It is probably not unkind to say that as Plácido Domingo is entering his seventh decade that he has reached the twilight of a singing career that has occupied all but 16 of his years. And a distinguished, remarkable career it has been, one that contains numerous milestones created on behalf of little vocal literature -- his recording of Manuel Penella's zarzuela El Gato Montés, for example -- in addition to his expected star turns in mainstream opera. One work that definitely can use some love is Ruggero Leoncavallo's ...
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It is probably not unkind to say that as Plácido Domingo is entering his seventh decade that he has reached the twilight of a singing career that has occupied all but 16 of his years. And a distinguished, remarkable career it has been, one that contains numerous milestones created on behalf of little vocal literature -- his recording of Manuel Penella's zarzuela El Gato Montés, for example -- in addition to his expected star turns in mainstream opera. One work that definitely can use some love is Ruggero Leoncavallo's symphonic poem La Nuit de mai (1895), a setting of an Alfred de Musset poem in the original French that Leoncavallo undertook through sheer love of its text, only to see its intended premiere defeated by a rift in Franco-Italian political relations. La Nuit de mai is so obscure that even Grove's mistakenly lists it as a choral work; however, it has been recorded a couple of times by undistinguished singers on European labels. By virtue of recording La Nuit de mai for Deutsche Grammophon...
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