The unsinkable Placido Domingo, who'll debut as Boccanegra on Friday night at la Scala, gave an interview to Corriere della Sera where he drops two big bombs -- he actually feared he'd have to quit singing -- "For a few interminable moments I was anguished and feared that I could not sing anymore" -- because of the malignant polyp that was removed from his colon last month in New York; and in September he'll appear -- "I hope to make it, it depends on my energy levels and on the way the audience will judge my Boccanegra" -- as Rigoletto, in Mantua, to be filmed by RAI television and conducted by Zubin Mehta.
Not just unsinkable, Placidone's a full-blown baritone, too, now -- watch out Leo Nucci!!!