NEW YORK – Placido Domingo once said he had no intention of still singing onstage when he turned 70.
Wrong.
His birthday was Jan. 21 and now, a month later, he will reach an audience of several million Saturday in a Metropolitan Opera performance of Gluck’s “Iphigenie en Tauride.” It will be beamed in real time to 1,500 movie theaters worldwide, plus radio and streaming Internet.
“What can I do? I’m still feeling in good voice!” says Domingo, sitting and relaxing in the Met’s sunny grand entrance.
“But I’m a mess!” he joked as he cooled down and straightened his shirt after conducting a rehearsal of Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette” — squeezed on off days between performances of “Iphigenie.”
Less than a year after his successful colon cancer surgery, he’s still general director of both the Los Angeles Opera and the Washington National Opera, while recording, conducting and singing.
The thick waves of his now silver hair frame an animated face that does not hide his age.
“You have to keep the sound fresh,” he says. “I mean, most of the tenor roles, they are young!”
Domingo is a conductor as well as an artist who has a record-setting 134 career roles; the celebrated tenors Luciano Pavarotti and
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