Placido Domingo Returns to the Stage
On Wednesday, after the longest absence from the opera stage in his career - three months - the superstar tenor donned the big beezer of his character, Cyrano de Bergerac, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera...Domingo won a standing ovation from an audience that had arrived wondering if he'd make it through the evening. Instead, he delivered with vocal and theatrical panache this fervent character whose foolish surface masks a tragic love...
...In his more than four-decade career, the most time the tenor took off from singing in public was about 10 days...Last Saturday, Domingo sang briefly at a New Orleans benefit, but that was hardly a test of endurance for a two-hour-plus work like "Cyrano."
Domingo had last appeared on the opera stage in December in Los Angeles, where tracheitis forced him to stop singing halfway through Wagner's "Parsifal."
Says the article from Associated Press. I am not convinced, certainly of the 'ten days' and if I had time to check, I'm sure I would find that the three months is not unprecedented.
Eight weeks today I see him. And eight weeks tomorrow. And eight weeks on Monday.
