Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Placido Domingo sings at Mexico pyramid

Tenor Placido Domingo peppered his classical repertoire with a crowd-pleasing array of popular music and even donned a mariachi suit and sang along with the audience, smoothing over controversy surrounding his Saturday concert at the Mayan pyramids of Chichen Itza.

With help from Mexican crooner Armando Manzanero and Puerto Rican soprano Ana Maria Martinez, an ebullient Domingo won over the crowd with encores ranging from West Side Story's "Tonight," to the popular ballad of southern Yucatan state, "Peregrina."

Domingo and Martinez also joined forces on a thundering, majestic tribute to the Mayan ruins in "The Silver Moon of Chichen …

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