Plácido Domingo electrifies in Houston’s Wortham Theater Center return


In what could easily be the Houston arts moment of the year, opera’s living legend Placido Domingo — known as the “King of Opera” — led a sellout Wortham Theater Center crowd of nearly 2,500 in a rousing singalong of “Besame Mucho.” Such was the night of sweeping romance, gripping drama, and chuckle-inducing comedy, as Domingo starred in Houston Grand Opera’s triumphant return to the Wortham in an evening appropriately titled “HGO & Placido, Coming…

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