El Museo del Barrio held its annual gala on the rainy evening of May 27. The cathedral-like entrance of Cipriani’s, just across from Grand Central, signaled right away that the soiree was a far cry from the barrio, not to mention the 40-year-old museum’s earliest fund-raisers, held on its roof on the Upper East Side. Read More
Domingo Takes Two:
South of the Border Style
Plácido Domingo didn’t have much success with his eponymous midtown restaurant, which served Spanish cuisine. So six months ago he teamed up with Richard Sandoval, the chef of Maya, and re-opened as Pampano, whose Mexican menu consists primarily of seafood from the Veracruz region. It was Read More
For some time, the most elusive and prized species of opera singer has been Pavarotti redux. Plácido Domingo remains the dramatic tenor par excellence. But for all the ballyhoo that has attended the careers of such rising young tenors as Roberto Alagna and José Cura, nobody has yet come along with the combination of qualities Read More
Hearing Plácido Domingo in his Carnegie Hall recital on a recent Sunday afternoon offered a disconcerting lesson in one of the trickier things about the art of classical music performance-the challenge of self-exposure. Mr. Domingo has been the most visible-and commanding-singer of our time. But until now, we have heard him only in costume as Read More
Crossover tenors are full-grown men in good clothes who often behave like naughty students. They do the things conventional instructors forbid high-minded tenors to do, like making decisions regarding repertoire and presentation that place them off the radar of stern commentators. Yet, by operating in the world of the middlebrow, the crossover tenors march on, Read More
