LEBANON: OPERA TENOR PLACIDO DOMINGO AND SOPRANO ANA MARIA MARTINEZ PERFORM AT LEBANON BEITEDINE FESTIVAL

Record ID: 190433

  • Title: LEBANON: OPERA TENOR PLACIDO DOMINGO AND SOPRANO ANA MARIA MARTINEZ PERFORM AT LEBANON BEITEDINE FESTIVAL
  • Date: 5th August 1999
  • Summary: BEITEDINE, LEBANON (AUGUST 4, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. SLV CROWD AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE HISTORICAL BEITEDINE PALACE WHERE CONCERT TOOK PLACE 0.05 2. LV SEATED AUDIENCE 0.11 3. LV DOMINGO, MARTINEZ AND THE BUDAPEST ORCHESTRA ON STAGE 0.18 4. SV DUET DOMINGO AND MARTINEZ PERFORM VERDI'S OTELLO 0.47 5. SLV MUSICIANS 0.57 6. SV/LV DOMINGO AND MARTINEZ SING THE LAST PASSAGE OF OTELLO THEN CHEERED BY AUDIENCE (4 SHOTS) 1.18 7. MCU (English) MARINA DALLAH SAYING "It was wonderful I'm so glad that Lebanon hosts this and I hope they will always host this every year." 1.23 8. MCU (English) GHAZI HARB SAYING "Hopefully we will have more shows we are hoping for the Three Tenors to come to Lebanon." 1.30 9. MCU (English) ZALFA GRAYEB SAYING "Well it's really a pleasure to be able to receive somebody like Placido Domingo in Lebanon. It was a great success and he was very generous in his songs." 1.42 10. SV DOMINGO STANDING WITH FRIENDS AFTER CONCERT 1.45 11. MCU (English) PLACIDO DOMINGO, COMMENTING ON AUDIENCE REACTION: "Well you always suspect when the public will like you because of course you sing for the public, ok you also sing because you like to sing but you suspect when you sing for the public they like you. Your public is a mystery you never know how they are going to react, and even though I have been lucky in my life, you never know, it could be the first time the public does not accept you, doesn't like it. But we see it from the very beginning they (the audience) were very enthusiastic." 2.22 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: BEITEDINE, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA2VAAV7DXP7R24J711V1ZH0JR9
  • Story Text: Opera tenor Placido Domingo and soprano Ana Maria
    Martinez have performed before an audience of 5,000 at
    Lebanon's Beitedine festival.

    A sellout crowd of over 5,000 crowded into the
    courtyard of the majestic Beitedine palace in Lebanon's Chouf
    mountains on Wednesday evening (August 4), to hear tenor
    Placido Domingo and soprano Ana Maria Martinez.

    On their first appearance in the Arab world the duet took
    their audience on a musical journey through French, Italian,
    American and Spanish repertoires.

    Martinez brought a freshness to Rossini's 'Una Vace Poco
    Fa', while Domingo delved into the sombre gravitas of
    'Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame'.

    Domingo displayed an instant command of character when the
    pair became Verdi's Otello and Desdemona, part of a sizzling
    performance that brought the appreciative audience to their
    feet several times.

    The tenor rewarded his first-time, but loyal, audience by
    adding four unscheduled pieces to the concert.He said after
    the concert that he was greatly moved by the enthusiasm of his
    reception.


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