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Before automatically dismissing the idea of the 72-year-old tenor Plácido Domingo reincarnated as a baritone, consider that he started out as one on the zarzuela stage many moons ago. In this selection of Verdi baritone arias, he sounds like the same Domingo so many millions of people have known and loved, just taken down a few scale degrees. That's both a good thing and a bad thing. You don't necessarily want a baritone to sound like a tenor, and in a few of these arias, which move the action along more than a tenor aria would, you feel that he's not really digging into the lyrics. But let's face it: who else among Domingo's tenor contemporaries could have pulled this off? The voice is not just recognizably Domingo but pleasingly Domingo, with the characteristic mixture of power and relaxed flexibility that has endeared him to listeners who have never heard any other opera singer, or any other opera singers than the Three Tenors. Domingo sounds terrific. He gets dry, competent support from the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana and its associated chorus under Pablo Heras-Casado; the orchestra keeps the focus on Domingo's voice, right where it belongs. If this album were by anyone else, it would hardly work; from Domingo it is something to prize.
© TiVo
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Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Antonio Somma, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Angel Joy Blue, Soprano - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Aquiles Machado, Tenor - Arrigo Boito, Librettist - Gianluca Buratto, Bass Vocal - Fernando Piqueras, Baritone - Bonifaci Carrillo, Bass Vocal - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Cor de la Generalitat Valencia, Performer - Francesco Perales, Chorus Master - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Aquiles Machado, Tenor - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Arrigo Boito, Librettist - Fernando Piqueras, Baritone - Angel Joy Blue, Soprano - Bonifaci Carrillo, Bass Vocal - Gianluca Buratto, Bass Vocal - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Cor de la Generalitat Valencia, Performer - Francesco Perales, Chorus Master - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Gianluca Buratto, Bass Vocal - Salvatore Cammarano, Librettist - Leone Emanuele Bardare, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Salvatore Cammarano, Librettist - Leone Emanuele Bardare, Librettist - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Gianluca Buratto, Bass Vocal - Salvatore Cammarano, Librettist - Leone Emanuele Bardare, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Cor de la Generalitat Valencia, Performer - Francesco Perales, Chorus Master - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Achille de Lauzières, Librettist - Aquiles Machado, Tenor - Angelo Zanardini, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Achille de Lauzières, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Angelo Zanardini, Librettist - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Achille de Lauzières, Librettist - Aquiles Machado, Tenor - Angelo Zanardini, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Antonio Ghislanzoni, Librettist - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Antonio Ghislanzoni, Librettist - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Plácido Domingo, Baritone - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Gianluca Buratto, Bass Vocal - Antonio Ghislanzoni, Librettist - Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor - Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Performer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Before automatically dismissing the idea of the 72-year-old tenor Plácido Domingo reincarnated as a baritone, consider that he started out as one on the zarzuela stage many moons ago. In this selection of Verdi baritone arias, he sounds like the same Domingo so many millions of people have known and loved, just taken down a few scale degrees. That's both a good thing and a bad thing. You don't necessarily want a baritone to sound like a tenor, and in a few of these arias, which move the action along more than a tenor aria would, you feel that he's not really digging into the lyrics. But let's face it: who else among Domingo's tenor contemporaries could have pulled this off? The voice is not just recognizably Domingo but pleasingly Domingo, with the characteristic mixture of power and relaxed flexibility that has endeared him to listeners who have never heard any other opera singer, or any other opera singers than the Three Tenors. Domingo sounds terrific. He gets dry, competent support from the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana and its associated chorus under Pablo Heras-Casado; the orchestra keeps the focus on Domingo's voice, right where it belongs. If this album were by anyone else, it would hardly work; from Domingo it is something to prize.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:59
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Plácido Domingo
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
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