Plácido Domingo
Birthday: 1941-01-21
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Biography: Although born in Madrid, Spain, Placido Domingo spent a major portion of his life living in Mexico City where he graduated from the Mexico City Conservatory. His first operatic performance was in a staging of La Traviata in Monterrey playing Alfredo. He was then a Tenor for the Israel National Opera and subsequently moved to Europe.
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The Transformation of the World Into Music
This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It de...
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Moulin Rouge!
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...
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Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vinta...
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Helene Fischer - Weihnachten - Live aus der Hofburg Wien
This concert is a wish come true for Helene Fischer: the singer presents her personal selection of G...
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Macbeth
Giuseppe Verdi's powerful opera Macbeth sees a barnstorming staging by legendary stage director Harr...
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Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
Waltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal account ...
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Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca
Performed in the actual Roman settings described in the libretto. Moreover, the scenes take place at...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's...
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by ...
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Giuseppe Verdi - I due Foscari
In his 'new life' as a baritone, Placido Domingo has triumphed in the role of Francesco Foscari in L...
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The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994
It's not opera; it's not a pop concert; it's not Broadway. It's all of these and none of them. Once ...
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La traviata
This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800...
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The Three Tenors Christmas
The Three Tenors capture the joy and spirit of the season with their first ever Christmas concert, l...
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The Original Three Tenors Concert
The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the It...
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Mariinsky Theatre
A look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian tradition...
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The First Emperor
The incomparable Plácido Domingo began a new chapter in his legendary Met career when he created the...
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Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...
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Mariachi: The Spirit of Mexico
For ten days each year during the International Mariachi Festival in Guadalahara, more than 500 mari...
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Cavalleria rusticana
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
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Il Volo: Notte Magica - A Tribute To The Three Tenors 2016
The fourth live album by Italian operatic pop trio Il Volo, with the participation of Plácido Doming...
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Verdi: Otello
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carryi...
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Christmas in Vienna
Christmas in Vienna is a 1993 concert by American soul singer Diana Ross, and Spanish tenors Plácido...
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Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffman
Oscar-wining director John Schlesinger orchestrated this filmed recording of composer Jacques Offenb...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem
The premiere of Requiem, Andrew Lloyd Webber's pivotal and most personal of compositions took place ...
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Amor, vida de mi vida: Zarzuelas
The many passionate, fiery or lyrical vocal pieces of Spanish zarzuela have continued to thrive in c...
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The Book of Life
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and...
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Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber
A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with P...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...
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Il Trovatore - Verdi
The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curs...
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Turandot
The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in...
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Rigoletto
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann
In Luther's beer-cellar, lusty singing extols the virtues of beer and wine. For this evening, the Mu...
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Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
'Ol' Blue Eyes' eightieth birthday celebration; star-studded entertainment, tributes by a diverse co...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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The Three Tenors: From Caracalla To The World
Billions watched as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and José Carreras performed for the first tim...
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Plácido Domingo Gala
Half a century ago, Plácido Domingo made his debut at the Arena di Verona: on 16 July 1969 he sang t...
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Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his...
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Aida
AIDA, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Ra...
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Carmen
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
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Carmen
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...
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Madama Butterfly
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...
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Samson et Dalila
While the rest of the Hebrews bewail their fate, Samson alone trusts in God's promise of liberty. Ab...
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...
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Great Tenor Performances
Great Tenor Performances outbids the famous Three Tenors by putting a dozen tenors (including the bi...
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Samson et Dalila
Elijah Moshinsky's production of Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila", recorded live at the Metropolitan...
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Otello
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
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Meyerbeer: L'Africaine
This was a 1988 revival of a 1971 production that teamed Domingo (Vasco da Gama) and Verrett (Selika...
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Tosca
Opera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of film tr...
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Das Waldbühnen-Konzert
Sparks fly in this video of the all-star concert from Berlin's equivalent of the Hollywood Bowl in J...
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The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
Includes the complete concert from Petra, Jordan, recorded on October 12, 2008, which would have bee...
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Otello
Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great ac...
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Francesca da Rimini
Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera Orchest...
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La Gioconda
Recorded live at the Vienna State Opera, Placido Domingo and Eva Marton star in a sumptuous recordin...
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Andrea Chénier
Live from ROH 1985. Giordano's Andrea Chenier is one of the greatest of verismo operas, full of hear...
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Il Trovatore
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this production of Verdi's opera starring Anna...
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Fedora
Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him,...
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Manon Lescaut
"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...
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Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac
While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfan...
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Karajan's Magic and Myth
Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert vo...
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Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration
Journey to the Teatro del Silenzio (Theater of Silence), Lajatico, where once-in-a-lifetime performa...
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Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish ...
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Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
Puccini's Il Tabarro & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; Pavarotti and Domingo star in MET 1994-1995 seas...
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Verdi Nabucco
NABUCCO may be Verdi's first masterpiece, and not just because of that amazing Chorus of Hebrews whi...
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Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
This production from Covent Garden is set in Stockholm, and not Boston. With Reri Grist (Oscar), Pla...
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In Concert at The Met
In Concert at the Met (DVD) - Highlights Five of the Met's greatest stars - Price, Horne, Troyanos, ...
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Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's penultimate opera is based on a play by David Belasco set at the he...
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Don Carlo
Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- go...
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Verdi Ernani
It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones...
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Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we ha...
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Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
Verdi - Un ballo in maschera / Domingo · Barstow · Quivar · Jo · Nucci · Rydl · Chaignaud · Wiener P...
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The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
A contemporary take on the 17th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy bring...
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Il Trovatore
The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy bu...
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Carmen
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
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Christmas In Vienna VI
Christmas in Vienna VI is the next installment in a series of Christmas concerts recorded in Vienna ...
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A Gala Christmas in Vienna
Plácido Domingo, Sarah Brightman, Helmut Lotti and Riccardo Cocciante interpret traditional, Europea...
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Pagliacci
The story is set in southern Italy and recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio ...
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Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
Documentary that reconstructs the professional life of the dancer through the thread of his own voic...
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Luisa Fernanda
Placido Domingo heads an internationally renowned cast in Emilio Sagi's stylish new production for M...
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The ROH Live: Nabucco
Nabucco, King of Babylon, takes Jerusalem in his war with the Israelites – but his daughter Fenena l...
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Handel: Tamerlano
Drama - This majestic production of Handel's vivid tragedy, TAMERLANO, stars a Lear-like Placido Dom...
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Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
Plácido Domingo accomplishes the rare feat of singing both leads on the same night at the Met in 197...
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Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci
Plácido Domingo takes on the leading tenor roles in this 1976 live performance at the NHK Hall in To...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast i...
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Gold and Silver Gala with Placido Domingo
Placido Domingo, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu, and a host of other operatic stars celebrated ...
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Rigoletto a Mantova
The tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigole...
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Otello
Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the gree...
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Hommage a Sevilla
Placido Domingo celebrates the city that has inspired the greatest number of opera composers as a se...
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Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas
Julie Andrews joins John Denver, Placido Domingo, and The King's Singers for a Christmas journey thr...
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Royal Opera House: I Due Foscari
In Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his fam...
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The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera]
Elijah Moshinsky’s atmospheric production, designed by Mark Thompson, sets the stage for this grippi...
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Verdi: Nabucco
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
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Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th cen...
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La Traviata - The Met
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...
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Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
Renata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of his b...
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La Fanciulla del West
Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp dur...
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La Forza del Destino - The Met
With James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of almost Sh...
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Otello - The Met
In an Opening Night performance for the history books, the great Plácido Domingo sings the title rol...
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Stiffelio - The Met
Giuseppe Verdi's opera of religion, revenge and redemption gets the star treatment in this 1993 Metr...
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Verdi: Macbeth
After winning in battle, Commander Macbeth receives a prophesy that he will one day become King of S...
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Royal Opera House: La Traviata
Alfredo Germont and the courtesan Violetta Valéry fall in love at a party in Violetta's Paris salon....
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Macbeth
Plácido Domingo, who just celebrated his 50th stage anniversary in Vienna - incredibly - continues t...
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Pavarotti
Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, filmmaker Ron How...
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Cantos Aztecas
“Cantons Aztecas” are provocative and mystical poems written by an Aztec prince more than 900 years ...
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Andrea Chenier
Although Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young Madalena th...
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Karajan: Beauty As I See It
With a career that includes a 35-year tenure as composer of the Berlin Philharmonic and record sales...
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Otello
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanc...
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I Am La Scala
The 200-year-old story of Milan’s illustrious opera house, La Scala, home to the great tenor Placido...
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Tosca
This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performanc...
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Gianni Schicchi
Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
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The Three Tenors - The Lost Concerts
The Three Tenors began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in R...
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Massenet: Thaïs
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
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Lohengrin
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner....
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The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto ...
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The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O...
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Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
To play Beethoven's music is to give oneself over completely to the child-spirit which lived in that...
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Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
In this documentary portrait prepared for the anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 200th birthday, ...
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Three Tenors in Paris
The Three Tenors: Paris 1998 (re-released with the subtitle The Concert of the Century) is a live al...
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Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how Zeffirelli's se...
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A Spanish Night - Domingo - Berliner Philharmoniker
A Spanish Night - Domingo - Berliner Philharmoniker, Sarah Chang, Ana Maria Martinez...
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Sibelius - Violin Concerto / De Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Sibelius's solitary concerto is one of the most passionate tests for the violin virtuoso, one to whi...
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Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Aida
Pharaoh's daughter Amneris loves general Radames, but he loves slave Aida. Aida's father leads the E...
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A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song
Tony Randall and some children, filmed in Connecticut, provide the framework of the history of some ...
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El corazón del Teatro Real
Documentary about an emblematic institution of the Spanish Arts, Madrid's Teatro Real, or Royal Thea...
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To Play and to Fight
The captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System - an incredible network of hundreds o...
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Burnett Discovers Domingo
Funny woman Carol Burnett teams with tenor Placido Domingo in this musical comedy special....
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Plácido Domingo: At The Arena di Verona
Opera legend Plácido Domingo returns to the spectacular Arena di Verona, where he more than 50 years...
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The Rodriguez and the Beyond
When a young boy finds a message from his late grandfather, his ordinary family discovers an extraor...
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The Sweet Taste of Success
A transformative experience, this emotional documentary addresses some of the most pressing issues o...
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Die Fledermaus
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
by Franco Alfano Patrick Fourmillier Conductor with Placido Domingo...
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Europakonzert 1992 from Madrid
Guiseppe Verdi: Overture from "La forza del destino" Carlo's recitative and aria from "Don Carlos" ...
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Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love
Documentary about the legendary Diva Maria Callas....
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FIFA 2006 Germany World Cup Opening Ceremony
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world ch...
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14 Short Films About Opera
A collection of social media snippets created entirely through volunteer work for the LA Opera durin...
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Symphony for the Spire
An impressive lineup of international stars puts on a spectacular "Symphony for the Spire" to kick o...
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Verdi: Otello
In what many believe to be the finest production of Otello in modern times, Plácido Domingo and Kiri...
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Andrea Bocelli - The Celebration：30th Anniversary
Filmed at the Teatro del Silenzio (Theatre of Silence) in Lajatico over three nights in 2024 and mar...
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