Domingo dedicates 'Il Postino' shows to composer

The Miami Herald Tuesday 14th June, 2011

PARIS -- Celebrated tenor Placido Domingo on Tuesday dedicated upcoming Paris performances of "Il Postino" to the opera's late composer, Daniel Catan.The Mexican composer died suddenly last April at age 62, and was found dead in bed in Austin, Texas. Domingo said with Catan's passing, the world has lost "an extraordinary man of the theater and I have lost a great friend."Catan's death has turned rehearsals for "Il Postino" - which opens at Paris' Theatre du Chatelet on June 20 with a brief four performance run - into an emotional roller coaster. "Every 15 minutes, someone starts crying because something reminds them of Daniel," said Domingo, who plays Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in the opera."Il Postino" opened in Los Angeles late last year and has also played in Vienna, but Domingo told...

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