Placido Domingo - Verdi's Requiem - Ingemisco

Placido Domingo sings the tenor solo from Verdi's Requiem.

NY, 1980.

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Music

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• gabba01
• tenor
• aria
• Placido
• Domingo
• opera
• Verdi
• Requiem
• Ingemisco

[bodiloto]

- 5 !!!!!!!

[rmsadoq]

Domingo's large voice puts a certain amount of power in this piece, but the "inter oves" section lacks the coyness that lighter tenors put into it. Not that this rendition is not awesome -- just my personal taste with this piece.

[CTUMFanfare]

One early entrance but innate musicianship! I wish that he could avoid the tendency to sing sharp in high register.

[Ettoredipugnar]

the worse.

[Dymension]

For my money, this is the most beautiful voice of the last 40 years, though Pavarotti had the better technique.

[verdiwag]

I've often wondered what happens when a singer comes in too early or late and so it's interesting to see how Domingo just repeated the phrase and kept going. I bet many in the audience didn't even notice!

[MrRossVit]

No, after Pavarotti I can not enjoy Domingo, Pavarotti the best at all times

[BBQkrewe]

@rmsadoq kwitchurbitchin'.

[Celestined]

Measure 170 he jumped the gun and repeats his line he is SUPPOSED to have sun once in measure 171, "Preces meae." I guess this was not for a Grammy, so there was no "do over." Talk about a needed mulligan.

[peterkar]

@shmk1 Quite right! And we could add to your list his remarkable range from his baritone beginnings, as well as his linguistic skills. Who knows? - there may be greater tenors still to come; but there are unlikely to be many as gifted musically.

[gkopij]

@fabrizzzio48 I hope you woke up since 2007 (at least).

[gkopij]

@Rigoletto1979

I've herd this about his other performances too. He must have suffered in his life terribly, I am sorry that he had put himself and us through such pain.

[cornificius22vain]

3:04 : ouch!

[shmk1]

@Etnalleb everybody makes huge mistakes at some point in their lives don't be so silly. Domingo may not have the greatest top but he is still a great tenor. No tenor in history has had as vast a repertoire as he has had, he is an incredible musician and a great actor too and a beauty of tone. He may not be a bjorling but he is still a great tenor.

[E19103]

@Englishtenor2  Zubin Mehta is conducting.

[AleBro83]

@bodiloto - 5 confermo. Tu sei sapiente e unico nei tuoi giudizi...ti saluto con affetto

[Rigoletto1979]

Just FYI...

I was in the choir for this performance.

The conductor is Zubin Mehta and Domingo was remarkable. He sang this night in terrible pain with each breath due to a kidney infection.

[Englishtenor2]

@fabrizzzio48 I think that's Muti, not Mehta...

[Englishtenor2]

@stevevandien I adore the Plass! I couldn't cut anyone anymore slack!

[stevevandien]

@Englishtenor2 Even great tenors are human. Cut him some slack, for heaven's sake.

[marvire]

Pues sí que la cagado!!!

[mauricedelacroix]

Maybe he was in one of those days when everything goes wrong. Very humane. A great interpreter although.

[Lovelytenor1]

Perhaps the most musical of modern tenors he makes an error similar to the one Pavarotti made in a live broadacast ( on YT). despite his vocal imperfections he had one of the most remarkable careers in opera history & should be remembered for that.

[deskfruit]

Domingo at 1:23 made mistakes where he should not have sung. He covered up the mistakes by repeting the same phrase.

[deskfruit]

Thanks for making me weeping for a poor personality that seeks laughter & feeling of superiority with english only to non-enlgish speakers. Study hard & develop yourself so that your parent may not regret of your birth. And also remeber that day of english is waning.

[deskfruit]

at 1:24, he should not have sung. He covered up by repeating the phrase. I don't know if the original score says so, though.

[deskfruit]

When it comes to opera, Doming seats behind nobody. But ingemisco is not to be sung like opera aria. Domingo here is singing the song with outburst of his passion in his dramatic voice. Not a best rendition, not bad either though.