Placido Domingo gets Mozart in the Jungle role

Placido Domingo gets Mozart in the Jungle role

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norman lebrecht

July 20, 2016

He just couldn’t say no, he gushes to the New York Times.

Mr. Domingo, who moved to Mexico as a child and maintains strong ties there, said that he was drawn partly by the chance to appear with Mr. García Bernal, a Mexican actor whose career he has followed since the film “Y Tu Mamá También” more than a decade ago, and partly because he was intrigued by a new series that shines a light on the field.

So Mr. Domingo, who remains one of the hardest workers in opera, recorded his vocals for the duet, “Là ci darem la mano,” this month at a midnight session at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, right after finishing a performance there in the title role of Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra.” (The soprano part, which Ms. Bellucci, who is playing a fiery diva known as La Fiamma, lip-synced to, was recorded in San Francisco by the rising star Ana María Martínez.)

Could be the series is running out of steam.

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Comments

  • Stefan Treddel says:

    And we are sure that Ana María Martínez is still a rising star? How well informed…

  • Respect says:

    It’s amazing that cliche like that extends past her fiftieth birthday. Blame her pr people, not Norman.

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