A world-renowned eclectic artist. Acknowledged as one of the finest opera singers, Domingo is also a conductor and has been Honorary Artistic Director of the Arena di Verona Centennial Festival, as well as General Manager of the Los Angeles Opera and the Washington National Opera.
His repertoire includes more than 150 roles, an achievement unmatched by any other singer, with over 4,400 performances. He has made over a hundred recordings, over 50 videos and 12 Grammy Awards. He has starred in three feature film of the operas: CARMEN by Rosi, LA TRAVIATA and OTELLO by Zeffirelli. His Cavaradossi, followed by over a billion people live on television from Rome, in the places and at the times of TOSCA, is historic.
Experimenter of the dialogue between bel canto and pop. Since 1990, he performed with Carreras and Pavarotti for over ten years in front of huge crowds and attracting new audiences to the opera. He interprets the world premieres of several operas and promotes Zarzuela in the world, following in his parents’s footsteps. He chairs the prestigious international singing competition Operalia, of which he is the founder, to discover and promote young singers.
In the last years was heard as the Count di Luna in IL TROVATORE in 2014 and has returned since then for concert performances of four other operas: as Athanaël in THAIS in 2016, as Francesco Foscari in I DUE FOSCARI in 2017, for his role debut as Zurga in LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES in 2018, as Miller in LUISA MILLER in 2019 and in the “Gala Concert Carmencita & Friends” in 2022.
In addition to singing, he also performs as a conductor. To his credit, he has conducted over 600 opera performances and symphony concerts with some of the most prestigious orchestras. Since 2009, he has dedicated himself to interpreting the great roles of the baritone repertoire, especially Verdi, performing on the world’s major stages.
Recent highlights include returns to Madrid: in 2021 to the Auditorio Nacional and in 2022 to the Teatro Real. In January 2023 he appeared on stage in Tokyo together with José Carreras; he performed two liederabend: in Palm Beach and at the Bayerische Statsoper and during 2023 he made concerts in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Monte-Carlo, Portugal, Switzerland and around the world in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, in Mexico and South America, in Korea and China. He brought his singing competition Operalia to South Africa.
After the pandemic started its activity again and in the summer of 2020, he was awarded with the Austrian Music Theatre Prize for his lifetime achievements. Highly acclaimed concerts followed at the Royal Palace of Caserta (Naples) and at La Scala. In January 2021 he celebrated his 80th birthday at the Vienna State Opera with a performance of NABUCCO, broadcast live on ORF, and in April 2024 he again performed Nabucco in concert in Paris and then a tournée in Latin America and Japan and on May 2024 he sang an extraordinary concert celebrating his 50th anniversary since his debut in Salzburg, at Grosses Festspielhaus, surrounded by internationally renowned artists on a historic evening. In July 2024 he performed a special concert at the Olympic Stadium in Athens with José Carreras. In 2021 he is appointed “Honorary Ambassador of the World Heritage of Spain” and awarded by the Spanish Association of Foreign Press Correspondents “for his immense professional trajectory”. He has been described as a “Renaissance man” by critics and has received numerous awards for his contribution to the arts and his humanitarian commitment, including The Presidential Medal of Freedom, Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur, Honorary Knighthood, Orden del Águila Azteca en México, Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil Isabel la Católica and honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, New York and Salamanca, CC Forum Award for humanitarian commitment.
His extraordinary artistic career has continued uninterruptedly for more than half a century.
