Plácido DomingoVerdi

Not a tenor album. Here Domingo sings the baritone roles, a startling late-career turn at age seventy-two, his voice darker and weightier than the one you know. He digs into arias from Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, La Traviata, and Don Carlo, and critics heard him turn inward, finding a sense of real loneliness in the lower register. The Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album followed. Immaculately sung despite the whole vocal reinvention. A familiar giant heard fresh.