Lord, how this takes me back. PBS telecast this performance live to open the 1979-80 Metropolitan Opera season. Upon the following Saturday PBS broadcast the video twice in a row. I was then a 20-year-old bass-baritone, in love with classical singing and the great American songbook. I remain so today --
Domingo is still the one and only to make you cry, while he is on stage ..first time i Shaw him on the 3d dec. 2021 a la scala, performing, singing and acting, giving his saul to the audience. A real fighter. What if others have, now, a better voice? They do not make us feel the same....Bravo Maestro, you always make the difference!
Great otello but far from the best...... del monaco,ramon vinay,were much better,we also had francesco merli,tomango,zanatello,martinelli,one thing ill agree on is that domingo was a very fine actor
I remember watching this performance live, than twice again during that weekend in the fall of 1979. Loved it in every way. Granted, having seen Jon Vickers' Otello during the previous season opener of "Live at the Met," Domingo had some big shoes to fill (not to mention those of McCracken, who did NOT get a live Otello from the Met). But he rose to the occasion. Some who' heard Domingo's Otello live (I never did, dammit) tell me he had ample if not overwhelming vocal resources for the role, and his acting was powerful and passionate. I think this scene reflects both opinions --
I agree with what you say. But what I was asking is: it looks like the audio and video don't match in timing. And I know he is not lip synching, so what can cause this - technically, not vocally. He is wonderful!
@Love Music, I was puzzled by WiseMonkey's reply too. lol Anyway, I'm gonna guess that the a/v app used by the uploader dropped some frames when s/he excised this fragment of the performance. It happens. Unfortunately, to the uninterested in figuring out why such has happened, it'll look as if its the singer's fault, which is utter nonsense. As James Levine was known to say to this amazing force of nature, "they don't call you Placido Domingo for nothing." Paz y salud.
As the great critic Conrad L. Osborne recently noted, Domingo has always been "a gifted generalist" -- good, but rarely specific to the character. I would argue the primary exception to CLO's rule has always been Domingo's Otello. He always connected with the role very specifically, and very deeply, so that he was certainly one of the great Otellos.
@NIKOFIGAROS NOOOO!!!!!! Por que la "GRANDEZA" viene casi siempre acompañado con la "SENCILLEZ" Y Placido Domingo y Gilda Cruz Romo son dos ejemplos de esto que escribo.....
Čia dar kitaip,sakyčiau atviriau,tai beprotystės akimirka. Jūs minėjote,kad labai mėgstat D. Verdi,tai galiu drąsiai teigti kad būtumėte pats mylimiausias j Jo atlikėjas,nes labiausiai įsigilinęs į Jo kūrinius!
Tiny voice, but somehow the "best" Otello? I guess since Otello is often interpreted as mad, or a spoiled child it makes sense for (d)omingo to shout his way through.
@@gregorydiercks8958 Don't worry, there are a lot of trolls around. People who have never been in a theater before but consider themselves as knowledgable people. Domingo had a rather large voice and this acting as Otello in the 70s and 80s was magnificent, as Laurence Olivier describe him himself.
Un gran otello x DGO, en cambio ahora d viejo datos lástima cantando d barítono XZ q pena en su ocaso, triste final, como tenor faltó d agudos,como barítono no tiene el color y dar pena maestro, retirese y no d lástima operisticamente
