By Tim Page [Washington Post, 11 January 2007]

Washington National Opera General Director Placido Domingo will make his first-ever appearance in a baroque opera when he takes on the role of Bajazet in Handel's "Tamerlano" with the opera next spring. It will be the 127th operatic part that the tenor, who turns 66 on Jan. 21, will have sung in what will by then be a half-century-long career.