Opera Warhorses

Placido Domingo’s 20th century career was built on a  tenor repertory encompassing an amazing breadth of lyric, spinto and dramatic tenor roles. In the new millennium, with widespread recognition as the greatest and most famous of contemporary opera stars, he has concentrated his still formidable vocal resources on a smaller group of roles, of which Siegmund [...]

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[Note from William: my review of international star tenor Salvatore Licitra's performance as Luigi in Puccini's "Il Tabarro" at the Los Angeles Opera appears in this website's September 2008 archives. A review of his performance in the title role of Verdi's "Ernani" at Lyric Opera appears in the November 2009 archives. When in Chicago, I [...]

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[Below: San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley; edited image, based on a photograph, courtesy of the San Francisco Opera.]

Wm: You have had a long association with Francesca Zambello, and, in a difficult period, stepped in to assure that her conceptualization of Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelungs” would be completed and ready to be performed [...]

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