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Article: Books -- Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera by Daniel Snowman
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- Opera News
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- February 3, 1996
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Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera by Daniel Snowman Amadeus Press, 188 pp. $22.95
At this point, there's not much the opera-going public doesn't know about Placido Domingo, so anyone wanting to write a book on the star tenor is obliged to look for a novel approach. For Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera, Daniel Snowman (author of The World of Placido Domingo) tracks the tenor through four recent projects, from rehearsals to opening night.
A camera crew was part of the odyssey, producing a four-part television series for the BBC, with each segment focused on the gestation of one production: Domingo's first Siegmund (Vienna); La Boheme, conducted by the tenor (Los Angeles); Il ...