| Placido Domingo will sing on the stage of the Moscow House of Music According to Placido Domingo, one of the three noble dons known to the world as “the first tenors of our time”, as well as a conductor and director of opera houses in Washington and Los Angeles, “opera and football transcend all boundaries because they speak a language that everyone understands—a language of emotions that brings people together all over the world.” One can expect that it is in this language, not counting Russian and Italian, that Domingo will sing at the Moscow International House of Music, where the first persons of the world vocal scene - Jesse Norman and Luciano Pavarotti - have already shone before him. Domingo is always aristocratic and keenly emotional, which is why his beautiful and high-quality art is so sweet not only to connoisseurs, but also to roaring football audiences.
Many things about the concert will be different from Norman and Pavarotti's performances, but one thing will remain the same - the sound amplification. Without it, real chic may not happen here. In addition, without substitution, the language of emotions may not be very intelligible, which would be a great pity for the simple-hearted, grateful, solvent, worldly to the point of hurting the eyes, burdened with mobile phones that cannot be switched off, and the sometimes not very sophisticated Moscow public.
She will have a light evening, but still full of impressions, in which arias by Massenet, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Lehár and a whole team of Spanish composers and songwriters will be performed. Domingo will be accompanied by the emerging star soprano Natalya Ushakova - for her solo singing she got Mozart's Donna Anna, Lehar's aria and an untitled "Russian folk song". An entire block is devoted to fragments from The Queen of Spades, which entered Domingo’s repertoire relatively recently - only in 1999 on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera did he make his debut as Herman. After the opera set with rarities (neither Massenet’s Cid nor Handel’s Julius Caesar will be heard on the local stage), an operetta-song set will follow, designed to show Domingo’s art in all its subtly nuanced and stylistically diverse, but accessible completeness.
Other details of the future visit are no less beautiful: in addition to the usual humidifier in such cases and the ban on smoking in concert premises, there are also requirements for lighting in the artistic area (it must be “pleasant”, without neon), for landscaping (“the room must be elegant decorated, with plants and flowers, which, however, should not have a strong smell and spread pollen!”), to glasses (“no plastic!”) and coffee (“decaffeinated”).
If you take into account both the style of the singer and the style of the visit, you can expect that, with the exception of the inevitable death-dealing crush at the entrance (evening dresses must be taken care of), the atmosphere of the evening will be elegant. No neon, no caffeine, no plastic. Only art. Yulia BEDEROVA |
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