Plácido Domingo was born in Madrid, Spain, and moved to Mexico at age 8 with his family, who ran a zarzuela company. In Mexico City he studied music at the National Conservatory. He provided backup vocals for Los Black Jeans in 1958, a rock-and-roll band lead by César Costa. He learned piano and conducting, but made his stage debut in 1959 (May 12) at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara as Pascual in Marina. It was followed by Borsa in Rigoletto, Padre Confessor (Le dialogue des Carmelites) and others. In 1962 he joined the Israeli National Opera in Tel Aviv, where he spent two and a half years, singing 280 performances.
On September 19, 1985, the biggest earthquake in Mexico's history devastated the whole Mexican capital. Domingo's aunt, uncle, his nephew and his nephew’s young son were killed in the collapse of the Nuevo León apartment block in the Tlatelolco housing complex. Domingo himself labored to rescue survivors. During the next year, he did benefit concerts for the victims and released an album of one of the events.
In 1966, he sang the title role in the US premiere of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at the New York City Opera, with much acclaim. He first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on September 28, 1968, in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, singing with Renata Tebaldi. (Since then, he has opened the season there 21 times, surpassing the previous record of Enrico Caruso by four.) He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1967, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1968, at both La Scala and San Francisco Opera in 1969, and at Covent Garden in 1971, and has now sung at practically every other important opera house and festival worldwide.
Perhaps the most versatile of all living tenors, Domingo has sung 92 roles onstage to date (and as many as 123 roles when also counting recorded roles), ranging from Mozart to Ginastera. His main repertoire however is Italian (Otello, Il Trovatore, Don Carlo), French (Faust, Werther, Don José in Carmen, Samson in Samson et Dalila), and German (Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Siegmund in Die Walküre). He continues to add more operas to his repertoire, such as recently Franco Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac at the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House in London.
With José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, he participated in The Three Tenors concert at the opening of the 1990 World Cup in Rome. The event was originally conceived to raise money for the José Carreras International Leukemia Foundation and was later repeated a number of times, including at the three subsequent World Cup finals (1994 in Los Angeles, 1998 in Paris, and 2002 in Yokohama). Alone, Domingo again made an appearance at the final of the 2006 World Cup in Berlin.
In what has been called his 'final career move', Placido Domingo announced on January 25, 2007 that in 2009 he would switch ranges to baritone by taking on one of Verdi's most demanding baritone roles, as the Doge of Genoa, Simon Boccanegra, in the opera of the same name.
Nostalgias
Plácido Domingo Lyrics
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para olvidar un loco amor
que más que amor es un sufrir
Y aquí vengo para eso,
a borrar antiguos besos
en las besos de otras bocas
¿Porqué causa siempre es mía
esa cruel preocupación?
Quiero por los dos mi copa alzar
para olvidar mi obstinación
y más la vuelvo a recordar
Nostalgia de escuchar su risa loca
y sentir junto a mi boca
como un fuego su respiración
Angustia de sentirme abandonado
y pensar que otro a su lado
pronto, pronto le hablará de amor
¡Hermano! Yo no quiero rebajarme
ni pedirle, ni llorarle, ni decirle
que no puedo más vivir
Desde mi triste soledad
veré caer las rosas
muertas de mi juventud.
Gime, bandoneón, tu tango gris,
quizá a ti te hiera igual
algún amor sentimental
Llora mi alma de fantoche
sola y triste en esta noche,
noche negra y sin estrellas
Si las copas traen consuelo
aquí estoy con mi desvelo
para ahogarlo de una vez
Quiero emborrachar al corazón
para después poder brindar
por los fracasos del amor
Nostalgia de escuchar su risa loca
y sentir junto a mi boca
como un fuego su respiración
Angustia de sentirme abandonado
y pensar que otro a su lado
pronto, pronto le hablará de amor
¡Hermano! Yo no quiero rebajarme
ni pedirle, ni llorarle, ni decirle
que no puedo más vivir
Desde mi triste soledad
veré caer las rosas
muertas de mi juventud
The lyrics to Plácido Domingo's song "Nostalgias" are about a person who wants to drown their heart in alcohol to forget about a past love that only brought them suffering. The singer wants to erase the memories of their past love by kissing other lips and drinking until they forget. However, they are plagued with the thought that their past love only caused them pain, and wonder why they are still consumed by this cruel obsession. The singer is reluctant to seek out their past love and plead for them to take them back, and instead chooses to drown their sorrows and reminisce about the past.
Despite the desire to forget about their past love, the singer cannot help but feel a sense of longing for their touch and presence. They are tormented by the thought of their past love being with someone else, and cannot help but feel abandoned and alone. However, they refuse to beg for their past love's affection, as they do not want to lower themselves in their eyes. Ultimately, the singer is resigned to their fate of being alone and watching the roses of their youth wither away.
Overall, "Nostalgias" is a melancholic song about heartbreak, longing, and the difficult process of moving on from a past love.
Line by Line Meaning
Quiero emborrachar mi corazón
I want to drown my heart with alcohol
para olvidar un loco amor
to forget a crazed love
que más que amor es un sufrir
which is more like to suffer than to love.
Y aquí vengo para eso,
And here I come for that,
a borrar antiguos besos
to erase old kisses
en las besos de otras bocas
with the kisses of other lips
Si su amor fue flor de un día
If their love was a fleeting flower
¿Porqué causa siempre es mía
why is it always my burden
esa cruel preocupación?
this cruel concern?
Quiero por los dos mi copa alzar
I want to raise my glass for both of us
para olvidar mi obstinación
to forget my stubbornness
y más la vuelvo a recordar
and yet I remember it again.
Nostalgia de escuchar su risa loca
Longing to hear their wild laughter
y sentir junto a mi boca
and feel next to my mouth
como un fuego su respiración
like a fire their breath
Angustina de sentirme abandonado
Distress of feeling abandoned
y pensar que otro a su lado
and thinking that someone else by their side
pronto, pronto le hablará de amor
will soon speak to them of love.
¡Hermano! Yo no quiero rebajarme
Brother! I don't want to degrade myself
ni pedirle, ni llorarle, ni decirle
nor ask, nor cry, nor tell them
que no puedo más vivir
that I can't live anymore
Desde mi triste soledad
From my sad solitude
veré caer las rosas
I'll see the roses fall
muertas de mi juventud.
dead from my youth.
Gime, bandoneón, tu tango gris,
Moan, bandoneón, your gray tango,
quizá a ti te hiera igual
maybe it hurts you too
algún amor sentimental
some sentimental love.
Llora mi alma de fantoche
My soul cries like a puppet
sola y triste en esta noche,
alone and sad in this night
noche negra y sin estrellas
black night without stars.
Si las copas traen consuelo
If the glasses bring comfort
aquí estoy con mi desvelo
here I am with my restlessness
para ahogarlo de una vez
to drown it once and for all.
por los fracasos del amor
for the failures of love.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: ENRIQUE DOMINGO CADICAMO, JUAN CARLOS COBIAN
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@corsacentro1
Hermosa interpretación de Domingo a un hermoso tango de Enrique Cadícamo y de Juan Carlos Cobián en letra y música respectivamente. Gran tema.
@marciobadra2339
Não é por acaso que o Plácido Domingo é considerado o melhor tenor da história.
@simoneaparecidapires589
Linda interpretação . 👍💜
@cesarsanchez89
Llora mi alma de fantoche, esta noche negra y sin estrellas. Desde mi triste soledad, veré caer la rosa muerta de mi juventud. Quiero emborrachar el corazón para después poder brindar por los fracasos del amor
@nelsonvillalba8049
Maravilhoso
@emiliosalcedo2420
UN BELLO TANGO CANTADO POR UNA BELLA VOZ¡
@soyrobertosilva
Es otra cosa cuando lo cantan en otro idioma musical. Pero mi corazon esta con julio sosa, el polaco goyeneche. Se me pianta un lagrimon
@ivonnejaramillo3925
Sin duda, sin discusión posible, porque es un canalla quien lo cuestione... la mejor versión que siempre habrá es la de Hugo del Carril. Es la referencia ABSOLUTA
@nelidaiglesias4023
Sin dudas Hugo del Carril 👏👏👏👏
@joseneirascasal3053
EMOCIONANTE !