June 2019
Seventeen-year-old Plácido Domingo as the tenor Rafael the bullfighter in El gato montés with Rosa Maria Montes (Mexico City, 1958)
Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, where Domingo began his operatic career
Domingo made his debut in Verdi's Otello at Bellas Artes in the comprimario rôle of Cassio in 1962
Plácido Domingo Ferrer
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Plácido Domingo Ferrer was a Spanish zarzuela baritone and father of popular operatic tenor Plácido Domingo. Half Catalan and half Aragonese, he grew up and made his early career in Zaragoza, the capi
Plácido Domingo
…Sofia, Verona, Versailles, Vienna and Zurich. Plácido Domingo was born on 21 January 1941 in the Retiro district of Madrid, Spain, to Pepita Embil and Plácido Domingo Ferrer. His mother recalled that she and her husband knew he would be a musician from the age of five, due to his ability to hum complex music from a zarzuela…
Plácido Domingo Ferrer (right) with composer Federico Moreno Torroba backstage at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, 1946
His wife, Pepita Embil, as a choral soloist in France in June 1939, less than a year before they married
The Teatro Principal de Zaragoza, where Domingo often performed