Plácido Domingo and Jose Carreras have cancelled this month’s Legends Together Again tour in Australia.
‘Unforseen circumstances’ are to blame.
New dates have been announced for November for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Two other venues – Perth and Adelaide – are cancelled.
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Domingo is ill with severe bronchitis. He posted on X yesterday.Romania has also been cancelled.
I think the main issue would be that Domingo is voiceless since a quarter of a century… not that he has “severe bronchitis”
Just very unkind comment.
She should have said the past 13 years or so. That would have been accurate.
There are new dates for most of the cancelled venues.
The nursing home tour? It’s time for the boys to hang it up, they can blame solow vibrato and pitch.
I miss Pavarotti and Salvatore Licitra, two great Italian tenors who died too young.
Licitra nowhere near the same league (also compared to the other two in their long ago primes).
Usual reason for these type of cancellations is because ticket sales are so poor. Perth and Adelaide are dropped altogether as being unsalvageable whilst the three larger cities are allowed a further eight months to sell more tickets. Let’s see.
They should try Hobart. It’s still 1998 down there …
Ha ha! Here is the redoubtable Dame Edna Everage arriving in Tasmania for a tour in 1979 (and like an old pro, shamelessly aware of the camera lens)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-23/dame-ednas-hilarious-interview-with-an-abc-journalist-in-1979/102257694
Good old Adelaide. A true cultural centre that knows what it’s about.
The question anyone should be asking is: How/Why is this “artistic” (those are scare quotes) fraud allowed to happen in the first place?
Because people are prepared to pay for it?
In case anyone needs a refresher on the truly great Carerras, back when…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxISOPVZpI
Yes, he was glorious in his prime!! His talent waned all too soon! Thanks for the reminder!
I have to think of the Flotsam & Jetsam song: “Aberdeen and Perth want their money back!”
Domingo is no more a ténor.
Or an adequate vocalist of any voice type.
Oh yes he is. One does not become a baritone because one can no longer sing tenor roles. Sorry.
Why would anyone want to hear either of them at this point?
Mama mia, these guys must be as ancient as the Rollling Stones.
They should be afraid, very afraid. Remember Tony Hancock and David Whitfield.
I was surprised to see Perth and Adelaide included in the original tour. Then very much at the height of his fame Domingo gave a solo concert in Perth in the early 1990s and tickets then did not sell at all well. I believe the same was true in Adelaide on the same tour.
It would be fair for these gents to stop this kind of shows out of respect for their legacy and the audiences who pay idiotic high prices for an evening of misplaced nostalgia.
Both are comparatively small and geographically isolated cities, but Adelaide has a much greater interest in opera etc.; after all they produced a more than creditable Ring cycle some years back. In two years as a student in Adelaide in the 1970s, I got to see Britten and Pears (at the Festival), Ravi Shankar, Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Not a bad effort.
Face it. He’s old. Best days ( and there were some great ones) are behind him.