Domingo passe du répertoire de ténor à celui de baryton et va s'attaquer à Simon Boccanegra. Voici le communiqué de l'associated press :
The Associated Press, January 23, 2007
NEW YORK - Placido Domingo is making the jump from tenor to baritone. Domingo will sing the title role in Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" for the first time at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 2009, a spokesman for Domingo said Tuesday.
Domingo, who turned 66 on Monday, also has agreed to sing the role at Milan's Teatro alla Scala and at The Royal Opera in London.
Domingo sang the tenor role of the opera, Gabriele Adorno, for the
first time in 1995 at New York's Metropolitan Opera, according to his
Web site. He said in April 2005 that a final ambition was to sing the
baritone role in "Boccanegra, " but he didn't say where or when.
His decision to sing "Boccanegra" at Covent Garden was reported in the February issue of the British magazine Opera.