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Excelentisimo Senor
Placido Domingo
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Domingo in June 2019
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Birth name
| Jose Placido Domingo Embil
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Born
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1941-01-21
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21 January 1941
(age 83)
Madrid
, Spain
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Occupation(s)
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Years active
| 1957?present
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Placido Domingo
KBE
(born 21 January 1941) is an
Spanish
operatic
tenor
and
conductor
. He is often regarded as one of the leading tenors of his generation.
Born
Jose Placido Domingo Embil
in
Madrid
, Spain, the son of singers who later moved to
Mexico
, where he made his vocal study. He began his career as a
baritone
singing in
operettas
but quickly retrained as a tenor. He made his official operatic debut in
Mexico City
in 1961, as Alfredo in
La traviata
.
He sang in
Tel Aviv
from 1962 to 1965 in a wide variety of roles often in Hebrew. He made his American debut at the New York City Opera in 1965, and at the
Metropolitan Opera
in 1968. This was followed by
La Scala
in Milan (1969), the
Royal Opera House
in London (1971), the
Paris Opera
(1973), and most of the great opera houses of the world.
Although mostly associated with the Italian and French repertoire, he has in recent years sung several
Wagner
roles, and turned to conducting. He is the General Director of the Washington National Opera and the Los Angeles Opera.
He was one of "The Three Tenors", alongside
Luciano Pavarotti
and
Jose Carreras
, and got 1.5 million dollars each time they sang.
In August 2019, Domingo was accused by nine women of
sexual harassment
.
[1]
In March 2020, Dominago was diagnosed with
COVID-19
and hospitalized in
Mexico
.
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