Showing posts with label the Arena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Arena. Show all posts

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Verona 2013

It's funny how things change, isn't it? When I was a teenager, the Beatles were my idols. Now it's Placido Domingo. So last year when we were in Verona, and the Arena announced a Gala event scheduled for this year (2013) with Placido Domingo appearing, we immediately bought tickets.


I think I am so lucky to have heard his magnificent voice, live. And it may be one of his last performances; he was ill in July and has been told to retire.

But will he? To perform may hasten his death- but I suspect that for someone like him, to give up singing will be a different sort of death, and possibly just as fatal.


It was a great experience to see such a master perform- even if it was mostly Wagner!

Going home, after the opera.