Domingo (right) as the Conte di Luna in Il trovatore with Riccardo Zanellato at the 2014 Salzburg Festival
Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo has sung 151 roles in Italian, French, German, English, Spanish and Russian.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] His main repertoire however is Italian (Otello , Cavaradossi in Tosca , Don Carlo , Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut , Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West , Radames in Aida ), French (Faust , Werther , Don José in Carmen , Samson in Samson et Dalila ), and German (Lohengrin , Parsifal , and Siegmund in Die Walküre ). Domingo currently continues to add more operas to his repertoire. Since 2009, he has moved substantially into the baritone repertoire, especially focusing on Verdi baritone roles . In 2015, he made his most recent debuts as Macbeth at the Berlin State Opera , Don Carlo in Ernani at the Metropolitan Opera , and Gianni Schicchi at the Los Angeles Opera . Tim Page , a Pulitzer Prize -winner for music criticism, described Domingo in a 1996 Washington Post article as "the most versatile, intelligent and altogether accomplished operatic tenor now before the public".[ 4]
Domingo's official repertoire list includes all of his operatic roles on stage and recordings, as well as his zarzuela and operetta debuts made in opera houses and on recordings since his operatic debut on 23 September 1959. One exception to this is Arturo in Donizetti 's opera Lucia di Lammermoor , in which he made his role debut on 28 October 1961 in Guadalajara , Mexico, and his U.S. operatic debut on 16 November of the same year at Dallas Civic Opera in Dallas, Texas. The only other exception is his performance as Antonio in Cano's modern opera, Luna , in which he appeared on an abridged recording in 1997 and in a concert performance at the Palau de la Música de València on 15 May 1998.
The official list does not include his previous roles in zarzuelas or musicals with his parents' company or theaters in Mexico prior to September 1959, nor does it include his performance as the Spanish painter Francisco Goya in the musical, Goya: A Life in Song , which he recorded in both English and Spanish-language versions. It also contains only a fraction of his sung symphonic works, excluding his performances of the tenor parts in Verdi and Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Requiems and Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony , Missa Solemnis , and Christus am Ölberge , among others. Some small parts sung during the same performance are listed as only one role. Danilo in The Merry Widow is listed twice: once together with Camille in a Spanish-language translation early in his career and later alone in English translation at the Metropolitan Opera . Domingo alternated the parts of Camille and Danilo during his first run of the operetta at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1960.
Role debuts
These lists are sortable, e.g. by opera title, composer, location, or date. Operas and other works, in which Domingo appeared in world premieres, are marked in bold. All roles are tenor parts except where noted.
Official repertoire
Year
#
Title
Composer
Role
Debut date
Opera house / studio recording
Location
Genre
1959
1
Rigoletto
Verdi
Borsa
23 September 1959
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
2
Dialogues of the Carmelites
Poulenc
Chaplain
21 October 1959
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
1960
3
The Merry Widow
Lehár
Danilo (tenor or baritone), Camille
1960
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
operetta
4
Turandot
Puccini
Altoum
11 September 1960
Teatro de la Ciudad
Monterrey
opera
5
Turandot
Puccini
Pang
1 October 1960
Teatro de la Ciudad
Monterrey
opera
6
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti
Normanno
5 October 1960
Teatro de la Ciudad
Monterrey
opera
7
La traviata
Verdi
Gastone
8 October 1960
Teatro de la Ciudad
Monterrey
opera
8
Carmen
Bizet
Remendado
15 October 1960
Teatro de la Ciudad
Monterrey
opera
9
Otello
Verdi
Cassio
17 October 1960
Teatro de la Ciudad
Monterrey
opera
1961
10
La traviata
Verdi
Alfredo
19 May 1961
Teatro de la Ciudad
Monterrey
opera
11
El último sueño [es ]
Vázquez
Enrique
28 May 1961
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
12
Amelia goes to the ball
Menotti
Lover
28 June 1961
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
13
Fedora
Giordano
Désire, Baron Rouvel
2 July 1961
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
14
Boris Godunov
Mussorgsky
Simpleton, Shuisky
8 August 1961
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
15
Andrea Chénier
Giordano
Abbé, Incredibile
15 August 1961
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
16
Tosca
Puccini
Spoletta
21 August 1961
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
17
Madama Butterfly
Puccini
Goro
15 September 1961
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
18
Tosca
Puccini
Cavaradossi
30 September 1961
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
1962
19
La bohème
Puccini
Rodolfo
4 March 1962
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
20
Così fan tutte
Mozart
Ferrando
10 May 1962
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
21
Adriana Lecouvreur
Cilea
Maurizio
17 May 1962
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
22
Trittico Francescano
Refice
1 October 1962
Teatro Degollado
Guadalajara
opera
23
Madama Butterfly
Puccini
Pinkerton
7 October 1962
Teatro Isauro Martínez
Torreón
opera
24
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti
Edgardo
26 November 1962
Fort Worth Opera
Fort Worth
opera
1963
25
Carmen
Bizet
José
25 June 1963
Israeli Opera House
Tel Aviv
opera
26
Don Giovanni
Mozart
Don Ottavio
21 September 1963
Israeli Opera House
Tel Aviv
opera
27
Faust
Gounod
Faust
3 December 1963
Israeli Opera House
Tel Aviv
opera
1964
28
Les pêcheurs de perles
Bizet
Nadir
21 January 1964
Israeli Opera House
Tel Aviv
opera
29
Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky
Lensky
5 September 1964
Israeli Opera House
Tel Aviv
opera
1965
30
Cavalleria rusticana
Mascagni
Turiddu
21 January 1965
Israeli Opera House
Tel Aviv
opera
31
Samson and Delilah
Saint-Saëns
Samson
30 July 1965
Chautauqua Opera
Chautauqua
opera
32
Les contes d'Hoffmann
Offenbach
Hoffmann
7 September 1965
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
opera
1966
33
Carlota, Severino, La mulata de Córdoba
Sandi , Moreno,Moncayo
Maximiliano, Tenor role, Anselmo
1 January 1966
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Barcelona
opera
34
Don Rodrigo
Ginastera
Don Rodrigo
22 February 1966
New York City Opera
New York
opera
35
Andrea Chénier
Giordano
Andrea Chénier
3 March 1966
New Orleans Opera
New Orleans
opera
36
Hippolyte et Aricie
Rameau
Hippolyte
6 April 1966
Opera Company of Boston
Boston
opera
37
Pagliacci
Leoncavallo
Canio
9 August 1966
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
38
The Barber of Seville
Rossini
Almaviva
16 September 1966
Teatro Degollado
Guadalajara
opera
39
Anna Bolena
Donizetti
Lord Percy
15 November 1966
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
1967
40
Il tabarro
Puccini
Luigi
8 March 1967
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
41
Aida
Verdi
Radames
11 May 1967
Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg
opera
42
Don Carlo
Verdi
Don Carlo
19 May 1967
Vienna State Opera
Vienna
opera
43
Un ballo in maschera
Verdi
Riccardo
31 May 1967
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Berlin
opera
1968
44
Lohengrin
Wagner
Lohengrin
14 January 1968
Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg
opera
45
Manon Lescaut
Puccini
Des Grieux
15 February 1968
Connecticut Opera
Hartford
opera
46
Il trovatore
Verdi
Manrico
14 March 1968
New Orleans Opera
New Orleans
opera
1969
47
Rigoletto
Verdi
Il Duca
2 January 1969
Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg
opera
48
La forza del destino
Verdi
Don Alvaro
18 January 1969
Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg
opera
49
Manon
Massenet
Des Grieux
20 February 1969
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
50
Turandot
Puccini
Calaf
16 July 1969
Verona Arena
Verona
opera
51
Ernani
Verdi
Ernani
7 December 1969
Teatro alla Scala
Milan
opera
1970
52
Oberon
Weber
Hüon
March 1970
Bayerischer Rundfunk studio
Studio
opera
53
La Gioconda
Ponchielli
Enzo
14 May 1970
Teatro de la Zarzuela
Madrid
opera
54
Roberto Devereux
Donizetti
Devereux
15 October 1970
New York City Opera
New York
opera
1971
55
Der Rosenkavalier
R. Strauss
Italian singer
March 1971
Studio
opera
56
I Lombardi alla prima crociata
Verdi
Oronte
July 1971
Royal Philharmonic , London
Studio
opera
57
Luisa Miller
Verdi
Rodolfo
4 November 1971
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
1972
58
Giovanna d'Arco
Verdi
Carlo VII
August 1972
Studio
opera
59
Los claveles [es ]
Serrano
Fernando
1972
Studio
zarzuela
60
La dolorosa
Serrano
Rafael
1972
Studio
zarzuela
1973
61
Francesca da Rimini
Zandonai
Paolo
22 March 1973
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
62
L'Africaine
Meyerbeer
Vasco da Gama
3 November 1973
War Memorial Opera House
San Francisco
opera
1974
63
I vespri siciliani
Verdi
Arrigo
9 April 1974
Palais Garnier
Paris
opera
64
Mefistofele
Boito
Faust
July 1974
Studio
opera
65
Roméo et Juliette
Gounod
Roméo
28 September 1974
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
66
La fanciulla del West
Puccini
Dick Johnson
26 November 1974
Teatro Regio di Torino
Turin
opera
1975
67
La Navarraise
Massenet
Araquil
1975
Studio
opera
68
Otello
Verdi
Otello
28 September 1975
Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg
opera
1976
69
Gianni Schicchi
Puccini
Rinuccio
1976
Studio
opera
70
Louise
Charpentier
Julien
1976
Studio
opera
71
Macbeth
Verdi
Macduff
1976
Studio
opera
72
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Wagner
Walther von Stolzing
March, 1976
Studio
opera
73
Le Cid
Massenet
Don Rodrigue
8 March 1976
Opera Orchestra of New York
Carnegie Hall , New York
opera
74
L'amore dei tre re
Montemezzi
Avito
July 1976
Studio
opera
1977
75
L'elisir d'amore
Donizetti
Nemorino
1977
Studio
opera
76
Fedora
Giordano
Loris
15 February 1977
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Barcelona
opera
77
Werther
Massenet
Werther
18 December 1977
Bavarian State Opera
Munich
opera
1978
78
La damnation de Faust
Berlioz
Faust
January 1978
Studio
oratorio /opera
1979
79
Le Villi
Puccini
Roberto
June 1979
Studio
opera
80
Requiem
Berlioz
Tenor part
June 1979
Studio
oratorio
81
Béatrice et Bénédict
Berlioz
Bénédict
July 1979
Studio
opera
82
Il Giuramento
Mercadante
Viscardo
9 September 1979
Vienna State Opera
Vienna
opera
1980
83
El poeta
Moreno Torroba
José de Espronceda
19 June 1980
Teatro Real
Madrid
opera
1981
84
Norma
Bellini
Pollione
21 September 1981
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
1982
85
La rondine
Puccini
Ruggero
1982
Studio
opera
86
Nabucco
Verdi
Ismaele
May 1982
Studio
opera
1983
87
Les Troyens
Berlioz
Enée
26 September 1983
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
1986
88
Die Fledermaus
J. Strauss
Alfred
April 1986
Studio
operetta
89
Goya
Menotti
Goya
15 November 1986
Washington National Opera
Washington
opera
1988
90
Iris
Mascagni
Osaka
1988
Studio
opera
91
Tannhäuser
Wagner
Tannhäuser
April 1988
Studio
opera
1989
92
Die Frau ohne Schatten
R. Strauss
Der Kaiser
March 1989
Studio
opera
1990
93
Man of La Mancha
Leigh
Don Quixote
June 1990
Studio
musical
1991
94
The Flying Dutchman
Wagner
Erik
February 1991
Studio
opera
95
Parsifal
Wagner
Parsifal
14 March 1991
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
1992
96
The Barber of Seville
Rossini
Figaro (baritone)
February 1992
Studio
opera
97
El gato montés
Penella
Rafaele Ruiz
7 August 1992
Teatro de la Maestranza
Seville
opera
98
Die Walküre
Wagner
Siegmund
19 December 1992
Vienna State Opera
Vienna
opera
1993
99
Stiffelio
Verdi
Stiffelio
21 October 1993
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
1994
100
Doña Francisquita
Vives
Fernando
February 1994
Studio
zarzuela
101
La verbena de la Paloma
Bretón
Julian
April 1994
Studio
zarzuela
102
Il Guarany
Gomes
Pery
5 June 1994
Bonn Opera House
Bonn
opera
103
Idomeneo
Mozart
Idomeneo
1 November 1994
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
104
Hérodiade
Massenet
Jean
8 November 1994
War Memorial Opera House
San Francisco
opera
1995
105
Luisa Fernanda
Torroba
Javier
1995
Studio
zarzuela
106
Simon Boccanegra (1881 version)
Verdi
Adorno
19 January 1995
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
1996
107
La tabernera del puerto
Sorozábal
Leandro
1996
Studio
zarzuela
1997
108
Simon Boccanegra (1857 version)
Verdi
Adorno
28 June 1997
Royal Opera House
London
opera
109
Divinas Palabras
Abril
Lucero
18 October 1997
Teatro Real
Madrid
opera
1998
110
Le prophète
Meyerbeer
Jean de Leyde
21 May 1998
Vienna State Opera
Vienna
opera
111
Faust Symphony
Liszt
Tenor part
June 1998
Studio
symphonic
112
La Dolores
Bretón
Lázaro
July 1998
Studio
opera/zarzuela
1999
113
Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler
Tenor part
February 1999
Studio
symphonic
114
Misa Tango
Bacalov
Tenor part
February 1999
Studio
oratorio
115
The Queen of Spades
Tchaikovsky
Hermann
18 March 1999
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
116
Fidelio
Beethoven
Florestan
June 1999
Studio
opera
117
Merlin
Albéniz
King Arthur
July 1999
Orquesta Nacional de España , Madrid
Studio
opera
118
Margarita la tornera
Chapí
Don Juan de Alarcón
11 December 1999
Teatro Real
Madrid
zarzuela
2000
119
La Gran Vía
Chueca
Caballero de Gracía
January 2000
Studio
zarzuela
120
The Merry Widow
Lehár
Danilo (tenor or baritone)
17 February 2000
Metropolitan Opera
New York
operetta
121
La battaglia di Legnano
Verdi
Arrigo
30 June 2000
Royal Opera House
London
opera
2001
122
La Revoltosa
Chapí
Felipe
January 2001
Studio
zarzuela
2002
123
Sly
Wolf-Ferrari
Christopher Sly
1 April 2002
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
2003
124
Luisa Fernanda
Torroba
Vidal Hernando (baritone)
18 June 2003
Teatro alla Scala
Milan
zarzuela
125
Nicholas and Alexandra
Drattell
Rasputin
14 September 2003
Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles
opera
2005
126
Tristan und Isolde
Wagner
Tristan
January 2005
EMI Abbey Road Studio 1 , London
Studio
opera
127
Cyrano de Bergerac
Alfano
Cyrano
13 May 2005
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
128
Pepita Jiménez
Albéniz
Don Luis de Vargas
June 2005
Studio
opera
2006
129
Edgar
Puccini
Edgar
2006
Studio
opera
130
The First Emperor
Tan
Emperor Qin
21 December 2006
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
2007
131
Iphigénie en Tauride
Gluck
Oreste (mix of baritone and tenor versions)[ 5]
27 November 2007
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
2008
132
Tamerlano
Handel
Bajazet
26 March 2008
Teatro Real
Madrid
opera
2009
133
Simon Boccanegra
Verdi
Simon Boccanegra (baritone)
24 October 2009
Berlin State Opera
Berlin
opera
2010
134
La Nuit de Mai
Leoncavallo
Tenor part
2010
Studio
symphonic
135
I Medici
Leoncavallo
Giuliano Medici
2010
Studio
opera
136
Rigoletto
Verdi
Rigoletto (baritone)
1 August 2010
Reignwood Theater
Beijing
opera
137
Il Postino
Catán
Pablo Neruda
23 September 2010
Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles
opera
2011
138
The Enchanted Island
Various
Neptune
31 December 2011
Metropolitan Opera
New York
pasticcio /opera
2012
139
Thaïs
Massenet
Athanaël (baritone)
25 March 2012
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía
Valencia
opera
140
I due Foscari
Verdi
Francesco Foscari (baritone)
15 September 2012
Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles
opera
2013
141
La traviata
Verdi
Giorgio Germont (baritone)
14 March 2013
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
142
Nabucco
Verdi
Nabucco (baritone)
15 April 2013
Royal Opera House
London
opera
143
Giovanna d'Arco
Verdi
Giacomo (baritone)
6 August 2013
Salzburg Festival
Salzburg
opera
144
Il trovatore
Verdi
Conte di Luna (baritone)
29 November 2013
Schiller Theater
Berlin
opera
2015
145
Macbeth
Verdi
Macbeth (baritone)
7 February 2015
Schiller Theater
Berlin
opera
146
Ernani
Verdi
Don Carlo (baritone)
20 March 2015
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
147
Gianni Schicchi
Puccini
Gianni Schicchi (baritone)
12 September 2015
Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles
opera
2017
148
Don Carlo
Verdi
Rodrigo di Posa (baritone)
11 June 2017
Wiener Staatsoper
Wien
opera
2018
149
Luisa Miller
Verdi
Miller (baritone)
29 March 2018
Metropolitan Opera
New York
opera
150
Les pêcheurs de perles
Bizet
Zurga (baritone)
23 August 2018
Salzburg Festival
Salzburg
opera
2019
151
El gato montés
Penella
Juanillo (baritone)
4 May 2019
Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles
opera
2022
152
Aida
Verdi
Amonasro (baritone)
25 August 2022
Verona Arena
Verona
opera
Additional roles (partial)
Major opera house and festival debuts
See also
References
^ "Review: In his 151st role, Plácido Domingo plays the 'wild cat' as old lion" by Mark Swed , Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2019
^ "Domingo's 151st role" , operachaser.blogspot.com
^ Official repertoire list , placidodomingo.com
^ Tim Page , "Domingo's Debut" (Referring to his becoming general director of the Washington National Opera in 1996), The Washington Post , 11 November 1996, via pulitzer.org. Retrieved 29 June 2013
^ Midgette, Anne (8 May 2011). "In Iphigenie en Tauride , Placido Domingo still shines" . The Washington Post . Retrieved 5 August 2015 . [I]n Iphigenie , Domingo combines the baritone and tenor versions of the role.
^ "Compositions" . andrewlloydwebber.com . Retrieved 14 September 2015 .
^ Opera house debuts Retrieved from archive.org
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