Music: Domingo & Co.

BIG-NAME musicians make big-time recordings, and they’ve been churning them out lately. We’ll examine a few of them, starting with the biggest one of them all: Plácido Domingo’s Tristan und Isolde.

But he’s just the tenor, isn’t he? Why is it Domingo’s? Because when he is involved in something, it’s his, period. I should also note that this recording is billed as kind of the last hurrah-not so much of Domingo as of opera recordings made in studios.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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BIG-NAME musicians make big-time recordings, and they’ve been churning them out lately. We’ll examine a few of them, starting with the biggest one of them all: Plácido Domingo’s Tristan und Isolde.

But he’s just the tenor, isn’t he? Why is it Domingo’s? Because when he is involved in something, it’s his, period. I should also note that this recording is billed as kind of the last hurrah-not so much of Domingo as of opera recordings made in studios.