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Article: The Tenor Of The Times; Curtain Rises Saturday on Placido Domingo's Reign as the Washington Opera's Artistic Director and Star
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 3, 1996
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Searching for the real Placido Domingo is like traveling
across a plain toward an immense musical mountain. You drive toward
him for hours, days, weeks and even months and never seem to get any
closer.
The mountain, of course, is always in view, deceptively near,
yet just out of reach. You see him on magazine covers, in newspaper
photos, in PBS documentaries and on the cases of compact discs. You
go to the Kennedy Center, and he's there in the program selling you
a Rolex. You wake up at 3 a.m. and switch on the tube, and there he
is on Channel 50 belting out "Be My Love" ("Placido Domingo sings
great love songs! Operators are standing by!")
The fabled Three Tenors, of which he's the ...