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Kindheartedness isn't the most renowned idiosyncrasy of New York City cabdrivers, but Placido Domingo lucked out when he left his briefcase in the back of a Gotham taxi. Driver Kobina Wood turned in the case, which contained family pictures, copies of the prayers Domingo says before each performance and the score of the show he's currently performing. The tenor sent the cabby tickets. Another opera fan is born...
Born in Spain and raised in Mexico, Domingo is conservative and internationalist in his outlook, and his agenda for the Washington Opera reflects his more conventional programming taste. In addition to the standard Italian and French fare the company has traditionally presented, he plans a foray into the German repertoire with new productions of Richard Strauss's operas as well as Wagner's Ring cycle, the calling card of major opera companies worldwide. "We chose him because he is a consummate musician," says Patricia L. Mossel, the company's executive director. "He knows voices. He is a very fine pianist...
...director will continue his busy singing career, but he insists that he will be more than just a figurehead and that his outside connections can be an advantage for the company. "I know some of the people are giving money for productions because I am there," says Domingo, who last week was appearing in Vienna. "And I will take responsibility at any moment that it is required, even if it is a problem with unions or rediscussing contracts, so that I can add whatever I have learned in this business...
...opera, it plans to move out of the Kennedy Center entirely. Thanks to an $18 million gift from Mrs. Eugene B. Casey, chairman of the board, the company has acquired the old Woodward & Lothrop department store in downtown Washington. After some political wrangling, including a videotaped deposition from Domingo, the city approved a zoning variance so that the store could be converted into an opera house. Scheduled to open in 2001, it will cost more than $100 million. "I hope that our opera house will rival the world's top houses," says city council member Charlene Drew Jarvis, who chairs...
Just as in politics, the air in Washington these days is filled with talk of bi-partisan cooperation, and no one would be surprised to see Domingo, who has thus far largely limited his conducting to opera, waving a baton in front of the National Symphony. Indeed, Slatkin has already agreed to conduct an as yet to be determined opera with Domingo's company next fall. "We will have many collaborations," notes Domingo, "with Leonard coming to the opera and me going to the orchestra. I hope that at the end of the Slatkin-Domingo era, something special has happened...