Plácido Domingo: Genius of the World Stage

13 hrs. 37 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Ruben Amon

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

Plácido Domingo is an opera singer on a planetary scale, whose name is inseparable from the history of world music. Seventy-plus years lived, 134 opera roles, 3,500 performances sung—these testify both to the magnitude of his gift and to his inexhaustible energy. For the first time in Russian, a unique book: "Plácido Domingo: Genius of the World Stage." Its author is Spanish journalist Rubén Amon, who has been with the singer’s most important life events for the past 20 years, trying to understand what the phenomenon of Domingo consists of—his inimitable pattern of life. Why does his art resonate with people everywhere on Earth? Why can the great tenor gather a 200,000-strong crowd in New York’s Central Park and at the same time move the hearts of the most discerning music lovers in Salzburg, Moscow, or Bayreuth? A story of the unbelievably rich career of the ever-present Plácido Domingo is complemented by reflections on the singer’s surroundings, on vocal mastery, on the mystery of his truly worldwide popularity, and on why at the end of the 20th century the fame and fees of the three tenors became comparable to the achievements of rock stars.