Plácido Domingo and other stars culminate the opera season in Spain



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Madrid, July 25 (Prensa Latina) The Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo will close today the opera season which began in 2017 at the Teatro Real of this capital, where he will be accompanied again by other stars lyric in the international arena.
Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho and German tenor Jonas Kaufmann will perform together with Domingo in this Colosseum to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its reopening and the bicentennial of its foundation, said the institution in the first segment of the concert . Wednesday Kaufmann will include operatic arias by French composers Camille Sain, Camille Saint-Saens, Charles Gounod; in addition to Georges Bizet, Jacques F. Halévy and Jules Mbadenet, important author known for his operas of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

During the second half of the recital, there will be Wagnerian tunes of Valquiria; The master singers of Nuremberg; and Lohengrin

The lyrical program of July 26 will present the two best-known operas of Mbadenet (1842-1912): Manon (1884) and Werther (1992).

The work Thais (1894), by Mbadenet, recently performed by Domingo, after the American lyric soprano Renée Fleming, will also arrive on Thursday

This is a play based on a libretto by Louis Gallet , who based this writing on the Anatole novel of the same name. France, supported in its turn in the historical Thais and that the famous Spanish singer took to discover in the composition a great role of baritone in the character of the monk Athanael.

Domingo created this role in 2012 at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia to commemorate the centenary of Mbadenet's death, and since then has played the brother several times.

With soprano Jaho-tripper at the Teatro Real with La Traviata, Desdemona de Otello and Madama Butterfly- The performer At the beginning of this year, he played the role of Blessed in China and at the National Center for the Arts. the scene in Beijing

The plot is sustained when the two protagonists begin a turbulent path in which the monk proposes to straighten out the vital path of the prostitute converts her to Christianity and ascetic life.

Thais was created at the Teatro Real in 1916 and since then it has been until the closing of the theater in 1925.

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