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.png) Marta Domingo inBarcelona on 3 May 2015 | |
| Born | Marta Ornelas 1935 (age 89–90) Veracruz, Mexico |
| Education | National Conservatory of Music |
| Occupation(s) | Stage director,soprano,designer |
| Years active | 1954–present |
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| Children | 2, includingPlácido Domingo Jr. |
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Marta Domingo (née Ornelas; born 1935) is a Mexican opera soprano, stage director and designer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she performed as a lyric soprano in Mexico and Israel. Since the 1990s, she has directed operas in Europe and North America. She is married to Spanish tenorPlácido Domingo, who has credited her with helping to guide his career.
Marta Ornelas was born inVeracruz, Mexico.[1] She studied at theNational Conservatory of Music inMexico City.[2]
She started her career as an opera soprano forOpera Belles Artes in Mexico City.[1][2][3] She then joined theIsrael National Opera inIsrael, where she was a lead soprano for two and a half years.[2][3] During that period, she had leading roles inCosì fan tutte,The Barber of Seville,Die Fledermaus,Carmen,Faust,Eugene Onegin,Don Giovanni,The Marriage of Figaro,La bohème, andPagliacci.[2]
After she retired as soprano to raise her children, she returned to opera as a director and designer.[1] Beginning in 1991, she directedSamson et Dalila for the Teatro de la Ópera inPuerto Rico.[1][2][3] The following year, in 1992, she directedTosca atLa Maestranza Theater inSeville, Spain.[1][2][3]Rigoletto was her next project for theLos Angeles Opera inLos Angeles, California in 1993.[2][3] She returned to Puerto Rico in 1994, where she directedThe Barber of Seville.[1][2]La Rondine, directed for theOper der Stadt Bonn inBonn followed in 1995[1][2] It was also presented byThe Washington Opera in Washington, D.C. in the 1997-1998 season, and shown on thePBS television channel.[2] Marta Domingo directedLa Traviata in 1988 at theOpéra Royal de Wallonie in Belgium, and it was also given at the Los Angeles Opera in the 1998-1999 season. That same season, she also directedSly, an opera byErmanno Wolf-Ferrari, for The Washington Opera,[1][2] a production which was also presented by theMetropolitan Opera in New York City four years later, in 2002.[2]
In 2010, she was stage director ofThe Tales of Hoffmann at theMariinsky Theatre inSaint Petersburg, Russia.[1][2] She later directed it for The Washington Opera.[2]
As director and designer ofLa Traviata for the Los Angeles Opera in 2014, the opera was seen at theDorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.[4] The production incorporated the themes of the 1920s American flapper era, Chrysler sedan, andart deco style.[5]
She is married toPlácido Domingo, an opera tenor whom she met in Mexico.[3][6][7] They have two sons, including,Plácido Domingo Jr., who is a singer.[3]
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