On the same evening, Placido Domingo will present winners of his Operalia competition and musicians involved in his development programme at the Washington Opera.

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And as General Director of Los Angeles Opera and Washington National Opera, he is a major force as an opera administrator.

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Placido Domingo's recently vacated post as artistic advisor to the Washington National Opera (WNO) will be filled by the opera director Francesca Zambello.

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Located in the hunt country of Virginia, about an hour from Washington, the 61-acre property, named "Fidelio" after Beethoven's opera, has a 12, 000-square-foot neoclassical villa with six bedrooms, five baths and two half-baths.

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