68-year-old tenor Placido Domingo sings the aria "La dolcissima effige" from the Cilea opera Adriana Lecouvreur (with some of the following scene as a bonus). From a performance with Russian soprano Maria Guleghina from February 2009. This was Domingo's last run of Adriana Lecouvreur performances of his career and probably his last standard rep Italian tenor role. He debuted in the baritone role of Simon Boccanegra later the same year. Marcelo Alvarez was initially supposed to be the Maurizio but Domingo stepped in for him when Alvarez ended up doing Il Trovatore instead. Domingo was originally going to be the conductor for the run.
Sorry their heads are chopped off for part of it towards the beginning...
The rest of the scene is in this clip:
• Roberto Frontali (& Pl...
29 мар 2013
