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...Miami-Dade County Auditorium when the scheduled tenor fell ill. Just three months later, he debuted at Milan's La Scala in La Bohème - and never looked back. His fame multiplied with major televised performances in the 1970s and 1980s, and eventually his teaming up with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras to form the Three Tenors...
...world's opera houses, he turned to solo concerts in such big venues as sports arenas, convention centers, even a circus tent. He issued a slew of commercial recordings, racking up sales that gave pop stars like Elton John a run for their money. He barnstormed with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras as "The Three Tenors," favoring spectacular settings like the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, which in turn yielded still more recordings and TV specials. "I want to be famous everywhere," he said...
...style as he hit the high C's and gripped his ever-present white dinner napkin. He achieved worldwide fame with live television appearances, both of classical operas and duets with such singers as Stevie Wonder and Celine Dion. He is also one-third of the Three Tenors, alongside Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras...
...that glittering opening night of The First Emperor as a movie-critic. The title role is sung by Placido Domingo, who in the 80s displayed his celebrated tenor in movie versions of Cavallieri Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Traviata and Otello, all directed by Franco Zeffirelli. But I was mainly interested in the Chinese connection. I wanted to see ? hear, really ? what Tan Dun, the gifted composer who had won an Oscar for his scoring of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, would do with his epic subject. I also was eager to see the production, since it was to be staged by Zhang...
...Caimano he even gave up the lead role, to Orlando. "I wanted to abandon that [self-referencing] persona," Moretti says. "Before that, there was me, me and me, with some other satellites around me." For the role of Berlusconi, Moretti spread the wealth: Italian star Michele Placido plays the part for a bit; a look-alike actor Elio De Capitani also takes on the role; and Berlusconi himself appears in real television footage. But Moretti reserves the last Berlusconi scene for his actor-of-choice: himself. In a chilling finale, the bearded director recites some of Berlusconi's bitterest words...