Plácido Domingo
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Andrea Bocelli - The Celebration：30th Anniversary
2025Cento e oltre. Puccini e noi as Plácido Domingo
202514 Short Films About Opera
2024Die Drei Tenöre - Geburt einer Legende as Self
2024Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration as Self
2023Tiempo de Zarzuela
2022The Sweet Taste of Success as Plácido Domingo
2021Love Duets as Conductor
2020The Three Tenors: From Caracalla To The World as Himself
2020Plácido Domingo: At The Arena di Verona
2019The Rodriguez and the Beyond as Agente Rodríguez
2019Plácido Domingo Gala as Nabucco / Macbeth / Simon Baccanegra
2019Pavarotti as Self
2019Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann
2019Royal Opera House: La Traviata as Giorgio Germont
2019Verdi: Macbeth as Macbeth
2018Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life as Himself
2018El corazón del Teatro Real as Self
2018Don Giovanni as Conductor
2018The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller as Miller
2018Macbeth as Macbeth
2017Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star as Self
2017The Three Tenors - The Lost Concerts as Self (archive footage)
2017Verdi: Nabucco as Nabucco
2016Il Volo: Notte Magica - A Tribute To The Three Tenors 2016
2016I Am La Scala as Self
2016The ROH Live: Nabucco as Nabucco
2016Giuseppe Verdi - I due Foscari as Francesco Foscari
2016Macbeth as Macbeth
2015Helene Fischer - Weihnachten - Live aus der Hofburg Wien as Self
2015Gianni Schicchi as Gianni Schicchi
2015En la tuya o en la mía as Self - Guest
2015Verdi Nabucco as Nabucco
2015Royal Opera House: I Due Foscari as Francesco Foscari
2015The Mariinsky II Opening Gala as Self
2014Karajan's Magic and Myth as Self
2014The Book of Life as Skeleton Jorge (voice)
2014Il Trovatore as Il Conte di Luna
2014Mozart in the Jungle as Plácido Domingo
2013Il Trovatore as Il conte di Luna
2013Stöckl as Self
2012The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche as Neptune
2011Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was... as Self
2011The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride as Orest
2010Rigoletto a Mantova as Rigoletto
2010Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber
2010Masterclass as Self
2010Simon Boccanegra - Teatro La Scala Milano as Simon Boccanegra
2010Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera] as Simon Boccanegra
2010The Met — Der Rosenkavalier as Self - Host
2010In Concert at The Met as Tenor
2009Amor, vida de mi vida: Zarzuelas as tenor
2009The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra as Self
2008Massenet: Thaïs as Self - Host
2008Mariinsky Theatre as Self
2008Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me as Self
2008Beverly Hills Chihuahua as Monte (voice)
2008Karajan: Beauty As I See It as Self (archive footage)
2008Verdi: Otello as Otello
2008Handel: Tamerlano as Bajazet
2007The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette as Self - Conductor
2007Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano di Bergerac
2007To Play and to Fight as Self - Interviewee / Trumpet
2007Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza as Self
2007The First Emperor as Emperor Qin
2006Das Waldbühnen-Konzert as Self
2006Legends as Self
2006El hormiguero as Self - Guest
2006FIFA 2006 Germany World Cup Opening Ceremony
2006Hollywoods Oper - Eine Oper für Los Angeles as Self
2006Luisa Fernanda as Vidal Hernando
2004Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel as Self
2004Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love as Self
2003A Spanish Night - Domingo - Berliner Philharmoniker
2003Mariachi: The Spirit of Mexico as Host & Narrator
2001Otello as Otello
2001Moulin Rouge! as Voice of Man in the Moon
2001Gran Gala di Verdi
2000Sibelius - Violin Concerto / De Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain as Self
1999The Three Tenors Christmas as Himself
1999The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera] as Gherman
1999Great Tenor Performances as Himself
1999Beckmann as Self
1998Christmas In Vienna VI as Self
1998Three Tenors in Paris as Self
1998A Gala Christmas in Vienna as Self
1998Samson et Dalila as Samson
1998Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998Gala de Reyes: Los Tres Tenores
1997Fedora as Loris Ipanov
1997Carmen as Don José
1996Merry Christmas from Vienna as Self - Tenor
1996Gold and Silver Gala with Placido Domingo
1996La Forza del Destino - The Met as Don Alvaro
1996RTL-Spendenmarathon as Self
1996The Transformation of the World Into Music as Self
1996Fox News Sunday
1996Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary as Self
1995Sinatra: 80 Years My Way as Self - Performer
1995Kulturzeit as Self (archive footage)
1995Otello as Otello
1995Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra as Gabriele Adorno
1994Il Tabarro & Pagliacci as Luigi
1994Tales from the Opera as Self
1994The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 as Self
1993Stiffelio - The Met
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca as Mario Cavaradossi
1992Christmas in Vienna as Self
1992A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song as Self - Singer
1992Otello as Otello
1992Europakonzert 1992 from Madrid as Self - Tenor
1992La Fanciulla del West as Dick Johnson o Ramerrez
1992Symphony for the Spire
1991Pebble Mill as Self
1991The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 as Self
1991La Fanciulla Del West as Dick Johnson alias Ramerrez
1990Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera as Gustavo
1990The Original Three Tenors Concert as Self - Tenor
1990Verdi: Un ballo in maschera as Gustavo III
1990Lohengrin as Lohengrin
1989The Simpsons as Plácido Domingo (voice)
1989The Metropolitan Opera: Aida
1989Aida as Radamès
1988Cantos Aztecas as Self - Solist
1988Carmen as Don José
1988Flitterabend as Self - Singer
1988Meyerbeer: L'Africaine as Vasco Da Gama
1987Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas as Self
1987Pagliacci as Canio
1987Turandot as Calaf
1986La Gioconda as Enzo
1986Otello as Otello
1986Tosca as Mario Cavaradossi
1986Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem
1985Andrea Chénier as Andrea Chénier
1985Tosca as Cavaradossi
1985Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984The Cosby Show as Alberto Santiago
1984Francesca da Rimini as Paolo Malatesta
1984Carmen as Don José
1984Goldene Kamera as Self
1984Burnett Discovers Domingo as Self
1984Die Fledermaus as Conductor
1983Berlioz: Les Troyens as Aeneas
1983Manon Lescaut as Des Grieux
1983Puccini's La Fanciulla del West as Dick Johnson
1983Don Carlo as Don Carlo
1983Mario Lanza: The American Caruso as Narrator
1983The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala as Self
1982La traviata as Alfredo Germont
1982La fanciulla del West as Dick Johnson
1982Verdi Ernani as Ernani
1982Cavalleria rusticana as Turiddu
1982Wogan as Self
1982Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981Andrea Chenier as Andrea Chénier
1981Hommage a Sevilla as Himself
1981Les Contes d'Hoffmann as Hoffmann
1981La Traviata - The Met as Alfredo Germont
1981Wetten, dass..? as Self
1981Samson et Dalila as Samson
1981Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffman
1980Georges Bizet: Carmen as Don José
1980Puccini: Manon Lescaut as Chevalier des Grieux
1980The Big Show as Self
1980Verstehen Sie Spaß? as Self
1979Otello - The Met
1979Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera as Rodolfo
1978The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
1978Carmen as Don José
1978Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci as Turiddu / Canio
1978Il Trovatore - Verdi as Manrico
1977Rigoletto as The Duke of Mantua
1977Auf los geht's los as Self
1976Verdi: Otello as Otello
1976Tosca as Mario Cavaradossi
1976Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci as Turiddu / Canio
1975Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera as Gustavo III
1974Madama Butterfly as Pinkerton
1972Schöne Stimmen as Self
1972Le Grand Échiquier as Self
1972Le Grand Échiquier as Self - Main Guest
1972Le Grand Échiquier as Self (archive footage)
1971Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre as Self
1971Great Performances as Juanillo
1971Great Performances as Self
1971Great Performances as Parsifal
1971Great Performances as Francisco Goya
1971Great Performances as Radamès
1970Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein as Self
1970Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony as Self / Tenor
1969Das Sonntagskonzert as Self
1967Omnibus as Self
1964Einer wird gewinnen as Self
1963Das aktuelle Sportstudio as self
1963Viña del Mar International Song Festival as Self - Musical Guest
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1953The Oscars as Self
1948Bambi as Self
—Penella - El Gato Montés
—Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano
—Wagner Lohengrin as Lohengrin