Plácido Domingo is a world-renowned, multifaceted artist: now in his seventies, he is recognised as one of the finest and most influential singing actors in the history of opera, yet he is also a respected conductor and a major force as an opera administrator, in his role as general director of Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera.

As a singer, Domingo’s repertoire encompasses 130 stage rôles—a number unmatched by any other celebrated tenor in history. His more than 100 recordings of complete operas, compilations of arias and duets, and crossover discs include Deutsche Grammophon’s anthology of the complete Verdi arias for tenor and EMI’s albums of Wagnerian rôles that he has not sung on stage: Siegfried in both Siegfried ...