In the first of nine programmes featuring performances by the great tenor, Michael Oliver goes back to Domingo's Spanish roots with a Spanish operetta, or zarzuela. Torroba Luisa Fernanda
Written to a libretto by Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernandez
Shaw, the work is set in the time of Queen Isabella II in the mid-19th century. The heroine is being courted by a rich landowner named Vidal, but is in love with Javier. a young man who has risen from humble origins to be a colonel in the royal hussars.
Luisa Fernanda VERONICA VILLAROEL (sop)
Javier PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)
Vidal Hernando JUAN PONS (bar)
Chorus of Madrid Polytechnic University, Madrid Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antoni Ros Marba Discs
Next Saturday, Placido Domingo takes the title role in Verdi's Emani