Repertoire of Plácido Domingo

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 Berliner Staatsoper, 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 (right) as the Conte di Luna in Il trovatore with Riccardo Zanellato at the 2014 Salzburg Festival

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 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 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 Sofia 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

Additional roles (partial)

Year # Title Composer Role Debut date Opera house /
Studio recording
Location Genre
1957 1 Gigantes y cabezudos Fernández Caballero Baritone part 1957 Mexico City zarzuela
1958-9 2 Luisa Fernanda Moreno Torroba Javier & other parts 1958 Veracruz zarzuela
3 El gato montés Penella Rafael Ruiz 1958 Mexico opera
4 La calesera Alonso Baritone part 1958/1959 Mexico zarzuela
5 El balcón de palacio Romo Baritone part 1958/1959 Mexico zarzuela
6 Katiuska, la mujer rusa Sorozábal Baritone part 1958/1959 Mexico zarzuela
7 Los gavilanes Guerrero Baritone part 1958/1959 Mexico zarzuela
1959 8 Mi bella dama (My Fair Lady) Loewe Alfie Doolittle's friend 19 January 1959 Teatro María Teresa Montoya Monterrey musical
9 Marina Arrieta Pascual (bass or baritone) 12 May 1959 Teatro Degollado Guadalajara opera/zarzuela
1960 10 La Pelirroja (The Readhead) Hague The Tenor 11 February 1960 Teatro de los Insurgentes Mexico City musical
1961 11 Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti Arturo 28 October 1961 Palacio de Bellas Artes Guadalajara opera
1962 12 Ninth Symphony Beethoven Tenor part 10 August 1962 Mexico City symphonic
1965 13 Messiah Händel Tenor part 10 December 1965 Boston oratorio
1966 14 Elijah Mendelssohn Tenor part 26 May 1966 Mexico City oratorio
1967 15 Creation Mass Haydn Tenor part 23 February 1967 Boston oratorio
1969 16 Requiem Verdi Tenor part 20 May 1969 London oratorio
1970 17 Missa Solemnis Beethoven Tenor part 23 May 1970 St. Peter's Basilica Rome oratorio
1984 18 Requiem Lloyd Webber Tenor part 1984 (studio)
25 February 1985 (live)

St. Thomas Church
Studio
New York[6]
oratorio
1989 19 Goya: A Life in Song Yeston Goya March 1989 Studio musical
1998 20 Luna Cano Antonio 15 June 1998 Palau de la Música de València Valencia opera
2003 21 Christus am Ölberge Beethoven Jesus 2003 Studio oratorio

Major opera house and festival debuts

Year[7] Opera house / Festival Opera
1965 New York City Opera Madama Butterfly
1966 Gran Teatre del Liceu Carlota,
Severino,
La mulata de Córdoba
1967 Hamburg State Opera Tosca
Vienna State Opera Don Carlo
1968 Metropolitan Opera Adriana Lecouvreur
Lyric Opera of Chicago Manon Lescaut
1969 Verona Arena Turandot
San Francisco Opera La bohème
Teatro alla Scala Ernani
1970 Teatro de la Zarzuela La Gioconda
Edinburgh Festival Missa Solemnis
1971 Royal Opera House Tosca
1972 Bavarian State Opera La bohème
1973 Paris Opéra Il trovatore
1975 Salzburg Festival Don Carlo
1986 Los Angeles Opera Otello
Washington National Opera Goya (Menotti)
1992 Bayreuth Festival Parsifal

See also

References

  1. Review: In his 151st role, Plácido Domingo plays the ‘wild cat’ as old lion
  2. Domingo's 151st role
  3. Official repertoire list
  4. Tim Page, "Domingo's Debut" (Referring to his becoming General Director of the Washington National Opera in 1996), The Washington Post, 11 November 1996 on pulitzer.org. Retrieved 29 June 2013
  5. Midgette, Anne (8 May 2011). "In 'Iphigenie en Tauride,' Placido Domingo still shines". Washington Post. Retrieved 5 August 2015. [I]n 'Iphigenie,' Domingo combines the baritone and tenor versions of the role.
  6. "Compositions". http://www.andrewlloydwebber.com. Retrieved 14 September 2015. External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. Opera house debuts Retrieved from archive.org
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