The man dubbed ‘the greatest operatic artist of modern times’ is about to open in a little-known version of Cyrano de Bergerac. Placido Domingo tells Jessica Duchen why, at 65, he sings on
[Independent, 21 April 2006]
In New York, a headline dubbed it “The Schnozz”. But Franco Alfano’s opera Cyrano de Bergerac is about more than the super-sized snout that the unfortunate hero declares “precedes me by 15 minutes”: it presents an unusual and thrilling challenge for its starring tenor. When it opens at Covent Garden next week – a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where it has been highly acclaimed – the role of Cyrano is played by a singer who must be its perfect protagonist: Placido Domingo.