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Show eve Y E7 The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS Sunday, November8, 1998 Domingo Adds Another Role: L.A. Opera Artistic Director: before the public — he has sung a staggering 112 roles in his 40-year BY TIM PAGE WASHINGTON POST his arrangement with the Washington Opera throughthe 2003-04 season. His current Washington gettable happen here ters,’ he continued. “What I doin with the Los Angeles Opera since cerns” to Domingo when he an- from what I do in another. When. whenhesangthe title role of Ver- the Los Angeles job Still, Domingo has not signed anything like an exclusive con- sent completely different operas di's “Otello” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion downtown. In 1995 said they expressed“serious connounced his intention to take on tract with any artistic organization for years. tistic responsibility for 54 performances of eight productions in Los Angelesevery year, in addi- tion to more than 70 performancesofeight productionshe al- have to share him,” a longtime asIt is not uncommon for cele- brated musicians to take on more than oneexecutive position. The proposed extension of Do- mingo's present contract with the Washington Opera — several years before it would ordinarily Washington and Los Angeles have their own separate charac one housewill be very different ever possible, I will strive to pre —although I cannot promise that all the singers will be different, If you want great Verdi or Wagner there are only a fewsingers who can deliver the best.”” The Washington Operaandthe Los Angeles Opera are generally considered strong, ambitious and promising companies of the sec ond rank. The Los Angeles Opera has a working budget of $19 mil lion per year. while the Washing ton Opera's budget hovers around $25 million. Hach company will mount eight productions in the with its huge Latino population thanit has provedin Washington. Domingo has been associated its first performance in 1986 theyear before he came to Wash ington, he was named principal guest conductor and artistic adviser in Los Angeles Peter Hemmings. 64, has served as the general director of the Los Angeles Operasince the company's inception in 1984. It was Hemmings’ decision to resign in June 2000 that triggered Do- mingo’s appointment. The companyis searching for an administra: tive director. “In both cities, I see my job as an opportunity upgrade what was there before,” Domingosaid ready oversees in Washington. He will continue to pursue his career as a singer. He remains come up for renewal — would seemin part a good-faith arrangement between the tenor and the ington offers several more perOne of Domingo’spet projects wonderfully. I can do both things tile and sought-after tenor now “Tam more enthusiastic about — that of winning a United States 1amused to doing many things.” perhaps the world’s most versaEeeh A familiar photograph of Geronim 0, the warrior. “If you want to work with Placido,you're goingto sociate said. “That is always made abundantly clear from day one.” contract expires in 2002 Domingo, 57, will bear final ar- audience for zarzuela, a sort of Spanishoperetta — might be easierto accomplish in Los Angeles, tive as a symphonic conductor. Sources close to the Washington Opera executive committee The busiest person in the opera world is about to becomebusier. Tenor Placido Domingo, artistic director of the Washington Opera since 1996, has accepted the same position with the Los Angeles Opera for three years beginning June 2000, meaning that the legendary tenorwill try to do the two prestigious — andvastly challenging — jobs at the sametime. Domingo also said he has agreed ‘in principle’ to extend the Washington OperathanI have ever been,” Domingo said. “I want to make something unfor career. Domingoisalso increasingly ac- company. 1998-99 season, although Wash- formancesof each opera “I cannot deny to you my deep feeling that things will work out Historic Images of American Indians More than 90,000 imagesarecollected in the photo archive of the , Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, and manyofthe pictures were collected by George Gustav Heye. Heye, the son of successful German immigrants, grew upasthe Indian Wars wereending. Fascinated by the country’s native people, he gathered more than a million objects representing nearly every Americantribe. Tn 1922, Heye opened the Muse- um of the American Indian, and these collections becamethebasis of the archive for the newest Smithsonian museum. More than 200 photographs from the archive appear in the new book Spirit most famous Indian warriors, the Apache leader Geronimo. He is kneeling, watchful, holdinga rifle. Also in the book is another photo of Geronimo, standing with his wife and three small children in a farm field. The former fighter is holding a melon. The bookincludes essays by Na- tive American historians and an- thropologists, and contains pictures by several modern-day Indian photographers The book contains pictures of daily life, but photos taken without respect for sacréd sites or ceremonies are not included. (Tribal representatives are allowed to see those photosin the archives.) 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