Plácido Domingo
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2010s
Teatro alla Scala
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2019
In Performance: Singing at Teatro alla Scala
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2010s
Greg Gorman
Highlights
2018
In Performance: Domingo as Conductor
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2010s
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19 May 2017
50 Years of Singing in Vienna
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2010s
Highlights Press
2012
Plácido Domingo is named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
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2010s
Ruben Martin
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2011
Honorary chairmanship of IFPI
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2010s
Chad Batka
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2010
Domingo becomes president of Europa Nostra
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2000s
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13 October 2009
Winning the inaugural Birgit Nilsson Prize
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2000s
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2009
The move from tenor to baritone
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2000s
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2000
Plácido Domingo is made a Kennedy Center Honoree
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1990s
Robert Millard
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1996
Domingo takes the lead at Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera
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1990s
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1993
Operalia is born
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1990s
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June 1992
Other solo appearances at the Olympics and World Cups
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1990s
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1991
Domingo honored with Premio Príncipe de Asturias
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1990s
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1990
The Three Tenors perform at the World Cup in Rome
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1980s
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1986
Domingo creates the role of Goya, a part written specifically for him by Giancarlo Menotti
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1980s
Esparta Palma
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19 September 1985
September 19, 1985: A disaster in Mexico
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1980s
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1982
Newsweek crowns Domingo "The King of Opera"
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1980s
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1982
Following his film debut in Madama Butterfly, Plácido stars in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1982 cinema version of La traviata
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1980s
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October 1982
Domingo has benefit concert at the Vatican and audience with Pope John Paul II
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1970s
Dutch National Archives / Spaarnestad Photo
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1976
Working with Legends: Herbert von Karajan
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1970s
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1975
September 28, 1975, remains a historic date for Domingo: On this day, in Hamburg, he gives his first performance as Otello
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1970s
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1973
Plácido's Parisian debut
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1970s
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October 1973
While singing at the Met, Domingo makes his debut as an opera conductor with New York City Opera
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1970s
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1972
The first half of 1972 is one of the busiest periods in Plácido’s singing career: 9 debuts, 19 operas, 4 concerts
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1970s
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1971
Working with Legends: Joan Sutherland and Pablo Casals
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1970s
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1971
Plácido's Covent Garden debut, and onward
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1970s
Fayer
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14 May 1970
An even more emotional experience for Domingo in his hometown debut
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1960s
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27 July 1969
Domingo makes his debut in Italy, the land where opera was born
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1960s
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28 September 1968
Plácido Domingo's Metropolitan Opera debut
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1960s
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January 1967
Rolf Liebermann, head of the Hamburg Opera, invites Domingo to perform in Tosca in January 1967 — his European debut
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1960s
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June 1965
International beginnings: The Domingos move from Israel to the United States
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1960s
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1 August 1962
Domingo marries Marta Ornelas; the couple moves to Israel
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1950s
1959
In Performance: Singing the Music of Verdi
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1940s
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1946
All of Domingo’s early musical memories are tied in with the zarzuela
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1940s
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1946
The Domingos move to Mexico which launches Plácido's conservatory years
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1940s
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1946
Over the following four years, Domingo gains early experiences in numerous aspects of music and theatre
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1940s
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1941
Plácido Domingo was born in the Barrio de Salamanca, a typical Madrid neighborhood, on January 21, 1941
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