Placido Domingo - Young Domingo - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is re-issue of the previous bestseller C756081 (4011790756127).Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's 1985 production of InchPagliacciInch (and InchCavalleria rusticanaInch) was one of the French director's last assignments at the Vienna State Opera before his untimely death 1988. The sensation of that June evening in 1985 was, however, Placido Domingo's consummate performance in Leoncavallos Pagliacci. He was more than an expressive singer with an incomparable tenor voice, he was also a truly great actor able to convey the whole world of his emotions to every member of the audience. Domingo's ability to bring out utter hopelessness transformed Leoncavallo's hackneyed opera into a highly individual tragedy from whose sway no one could escape. The dramatic intensity of his performance fired the other singers, too thanks not least to her extraordinary vocal skills, Ileana Cotrubas was able to make Nedda's easygoing attitude as credible as her genuine feeling for Silvio and her struggle to safeguard the new love that had entered into her life; Wolfgang Schone gave Silvio an unusually clear-cut character and Heinz Zednik's presence in the cast likewise gave Peppe a whole new dimension. Finally, the French baritone Matteo Manuguerra was able to display thanks to his great and powerful voice a Inchterrifyingly evilInch Tonio.By the end of the evening the public and the critics Inchwere genuinely grippedInch

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Verdi / Domingo,Placido - Der Junge Domingo 4 [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/03/2008