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The tenor Plácido Domingo and the Italian baritone Leo Nucci will receive the Bellini d'Oro award

this Wednesday, August 11 at the Teatro Greco Antico in Taormina, at the end of the

Rigoletto performance

, as reported by the communication team of the Spanish artist.

The Bellini d'Oro, instituted in 1968 by the

Società Catanese Amici della Musica

,

includes on its honor roll, among others, Riccardo Muti and Vittorio Gui, Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland

, Renata Scotto, Nicolai Gedda, Giulietta Simionato, Franco Corelli, Cecilia Bartoli, Lucia Aliberti, and the musicologists Friedrich Lippmann, Maria Rosaria Adamo or Domenico De Meo. This year the Bellini music award will go to journalist Caterina Andò, for her studies on Bellini.

"I am honored to receive the Bellini d'oro, an award that has such a prestigious history and that over the years has been awarded to exceptional artists," said Plácido Domingo.

For the Spanish tenor,

Vicenzo Bellini left masterpieces of inestimable sensitivity and paved the way for all the great composers

, especially Verdi.

"I am really enjoying these days in Taormina;

now I understand why Goethe had called it 'the greatest masterpiece of art and nature'

. We are working on this new production of Rigoletto at the Teatro Greco Antico in Taormina amidst the enthusiasm of the choir , the orchestra, the cast, the technicians ... ", he stressed.

Likewise, Plácido Domingo has been happy to be with Leo Nucci after so many years and has stressed that the idea of ​​this

Rigoletto

, of which "

Nucci is the engine when singing and directing, is to stage the opera as conceived by Verdi

and promote beauty, that much needed Renaissance. "

"And what better setting than this ancient stone masterpiece, which opens with views of the sea and Mount Etna.

It is a dream and I hope that the public can immerse themselves in this spectacle composed of music, art and nature

", concluded the Spanish tenor.

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