Plácido Domingo

Spanish tenor and conductor (born 1941)

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Born 1941

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Updated 2026-05-29

Opera's ultimate generalist: Domingo logged 151 roles across Italian, French, German, and Russian stages, then pivoted from tenor to baritone in his seventies. A hundred complete recordings and decades atop the world's most prestigious opera houses.

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José Plácido Domingo Embil is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, German, Spanish, English, and Russian in the most prestigious opera houses in the world. Although primarily a lirico-spinto tenor for most of his career, especially popular for his Cavaradossi, Hoffmann, Don José and Canio, he quickly moved into more dramatic roles, becoming the most acclaimed Otello of his generation. In the early 2010s, he transitioned from the tenor repertory in…

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