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Domingo Pulls Out of 2007 Bavarian State Opera Parsifals, Removes Role from Repertoire
June 14, 2006
Plácido Domingo has pulled out of the title role of the Bavarian State Opera's performances of Parsifal that had been scheduled for April and July 2007, the company announced.
A statement posted on the State Opera's website attributed the tenor's decision to leave the production "to his taking out the title role from his repertoire for the foreseeable future." Domingo previously had bowed out of Parsifal performances in both Hamburg and Berlin.
The Munich performances scheduled for April 1, 5 and 8 will now feature Austrian tenor Nikolai Schukoff in the title role.
The July 8, 2007 performance of Parsifal that had been scheduled to play as part of next summer's Munich Opera Festival will now be replaced by a gala concert in which Domingo will sing Wagner excerpts with Waltraud Meier, Rene Pape and Martin Gantner. The concert will be paced by the baton of Bavarian State Opera music director Kent Nagano.
Last December, Domingo sang the title role in Robert Wilson's production of Parsifal at Los Angeles Opera — a run of performances immediately preceding a bout of tracheitis that sidelined the famed tenor from singing engagements until the beginning of March 2006.
In addition, the April 2007 Munich dates coincided with several performances of the Washington National Opera's production of Die Walküre, for which Domingo is slated to sing the role of Siegmund. 
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