Placido Domingo is the most important person alive in opera. Greatest of the stage tenors still performing, experienced conductor, intendant of not one but two US opera houses: these bald facts hardly begin to delineate th... more »e man. Major sponsorship flocks to him, his influence is felt in opera houses worldwide, and his support can be the making of a singer's career. And once every ten years he allows television cameras in. This time is probably the last television look at his active career and takes the form of a retrospective of his greatest work, building up a picture of this unique man throughout his extraordinary career. Placido Domingo has selected the roles he regards as his greatest, and the particular performances at which he was at his peak.ANDREA CHENIER (Giordano) The Royal Opera Covent Garden Andrea Chenier: Placido Domingo
Maddalena Di Coigny: Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Carlo Gérard: Giorgio Zancanaro
The Royal Opera Chorus and The Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House
Conductor: Julius Rudel Giordano's passionate opera is set in Paris immediately before and during the French Revolution. Placido Domingo stars in the title role as the idealistic poet, and Maddalena, the object of Chenier's adoration, is portrayed by the Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow. A servant-turned-revolutionary, Gerard, sung by Italian baritone Giorgio Zancanaro, also loves Maddalena, and when he is elevated to the revolutionary court he wreaks his revenge against Chenier who is condemned to death.« less