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Placido Domingo
Birth at
21 January 1941
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Jose Placido Domingo Embil, opera singer, was born on January 21, 1941 in Madrid, Spain. The full name of the tenor is Jose Placido Domingo Embiel. When the boy was 8 years old, his parents moved to Mexico, and with them and Placido Domingo. Creative activity of the singer began in 1958 with participation in the group of Cesar Costa, and later cooperates with the collective Los Black Jeans. In Mexico City, at the Conservatory of Music, Placido studied conducting and piano. Plácido's first performance
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Jose Placido Domingo Embil, opera singer, was born on January 21, 1941 in Madrid, Spain. The full name of the tenor is Jose Placido Domingo Embiel.
When the boy was 8 years old, his parents moved to Mexico, and with them and Placido Domingo. Creative activity of the singer began in 1958 with participation in the group of Cesar Costa, and later cooperates with the collective Los Black Jeans. In Mexico City, at the Conservatory of Music, Placido studied conducting and piano.
Plácido's first performance took place on May 12, 1959, on the stage of the Guardalajar Theatre. There he sang a minor part in the opera Teatro Degollado. Domingo participated in the performance of the work “Dialogues of Carmelites”, “Rigoletti” and others. Alfredo in the opera La Travita is Plácido Domingo's first major role. Many opera house connoisseurs came to listen to him.
In the 1960s, Domingo sang in Tel Aviv on the stage of the Israeli National Opera. There the singer performed 12 parts and took part in more than 200 productions. Domingo Placido, whose songs are distinguished by special pressure and dynamism, repeatedly gave concerts with two other tenors.
Luciano Pavarotti and
Jose Carreras . Their first joint performance took place in July 1990 during the opening of the World Cup in Rome. Similar concerts were held in Los Angeles (1994), Paris (1998) and Yokohama (2002). In 2006, during the World Cup in Berlin, Plácido Domingo performed, which was a great success. Concerts of Plácido Domingo were held several times in Moscow.
The importance of the creative contribution of the great tenor is confirmed by many awards. Among them are the Order of Merit to the Italian Republic, which the singer received in 1991, as well as the Birgit Nilsson Award, first awarded to Plácido Domingo in February 2009, for his efforts to develop the theater, Domingo is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.