I'm actually not that interested, but I thought I'd post anyway...
National Opera to open season with "La Boheme" simulcast
The season also includes Domingo's American debut singing in the role of Bajazet in Handel's rarely performed work "Tamerlano,"* as the enslaved Ottoman emperor whose changing marital intentions lead to conspiracy and suicide. Domingo, who turns 66 this month, also will conduct a new production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni."
WNO Season to Include Domingo Singing Handel
Washington National Opera General Director Placido Domingo will make his first-ever appearance in a baroque opera** when he takes on the role of Bajazet in Handel's "Tamerlano" with the opera next spring. It will be the 127th operatic part that the tenor, who turns 66 on Jan. 21, will have sung in what will by then be a half-century-long career.***
Oh, and did someone say photos...
*(if I resolve my multiple financial problems, I'd like to see it in Madrid)
** Not actually true - he sang Rameau's Hippolyte in 1966...
*** Bit premature; I think we should only say 'half-century' in 2009!
