Article: Placido Domingo always buzzing with activity

In his New York City apartment, Placido Domingo keeps a small embroidered pillow that proclaims: "If I rest I rust." It certainly is the right motto for the globe-trotting tenor's nonstop lifestyle.

One moment Domingo was in Beijing performing before thousands at the closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Seemingly the next, even before the torch had time to cool, he was onstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to discuss the opening of Los Angeles Opera's 23 rd season.

The gala festivities will begin Saturday with a pair of movieland icons, William Friedkin and Woody Allen, sharing the direction of Giacomo Puccini's "Il Trittico." Friedkin will direct the trilogy's two dramatic operas, ...

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