Plácido Domingo
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.
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous...
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The Book of Life
as Skeleton Jorge (voice)The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Monte (voice)A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner...
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Pavarotti
as SelfFeaturing never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, filmmaker Ron...
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Night of 100 Stars
as SelfThe most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took...
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Night of 100 Stars II
as SelfThis special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited...
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The Rodriguez and the Beyond
as Agente RodríguezWhen a young boy finds a message from his late grandfather, his ordinary family discovers an...
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Otello
as OtelloBased on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the...
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Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
as Self - Performer'Ol' Blue Eyes' eightieth birthday celebration; star-studded entertainment, tributes by a...
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La traviata
as Alfredo GermontThis “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where...
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Carmen
as Don JoséA film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a...
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The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
as Self - ConductorThe world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and...
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Turandot
as CalafThe Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan...
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
as Chevalier des GrieuxAll the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by...
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Andrea Chenier
as Andrea ChénierAlthough Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young...
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Otello
as OtelloThis was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively...
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Rigoletto
as The Duke of MantuaA Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career...
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Otello
as OtelloVerdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand...
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Otello
as OtelloThe complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the...
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Pagliacci
as CanioThe story is set in southern Italy and recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or...
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Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas
as HimselfJulie Andrews joins John Denver, Placido Domingo, and The King's Singers for a Christmas journey...
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Il Trovatore - Verdi
as ManricoThe gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a...
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Fedora
as Loris IpanovPrincess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for...
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Aida
as RadamèsAIDA, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military...
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
as HimselfIn celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour...
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The Transformation of the World Into Music
as SelfThis film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television....
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Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
as HimselfThis tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here...
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La Gioconda
as EnzoRecorded live at the Vienna State Opera, Placido Domingo and Eva Marton star in a sumptuous...
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Mariinsky Theatre
as SelfA look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian...
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Madama Butterfly
as PinkertonMirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre...
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The ROH Live: La Traviata
as Giorgio GermontAlfredo Germont and the courtesan Violetta Valéry fall in love at a party in Violetta's Paris...
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The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994
as HimselfIt's not opera; it's not a pop concert; it's not Broadway. It's all of these and none of them....
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El corazón del Teatro Real
as HimselfDocumentary about an emblematic institution of the Spanish Arts, Madrid's Teatro Real, or Royal...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
as AeneasBerlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus,...
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Carmen
as Don JoséLive performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.
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Tosca
as Mario CavaradossiThis live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact...
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Manon Lescaut
as Des Grieux"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and...
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Cavalleria rusticana
as TuridduFranco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of...
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Karajan: Beauty As I See It
as Self (archive footage)With a career that includes a 35-year tenure as composer of the Berlin Philharmonic and record...
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Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
as Turiddu / CanioPlácido Domingo accomplishes the rare feat of singing both leads on the same night at the Met in...
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The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
as Self - HostThis production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer...
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La Traviata - The Met
as Alfredo GermontJames Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings...
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Georges Bizet: Carmen
as Don JoséCarmen, presented in a production at the French Opera House.
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The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
as SelfIncludes the complete concert from Petra, Jordan, recorded on October 12, 2008, which would have...
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Massenet: Thaïs
as Self - HostWhen the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life...
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Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
as SelfAlthough he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the...
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Carmen
as Don JoséCARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman,...
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Don Carlo
as Don CarloGhiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here...
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Les Contes d'Hoffmann
as HoffmannSeeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of...
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The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera]
as GhermanElijah Moshinsky’s atmospheric production, designed by Mark Thompson, sets the stage for this...
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Tosca
as CavaradossiContemporary Rome is the setting for this unique and highly innovative version of Puccini's...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem
as uncreditedThe premiere of Requiem, Andrew Lloyd Webber's pivotal and most personal of compositions took...
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Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
as NarratorPlácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and...
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Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac
as Cyrano di BergeracWhile best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
as OrestGluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar...
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La Forza del Destino - The Met
as Don AlvaroWith James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of...
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The Three Tenors: From Caracalla To The World
as HimselfBillions watched as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and José Carreras performed for the first...
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Simon Boccanegra
as Simon BoccanegraComing just before the mature final works, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra - along with Un Ballo in...
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Verdi: Nabucco
as NabuccoThe legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his...
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Andrea Chénier
as Andrea ChénierLive from ROH 1985. Giordano's Andrea Chenier is one of the greatest of verismo operas, full of...
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The Three Tenors Christmas
as HimselfThe Three Tenors capture the joy and spirit of the season with their first ever Christmas...
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Verdi: Otello
as OtelloThe Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been...
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Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
as HimselfFranco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how...
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Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
as Self / TenorTo play Beethoven's music is to give oneself over completely to the child-spirit which lived in...
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Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
as Gabriele AdornoThis evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th...
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La Fanciulla del West
as Dick Johnson o RamerrezGiancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp...
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Verdi: Macbeth
as MacbethAfter winning in battle, Commander Macbeth receives a prophesy that he will one day become King...
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Il Trovatore
as Il conte di LunaDaniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this production of Verdi's opera starring...
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Tosca
as CavaradossiLive Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.
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The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller
as MillerPremiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata,...
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Cantos Aztecas
as Solist“Cantons Aztecas” are provocative and mystical poems written by an Aztec prince more than 900...
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Handel: Tamerlano
as BajazetDrama - This majestic production of Handel's vivid tragedy, TAMERLANO, stars a Lear-like Placido...
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Stiffelio - The Met
as uncreditedGiuseppe Verdi's opera of religion, revenge and redemption gets the star treatment in this 1993...
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The Original Three Tenors Concert
as uncreditedThe Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and...
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Verdi : I Due Foscari - Royal Opera House
as Francesco FoscariIn Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his...
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To Play and to Fight
as Self - Interviewee / TrumpetThe captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System - an incredible network of...
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Samson et Dalila
as SamsonElijah Moshinsky's production of Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila", recorded live at the...
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Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
as uncreditedRenata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of...
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Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
as Dick JohnsonLa Fanciulla del West, Puccini's penultimate opera is based on a play by David Belasco set at...
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Das Waldbühnen-Konzert
as SelfSparks fly in this video of the all-star concert from Berlin's equivalent of the Hollywood Bowl...
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Lohengrin
as uncreditedLohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner.
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Francesca da Rimini
as Paolo MalatestaLive performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera...
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Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
as Gustavo IIIThis production from Covent Garden is set in Stockholm, and not Boston. With Reri Grist (Oscar),...
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I Am La Scala
as SelfThe 200-year-old story of Milan’s illustrious opera house, La Scala, home to the great tenor...
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Three Tenors in Paris
as SelfThe Three Tenors: Paris 1998 (re-released with the subtitle The Concert of the Century) is a...
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A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song
as SingerTony Randall and some children, filmed in Connecticut, provide the framework of the history of...
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Burnett Discovers Domingo
as SelfFunny woman Carol Burnett teams with tenor Placido Domingo in this musical comedy special.
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Verdi: I Due Foscari
as Francesco Foscarin his 'new life' as a baritone, Placido Domingo has triumphed in the role of Francesco Foscari...
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Meyerbeer: L'Africaine
as Vasco Da GamaThis was a 1988 revival of a 1971 production that teamed Domingo (Vasco da Gama) and Verrett...
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Christmas in Vienna
as SelfChristmas in Vienna is a 1993 concert by American soul singer Diana Ross, and Spanish tenors...
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann
as uncreditedIn Luther's beer-cellar, lusty singing extols the virtues of beer and wine. For this evening,...
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Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
as SelfIn this documentary portrait prepared for the anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 200th...
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Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
as uncreditedRichard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a...
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Tosca
as Mario CavaradossiOpera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of...
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Verdi Nabucco
as NabuccoNABUCCO may be Verdi's first masterpiece, and not just because of that amazing Chorus of Hebrews...
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The ROH Live: Nabucco
as NabuccoNabucco, King of Babylon, takes Jerusalem in his war with the Israelites – but his daughter...
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The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
as NeptuneA contemporary take on the 17th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy...
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Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber
as uncreditedA documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews...
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The Three Tenors - The Lost Concerts
as Self (archive footage)The Three Tenors began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla...
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
as Gustavo IIIUn ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text,...
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Hommage a Sevilla
as HimselfPlacido Domingo celebrates the city that has inspired the greatest number of opera composers as...
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Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
as SelfWaltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal...
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Luisa Fernanda
as Vidal HernandoPlacido Domingo heads an internationally renowned cast in Emilio Sagi's stylish new production...
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Plácido Domingo Gala
as Nabucco / Macbeth / Simon BaccanegraHalf a century ago, Plácido Domingo made his debut at the Arena di Verona: on 16 July 1969 he...
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Rigoletto a Mantova
as RigolettoThe tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester...
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Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
as GustavoVerdi - Un ballo in maschera / Domingo · Barstow · Quivar · Jo · Nucci · Rydl · Chaignaud ·...
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Otello - The Met
as uncreditedIn an Opening Night performance for the history books, the great Plácido Domingo sings the title...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Aida
as uncreditedPharaoh's daughter Amneris loves general Radames, but he loves slave Aida. Aida's father leads...
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Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci
as Turiddu / CanioPlácido Domingo takes on the leading tenor roles in this 1976 live performance at the NHK Hall...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
as OtelloVerdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand...
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Gold and Silver Gala with Placido Domingo
as uncreditedPlacido Domingo, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu, and a host of other operatic stars...
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Macbeth
as MacbethGiuseppe Verdi's powerful opera Macbeth sees a barnstorming staging by legendary stage director...
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Samson et Dalila
as SamsonWhile the rest of the Hebrews bewail their fate, Samson alone trusts in God's promise of...
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Sibelius - Violin Concerto / De Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain
as uncreditedSibelius's solitary concerto is one of the most passionate tests for the violin virtuoso, one to...
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Il Volo: Notte Magica - A Tribute To The Three Tenors 2016
as uncreditedThe fourth live album by Italian operatic pop trio Il Volo, with the participation of Plácido...
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The First Emperor
as Emperor QinThe incomparable Plácido Domingo began a new chapter in his legendary Met career when he created...
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A Spanish Night - Domingo - Berliner Philharmoniker
as uncreditedA Spanish Night - Domingo - Berliner Philharmoniker, Sarah Chang, Ana Maria Martinez
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Plácido Domingo: At The Arena di Verona
as uncreditedOpera legend Plácido Domingo returns to the spectacular Arena di Verona, where he more than 50...
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Mariachi: The Spirit of Mexico
as Host & NarratorFor ten days each year during the International Mariachi Festival in Guadalahara, more than 500...
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Amor, vida de mi vida: Zarzuelas
as tenorThe many passionate, fiery or lyrical vocal pieces of Spanish zarzuela have continued to thrive...
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Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
as Simon BoccanegraWhen this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido...
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The Cosby Show
as uncreditedThe Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for...
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The Simpsons
as uncreditedSet in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday...
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Mozart in the Jungle
as Plácido DomingoIn the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on...
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - GuestLate Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that...
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Viña del Mar International Song Festival
as Self - Musical GuestA yearly musical contest organized by the municipality of Viña del Mar, Chile which takes place...
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The Kennedy Center Honors
as SelfThe Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their...
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Fox News Sunday
as uncreditedFox News Sunday with Chris Wallace is a Sunday morning news/talk show on the Fox Broadcasting...
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Great Performances
as SelfThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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Great Performances
as Francisco GoyaThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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Great Performances
as RadamèsThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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Great Performances
as JuanilloThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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Great Performances
as ParsifalThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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Wetten, dass..?
as SelfA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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The Big Show
as SelfThe Big Show is an American comedy-variety-musical television series produced and broadcast by...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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Poppy Cat
as Owl (singing voice)Join Poppy Cat and her friends as they embark on extraordinary adventures through fantastical...
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Legends
as SelfThe story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for...
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Masterclass
as SelfMasterClass is a documentary television series airing on HBO. Each half-hour episode documents...
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