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Plácido Domingo
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| Birth name | José Plácido Domingo Embil |
| Born | (1941-01-21) 21 January 1941 (age 84) Madrid, Spain |
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| Years active | 1957–present |
Plácido DomingoKBE (born 21 January 1941) is an Spanishoperatictenor and conductor.
He is often regarded as one of the leading tenors of his generation.
Life and career
[change | change source]Born José Plácido Domingo Embil in Madrid, Spain, the son of singers who later moved to Mexico, where he made his vocal study.
He began his career as a baritone singing in operettas but quickly retrained as a tenor.
Biography placido domingo
He made his official operatic debut in Mexico City in 1961, as Alfredo in La traviata.
He sang in Tel Aviv from 1962 to 1965 in a wide variety of roles often in Hebrew. He made his American debut at the New York City Opera in 1965, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1968.
This was followed by La Scala in Milan (1969), the