Plácido Domingo

普拉西多·多明戈 （Placido Domingo，1941－），著名的西班牙男高音歌唱家。生于馬德里，父母均是西班牙民族歌劇演員，九歲時全家遷居墨西哥。
青年時期熱衷于斗牛和唱歌。于席德音樂學(xué)院畢業(yè)后入墨西哥國家歌劇院唱男中音。二十歲那年，以演唱《茶花女》中的阿爾弗萊德跨入男高音的行列。同年與著名女高音歌唱家薩瑟蘭在美國同臺演出歌劇《拉美莫爾的露契亞》，1965年起在馬賽、維也納、漢堡、柏林、紐約、倫敦等著名歌劇院演出。
他的演唱嗓音豐滿華麗，堅強有力，勝任從抒情到戲劇型的各類男高音角色。他塑造的奧賽羅、拉達美斯等形象，氣概不凡，富于強烈的戲劇性和悲劇色彩。
他還演唱過不少膾炙人口的小歌，又是位頗得好評的鋼琴家和指揮家。
作為歌唱家，多明戈已扮演過多達115個歌劇角色，超過音樂編年史上任何一位男高音。多明戈的保留劇目有115個角色，幾乎囊括了意大利和法國歌劇中的主要角色。他曾在全球所有主要歌劇院演唱，唱片錄音有100多種，其中有93部歌劇全劇的錄音，往往同一個劇目多次錄音，共8次獲格萊美獎。他還曾錄過50多個視盤，拍過3部歌劇影片。
多明戈在全球各地舉行音樂會，從遠(yuǎn)東到南美，從美國到幾乎歐洲各國。他與帕瓦羅蒂和卡雷拉斯合作舉行三大男高音演唱會，足跡遍及全球，從羅馬到洛杉磯，從紐約到東京，從墨爾本到倫敦，從巴黎到南非。
多明戈還是世界上最大的年度聲樂比賽“世界歌劇聲樂比賽”的創(chuàng)始人。他于1993年創(chuàng)辦的這一賽事，迄今已在巴黎、墨西哥城、馬德里、波爾多、東京、漢堡和波多黎各舉行。
他是當(dāng)今最受尊敬的藝術(shù)家之一，經(jīng)常被譽為“歌劇之王”、“真正文藝復(fù)興式的音樂家”。
多明戈原本是以男中音起家，但音域?qū)拸V的他立刻在男高音領(lǐng)域獲得非凡的成就。尤其他不凡的表演天分和執(zhí)著的事業(yè)心，使得多明戈能不斷嘗試新的戲碼，從最初的抒情男高音到后來的戲劇男高音及瓦格納歌劇，甚至跨足指揮領(lǐng)域，全都贏得觀眾的熱愛。多明戈的演唱以抒情性見長，充滿情感和戲劇性的征服力，他的舞臺感覺好，表演細(xì)膩準(zhǔn)確，表演上的才能甚至高于演唱的技巧。多明戈的高音不如帕瓦羅蒂漂亮，但他有一種美麗的音色，嗓音寬厚，他演唱帶悲劇色彩的男高音尤有魅力。多明戈在歌劇中的表現(xiàn)，除奧賽羅之外，應(yīng)該是與薩瑟蘭合作的《霍夫曼的故事》、與科特魯巴斯合作的《茶花女》以及和里恰蕾莉合作的《阿伊達》。
2008年8月24日第29屆北京奧林匹克運動會閉幕式，與宋祖英共同演唱《愛的火焰》。
 
One of the world's most renowned tenors, Placido Domingo -- along with his frequent collaborators Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras -- is largely responsible for the increasing mainstream popularity of opera among contemporary listeners. Born March 21, 1941 in Madrid, Spain, Domingo and his family relocated to Mexico in 1950; there he studied vocal technique, as well as piano and conducting, at the Mexico City Conservatory. After making his public debut as a baritone, he essayed his first major tenor role as Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata in 1960; he subsequently spent close to three years with the Israel National Opera, singing 280 performances in a dozen different roles. In 1966, Domingo created the title role in the U.S. premiere of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at the New York City Opera; his Metropolitan Opera debut followed two years later, appearing as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur -- the first of well over 400 performances at the legendary venue.
 
In the years to follow, Domingo's stature continued to grow on the strength of regular performances at all of the world's most famed opera houses, among them La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, London's Covent Garden, the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, the San Francisco Opera, Chicago's Lyric Opera and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera (which he co-founded). With over 100 recordings to his credit, he performed with sopranos including Rosalind Plowright, Katria Ricciarelli and Montserrat Caballe; in 1981, Domingo also made an unexpected foray into pop music, recording the duet "Perhaps Love" with John Denver and in the process scoring a Top 20 hit. (A 1989 collaboration with Jennifer Rush, "Till I Loved You," was also a mainstream success.) While remaining best known as an operatic performer, he subsequently enjoyed parallel success with his recordings of traditional Spanish love songs; however, his greatest popularity came as one of the Three Tenors, a trio also including Pavarotti and Carreras whose albums and live concert videos enjoyed mainstream success not enjoyed by operatic recordings in many decades.