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Plácido Domingo

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Also known as José Plácido Domingu Embil, Placido Domingo, Jose Placido Domingu Embil, Placido E. Domingo

Spanish tenor and conductor (born 1941)

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Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and actor born in Madrid in 1941. He began his work period in 1959 and is educated at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico. His voice type includes heldentenor, baritone, and tenor. He is a member of The Three Tenors, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also served as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.

Domingo has received the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. He is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom collection, and the Kennedy Center Honors collection. He is the son of Plácido Domingo Ferrer and Pepita Embil and has three children.

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Madrid, Spain

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.

Known for

  • 14 Short Films About Opera2025
  • Cento e oltre. Puccini e noi — Plácido Domingo2025
  • Andrea Bocelli - The Celebration：30th Anniversary2025
  • Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration — Self2024
  • The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend — Self2024
  • Tiempo de Zarzuela2023
  • The Sweet Taste of Success — Plácido Domingo2022
  • Love Duets — Conductor2021
  • The Three Tenors: From Caracalla To The World — Self2020
  • Plácido Domingo: At The Arena di Verona2020

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Spain
Active from
1941
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José Plácido Domingo Embil (born January 21, 1941), better known as Plácido Domingo, is a world-famous Spanish operatic tenor. He is known for his versatile, strong voice that possesses a ringing and clear tone throughout its range. In addition to his singing roles, he has also taken on conducting opera performances as well as acting as the General Director of the Washington National Opera in Washington, DC and the Los Angeles Opera in California. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pl%C3%A1cido+

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Spain
Place of birth
Madrid
Father
Plácido Domingo Ferrer
Mother
Pepita Embil
Occupation
actor
Position held
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
Educated at
National Conservatory of Music of Mexico
Languages spoken
Spanish
Native language
Spanish
Student of
Igor Markevitch
Genre
opera
Instrument
voice
Record label
EMI Classics
Official website
www.placidodomingo.com
Image
Plácido Domingo, 2008.jpg
Number of children
3
Residence
Barcelona
Voice type
tenor
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date of birth
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name in native language
José Plácido Domingo Embil
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Encyclopedic overview

José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, German, Spanish, English, and Russian in the most prestigious opera houses in the world. Although primarily a lirico-spinto tenor for most of his career, especially popular for his Cavaradossi, Hoffmann, Don José and Canio, he quickly moved into more dramatic roles, becoming the most acclaimed Otello of his generation. In the early 2010s, he transitioned from the tenor repertory into exclusively baritone parts, including Simon Boccanegra. As of 2020, he has performed 151 different roles.

Domingo has also achieved significant success as a crossover artist, especially in the genres of Latin and popular music. In addition to winning fourteen Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, several of his records have gone silver, gold, platinum and multi-platinum. His first pop album, Perhaps Love (1981), spread his fame beyond the opera world. The title song, performed as a duet with country and folk singer John Denver, has sold almost four million copies and helped lead to numerous television appearances for the tenor. He also starred in many cinematically released and televised opera movies, particularly under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli. In 1990, he began singing with fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras as part of The Three Tenors. The first Three Tenors recording became the best-selling classical album of all time.

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