Domingo Seouls out
NewsSouth Korea is still crazy for the errant singer.
We hear that ‘Placido Domingo Live in Busan 2022,’ staged on June 26 in Busan, South Korea, sold all 6,500 seats within two minutes of going on sale online.
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So he’s back into busaness.
I think it is wonderful. I just don’t want to be there
Better to check such information… 6500 seats in 2 minutes…
Plenty of tickets are AVAILABLE on the ticket vendors website:
http://m.ticketlink.co.kr/help/notice/54641?null
There’s only one thing that could end the PD’s career. A nuclear war that would annihilate the potential audiences – because that Domingo himself would survive is hardly debatable
For the 6500, it’s all about being associated with a brand. And: Perhaps our western moralizing about Domingo’s alleged actions get lost in translation.
But if you offered 6500 seats anywhere, I bet you’d sell them.
Arguably, the Big D still entertains a crowd. And it is about the music, isn’t it?
Anyway, people have short memories, and they have perhaps OD’d on self-righteousness brought to bear on a plethora of topics.
In an age of global creeps stressing everyone out, like Trump, Rocket Man, Cosby, Putin, Xi, the tenor comes off comparatively well.
I can understand Domingo’s desire to remain in the limelight, but unlike Lauri-Volpi still hitting high Bs and almost falling over in his 80s, the Spanish tenor’s attempts at baritone repertoire are, despite his extraordinary musicality, just embarrassing. The only way farewell appearances could work for the next 15 years is if he sings Neapolitan songs and Zarazuelas transposed down a major third… at least there will be a vague souvenir of the miracle he was.
Korean has pretty tough laws around sexual harassment. I don’t know about their enforcement but Domingo may want to keep that in mind before traveling there.
You are assuming he was guilty. I doubt he was.
This is wonderful news. This is where he belongs – venue with amplification, mic in hand, regaling the audience with ‘O sole mio’s and the like, never mind in what key. Just keep out of opera performances, Placido, and it’s win-win for everybody. And stop disseminating hyperbolic news à la Fox News sandwiched in between liposuction ads, you don’t need them to bolster ticket sales. There are more people prepared to part with good money for an evening of ‘O sole mio’s in a venue known to them from pop concerts or sports events, than people prepared to shed money for an opera performance in a theater they’ve seen just from the outside, if at all. (I am assuming the venue isn’t a real theater, but you never know in South Korea.) Your pop concerts will sell eventually, don’t worry. There’s comfort in a familiar venue, and safety in numbers. This is why Arena di Verona sells – you can go in with your overpriced pizza in a cardboard box, cake, bottle of wine, can of beer, and two screaming toddlers, and nobody bats an eyelash.
Placido, may I suggest a useful trick? If you cast your mind back a few decades, I’m sure you will remember Big P teaming up with pop stars in concerts in the last decades of his career when he was way past, well, almost everything. This trick bolsters up ticket sales like nothing else could. For the public there’s comfort in a familiar venue, safety in numbers, _and_ you get the pop singer’s fans.
He has sold out for a number of other performances and the one I attended in Versailles on April 2 was packed to the rafters. Plenty of Americans there as well.