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In the Thread: Placido Domingo... conducting.
Post Subject: Domingo as conductorPosted by dazzdax on: 12/29/2007
I've heard this performance of Roméo et Juliette during a live broadcast on Dutch radio. Placido Domingo as a conductor: a reliable conductor but further nothing special. Placido is of course singer in the first place. It becomes clear to me that he is treating the orchestra as one big voice generating apparatus with giant vocal cords. But a singer is a singer and an orchestra is an orchestra: they require different techniques and method of phrasing. I think Placido phrases his orchestra in the same way a singer does when he is singing: it is sometimes too "belcanto" and too "pretty" for me.
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