Plácido Domingo Sings Zarzuelas

Plácido Domingo 
Photographer: Fiorenzo Niccoli

Plácido Domingo Sings Zarzuelas

Müpa Budapest — Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

9 October, 2022 | 7.30 pm

Featuring: María José Siri – soprano, Airam Hernández – tenor, Hungarian National Philharmonic
Conductor: Jordi Bernàcer

The zarzuela is a long-established genre of Spanish musical theatre, dating back to the early decades of the Baroque period, and also becoming popular in a number of Spanish-speaking countries outside Spain. A distinctive feature is that prose and vocal parts alternate in it, and the music – which extends from arias to popular songs – is not just a decoration, but plays a decisive part in the dramaturgy. Plácido Domingo considers it important to maintain the tradition of this genre, as his parents were world-famous zarzuela performers and his own world-conquering career started in this milieu. “Zarzuela was the music,” he once said, “my parents devoted their lives to, and it made me decide to support young zarzuela singers.” At his concert in Müpa Budapest, he will be accompanied by the Hungarian National Philharmonic, conducted by Jordi Bernàcer, resident conductor of the San Francisco Opera.

Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.

Programme booklet

Müpa Budapest — Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

9 October, 2022 | 7.30 pm

Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.

Programme booklet

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