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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Placido Domingo tries out Verdi baritone role, but he still sounds like a tenor

The notes were all there. The voice had its familiar warm and muscular sound. The technique remains rock-solid. And yet ... It seems that no amount of hard work or willpower could transform Placido Domingo into the baritone for whom Verdi wrote the title role of his opera "Simon Boccanegra." That gradually became apparent on Saturday night.

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