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Plácido Francisco Domingo Ornelas (born 21 October 1965), better known as Plácido Domingo Jr., is a Mexican-Spanish singer, songwriter and record producer. Early life [ edit ]
José Plácido Domingo Embil [a] (born 21 January 1941) [1] 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.
Embil's hometown of Getaria, Spain. Josefa "Pepita" Embil was born on February 28, 1918, in Getaria in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country of Spain. [2] Her father, Arturo Embil y Lazcano, was a church organist and a lover of zarzuelas. [3]
It was recorded on December 22, 1994, at the Alte Winterreitschule in Vienna, Austria, the third of Plácido Domingo's numerous Christmas in Vienna concerts. The Vienna Symphony , under the direction of maestro Vjekoslav Šutej , provided orchestral accompanying to the three singers, and the Vienna Children's Choir provided choral backups.
That album topped the U.S. Classical charts, as well as, hit the top of the European and Pan Asian charts. Pavarotti and Friends series was the inspiration for this series. Although the other five volumes did well internationally, Christmas in Vienna with Diana Ross , Plácido Domingo and José Carreras remains the crowning achievement.
Entertainment Weekly gave the video a C+, writing that "as long as gorgeous-voiced stars like Placido Domingo and Sarah Brightman stick to traditional fare like Deck the Halls and European carols, all is bright", and cautioned "but when Domingo bellows over Trevor Horn's bombastic The Closing of the Year, and Brightman attempts to rock on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, they're just schlockin ...
Marta Domingo (née Ornelas, born 1935) is a Mexican opera soprano, stage director and designer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she performed as a lyric soprano in Mexico and Israel. Since the 1990s, she has directed operas in Europe and North America. She is married to Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo, who has credited her with helping to guide his career.
The Three Tenors: Paris 1998 (re-released with the subtitle The Concert of the Century) is a live album by José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti with conductor James Levine. The album was recorded at a Three Tenors concert on 10 July 1998 during celebrations for the FIFA World Cup .