Placido Domingo last night (Tuesday) presented a special concert in the city where he got his start. I received tickets as a birthday present. The tenor recalled how in 1959 he was a chorus boy in the production of Mi Bella Dama (My Fair Lady) at Bellas Artes (the Palace of Fine Arts). That is where I first heard him, in the company of the woman who became my wife. As an understudy, our hero on occasion sang “The Street Where You Live.” His director suggested that he try out for the local opera company. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting from Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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