
Plácido Domingo
Department: Acting
Biography
Although born in Madrid, Spain, Placido Domingo spent a major portion of his life living in Mexico City where he graduated from the Mexico City Conservatory. His first operatic performance was in a staging of La Traviata in Monterrey playing Alfredo. He was then a Tenor for the Israel National Opera and subsequently moved to Europe.
Known For

The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996

Moulin Rouge!
2001

Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
1983

Helene Fischer - Weihnachten - Live aus der Hofburg Wien
2015

Macbeth
2018

Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
2008

Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca
1993

Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
1990

Giuseppe Verdi: I due Foscari
2016

Hollywoods Oper - Eine Oper für Los Angeles
2006

Gran Gala di Verdi
2001

The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994
1994

La traviata
1982

The Three Tenors Christmas
1999

The Original Three Tenors Concert
1990

Mariinsky Theatre
2008

Penella - El Gato Montés
—

The First Emperor
2007

Gala de Reyes: Los Tres Tenores
1998
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Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
2010

Mariachi: The Spirit of Mexico
2003

Cavalleria rusticana
1982

Il Volo: Notte Magica - A Tribute To The Three Tenors 2016
2016

Verdi: Otello
1976

Christmas in Vienna
1992

Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffman
1981

Tiempo de Zarzuela
2023

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem
1986

Amor, vida de mi vida: Zarzuelas
2009

Merry Christmas from Vienna
1996

The Book of Life
2014

Turandot
1987

Il Trovatore - Verdi
1978

Berlioz: Les Troyens
1983

Rigoletto
1977

Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber
2010

Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann
2019

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
1995

Night of 100 Stars II
1985

The Three Tenors: From Caracalla To The World
2020

Plácido Domingo Gala
2019

Otello
1992

Great Tenor Performances
1999

Puccini: Manon Lescaut
1980

Meyerbeer: L'Africaine
1988

Samson et Dalila
1998

Tosca
1976

Carmen
1984

Carmen
1978

The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
2009

Otello
1995

Puccini's Madama Butterfly
1974

Aida
1989

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
1981

Samson et Dalila
1981

Das Waldbühnen-Konzert
2006

Francesca da Rimini
1984

La Gioconda
1986

Andrea Chénier
1985

Il Trovatore
2013

Fedora
1997

Manon Lescaut
1983

La Fanciulla Del West
1991

Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac
2007

Karajan's Magic and Myth
2014

Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration
2024

Simon Boccanegra - Teatro La Scala Milano
2010

Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
1994

Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998

Verdi Nabucco
2015

Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
1975

In Concert at The Met
2010

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
1983

Don Carlo
1983

Verdi Ernani
1982

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
1996

Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
1990

The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
2012

Carmen
1997

Il Trovatore
2014

Carmen
1988

Christmas In Vienna VI
1998

A Gala Christmas in Vienna
1998

Pagliacci
1987

Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
2007

Luisa Fernanda
2006

Tosca
1985

The ROH Live: Nabucco
2016

Handel: Tamerlano
2008

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
1978

Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci
1976

Georges Bizet: Carmen
1980

The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
2011

Gold and Silver Gala with Placido Domingo
1996

Rigoletto a Mantova
2010

Otello
1986

Hommage a Sevilla
1981

Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas
1987

Royal Opera House: I Due Foscari
2015
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The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera]
1999

Verdi: Nabucco
2017

Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
1995

Stiffelio - The Met
1993

La Traviata - The Met
1981

Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
1979

La Forza del Destino - The Met
1996

La Fanciulla del West
1992

Otello - The Met
1979

Verdi: Macbeth
2019

Royal Opera House: La Traviata
2019

Macbeth
2016

Pavarotti
2019

Cantos Aztecas
1988

Karajan: Beauty As I See It
2008

Andrea Chenier
1981

Otello
2001

I Am La Scala
2016

Tosca
1986

The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
1983

Gianni Schicchi
2015

The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller
2018

The Three Tenors - The Lost Concerts
2017

Massenet: Thaïs
2008

Lohengrin
1990

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
2007

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
2010

Don Giovanni
2018

Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
1970

Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
1970

Three Tenors in Paris
1998

Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
2018

A Spanish Night - Domingo - Berliner Philharmoniker
2003

Sibelius - Violin Concerto / De Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain
2000

Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
2017

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida
1989

A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song
1992

Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...
2011

El corazón del Teatro Real
2018

To Play and to Fight
2007

Burnett Discovers Domingo
1984

Night of 100 Stars
1982

Plácido Domingo: At The Arena di Verona
2020

The Rodriguez and the Beyond
2019

The Sweet Taste of Success
2022

Die Fledermaus
1984

Cyrano de Bergerac
—

Love Duets
2021

Europakonzert 1992 from Madrid
1992

Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love
2004

FIFA 2006 Germany World Cup Opening Ceremony
2006

The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991
1991

The Mariinsky II Opening Gala
2015

14 Short Films About Opera
2025

La fanciulla del West
1982

Symphony for the Spire
1992

Cento e oltre. Puccini e noi
2025

Verdi: Otello
2008

Andrea Bocelli - The Celebration:30th Anniversary
2025

The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend
2024

Wagner Lohengrin
—

Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem
2006

The Simpsons
1989

Fox News Sunday
1996

The Cosby Show
1984

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

The Big Show
1980

Pebble Mill
1991

The Oscars
1953

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978

Masterclass
2010

Wetten, dass..?
1981

Einer wird gewinnen
1964

Wogan
1982

Flitterabend
1988

Verstehen Sie Spaß?
1980

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Goldene Kamera
1984

Bambi
1948

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

RTL-Spendenmarathon
1996

En la tuya o en la mía
2015

Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
2004

Auf los geht's los
1977

Legends
2006

Viña del Mar International Song Festival
1963

Mozart in the Jungle
2014

Beckmann
1999

Stöckl
2013

Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre
1971

Das Sonntagskonzert
1969

Great Performances
1971

Great Performances
1971

Great Performances
1971

Great Performances
1971

Great Performances
1971

Das aktuelle Sportstudio
1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

El hormiguero
2006

Omnibus
1967

Kulturzeit
1995

Schöne Stimmen
1972

Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
1994