Network to present special concert event in full 1080i HD and 5.1 surround
sound
DALLAS, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Broad General Director Placido Domingo
will take the LA Opera into homes throughout the United States as HDNet
presents The Placido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala Concert on Sunday, June
1 at 8:00pm (eastern daylight time) with an encore presentation at 11:00pm
ET to accommodate West Coast prime time. The concert celebrates the
fortieth anniversary of the superstar tenor's first professional
appearances in Los Angeles and features arias and duets sung by Mr. Domingo
and the internationally acclaimed soprano Patricia Racette. The concert is
led by LA Opera Music Director James Conlon, conducting the LA Opera
Orchestra.
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"Opera is an art form for everyone, and HDNet is helping us to capture
this experience for music lovers throughout the United States," said Mr.
Domingo. "Long before television existed, opera was the popular form of
entertainment bringing theatre to the masses, so it's exciting and ironic
that we now can use television to bring opera music back to the public."
"This is an exciting new development for LA Opera and an important
continuation of our commitment to bringing opera to all audiences," said LA
Opera's Chairman and CEO, Marc I. Stern. "The special HDNet presentation,
combined with this season's Great Performances telecast of our production
of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, our recent DVD releases of both
Mahagonny and our production of La Traviata, as well as the coming second
season of our 'LA Opera on Air' broadcasts locally on KUSC and nationally
and internationally on WFMT and XM Satellite Radio, truly enable the
Company to reach out to a large and enthusiastic audience around the
world."
"The Placido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala is a perfect addition to the
outstanding programming that HDNet has to offer," added Mark Cuban,
President and Co-Founder of HDNet. "Plus, our presentation of this concert
in full 1080i high definition and 5.1 surround sound will let our viewers
feel as if they are actually in the audience instead of in their own
homes."
**For advance review copies of Placido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala
Concert please contact: Colette Carey at ccarey@hd.net or 303-542-5576
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About the LA Opera
Currently celebrating its 22nd season, Los Angeles Opera has become,
under the leadership of Placido Domingo, the nation's fourth largest opera
company and a renowned producer of works from the classical and
contemporary repertoires. The coming 2008/09 season will be one of the most
ambitious and exciting seasons in LA Opera history, with seven new
productions, the U.S. premiere of Howard Shore's The Fly, the return of
several of the Company's landmark productions and the history-making launch
of a new production of Wagner's epic Ring cycle, a first for Los Angeles.
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CONTACT:
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