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Royal opera recruits Domingo to ride out recession
Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:06am EDT
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Royal Opera House has recruited tenor Placido Domingo to help ride out the recession next season with a historic double in which he sings tenor in Handel's "Tamerlano" and baritone in Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra."
The Spanish singer marks his 26th role with the opera house when he appears in Tamerlano in March, 2010, and debuts as a baritone at the venue in Simon Boccanegra three months later.
"I have felt very much at home at Covent Garden ever since I first appeared there in 1971, and I am a great admirer of (music director) Tony Pappano and his accomplishments with the Royal Opera," Domingo said Wednesday as the season was announced.
"It will be a joy for me to return there next season and present my two most recent roles to the London public," he added in a statement.
With a reputation for expensive ticket prices and high production costs, the Royal Opera House is braced for a tough season in 2009/10.
But despite planning the repertoire before the global financial crisis struck, it stuck to the original program.
"There are a lot of opera houses all over the world with big decisions about having to change repertoires," Pappano told reporters. "We felt that was, for us, not the way to go."
Royal Opera House chief executive Tony Hall said the company's reputation could suffer if audiences felt it was taking less risks and resorting to tried and tested hits.
"The worst thing that happens is that people get cynical about what you do."
Hall said he hoped the opera house, also called Covent Garden after the area of London where it is located, would break even by the end of the current season.
"So far audiences are really holding up," he said.
MAY BE A "BUBBLE"
But he was cautious about the future, saying ticket prices would not be raised at the start of next season and that they would be reviewed every three months.
And while corporate funding had been hit by the credit crunch, individual donors had helped make up for the shortfall.
"We may be in a bubble. I hope we're not. This season strikes me as a fantastic season to roll out in a recession." Continued...
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