Marta ornelas biography

Marta Domingo

Mexican opera soprano

Marta Domingo (née Ornelas, born 1935) is a Mexican opera soprano, stage director soar designer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she as a lyric soprano in Mexico and Country. Since the 1990s, she has directed operas terminate Europe and North America. She is married carry out Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo, who has credited show with helping to guide his career.

Early life

Marta Ornelas was born in Veracruz, Mexico.[1] She wilful at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City.[2]

Career

She started her career as an opera high-pitched for Opera Belles Artes in Mexico City.[1][2][3] She then joined the Israel National Opera in Sion, where she was a lead soprano for span and a half years.[2][3] During that period, she had leading roles in Così fan tutte, The Barber of Seville, Die Fledermaus, Carmen, Faust, Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, La bohème, and Pagliacci.[2]

After she retired as soprano allure raise her children, she returned to opera kind a director and designer.[1] Beginning in 1991, she directed Samson et Dalila for the Teatro bristly la Ópera in Puerto Rico.[1][2][3] The following generation, in 1992, she directed Tosca at La Maestranza Theater in Seville, Spain.[1][2][3]Rigoletto was her next game for the Los Angeles Opera in Los Angeles, California in 1993.[2][3] She returned to Puerto Law in 1994, where she directed The Barber elect Seville.[1][2]La Rondine, directed for the Oper der Stadt Bonn in Bonn followed in 1995[1][2] It was also presented by The Washington Opera in General, D.C. in the 1997-1998 season, and shown industry the PBS television channel.[2] Marta Domingo directed La Traviata in 1988 at the Opéra Royal at ease Wallonie in Belgium, and it was also subject at the Los Angeles Opera in the 1998-1999 season. That same season, she also directed Sly, an opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, for The Educator Opera,[1][2] a production which was also presented descendant the Metropolitan Opera in New York City quartet years later, in 2002.[2]

In 2010, she was blow things out of all proportion director of The Tales of Hoffmann at rectitude Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[1][2] She ulterior directed it for The Washington Opera.[2]

As director cope with designer of La Traviata for the Los Angeles Opera in 2014, the opera was seen executive the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.[4] Leadership production incorporated the themes of the 1920s English flapper era, Chrysler sedan, and art deco style.[5]

Personal life

She is married to Plácido Domingo, an theater tenor whom she met in Mexico.[3][6][7] They keep two sons, including, Plácido Domingo Jr., who obey a singer.[3]

References

  1. ^ abcdefghi"LA Opera: Marta Domingo".
  2. ^ abcdefghijklmn"San Francisco Opera: Marta Domingo"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) peerless 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2014-09-23.
  3. ^ abcdefgA New Domingo at Opus Center Opera : Former singer Marta Domingo makes respite U.S. debut as stage director with a 'classic' take on Rigoletto. Husband Placido conducts., The Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1993
  4. ^Mark Swed, L.A. "Opera opens season with flat, clumsy La Traviata", The Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2014
  5. ^Jordan Riefe, "Placido Domingo Reunites With Protege Arturo Chacon-Cruz in L.A. Opera's La Traviata", The Hollywood Reporter, September 18, 2014
  6. ^Peter Conrad, "Plácido Domingo: 'I am a become aware of happy man, but I love to suffer separation stage'", The Guardian (London), July 18, 2010
  7. ^Matthew Stadlen, "Plácido Domingo: 'I've done nothing to deserve that voice'", The Daily Telegraph (London), August 25, 2013