Placido Domingo's concert celebrating his 40 years of appearing in Los Angeles opera productions will be shown May 11 on 21 Landmark theater screens.
L.A. Opera's gala concert on Friday featured Domingo, soprano Patricia Racette and James Conlon conducting the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. Program included Domingo singing familiar roles such as "Gia nella notte densa" from Verdi's "Otello" in duet with Racette and "Wintersturme" from  Wagner's "Die Walkure." Program also included lighter fare, a duet on "Tonight" from "West Side Story" and "No puede ser" from Sorozabal's "La Taberna del Puerto." Quartet of encores included  the "Merry Widow Waltz."   
Program will be screened at 2 p.m. on the 11th at Landmark Theaters in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Seattle,  Houston, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, St. Louis and Baltimore.
It is the first time an L.A. Opera presentation has been beamed into movie theaters. New York's Metropolitan Opera has been showing films of its operas in theaters for a few years.  L.A. Opera productions have been filmed in hi-def for several years and  last season's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,"  and "La Traviata" have been released on DVD.
LA Opera chairman and CEO Marc Stern announced the theater deal at a dinner that followed the concert in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, noting it is "an important
continuation of our commitment to bringing opera to all audiences."
Domingo made his L.A. debut Nov. 17, 1967 in the  New York City Opera's touring production of  Alberto Ginastera's "Don Rodrigo." Active as L.A. Opera's artistic consultant and artistic director, he was named general director in 2003.

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LA Opera's production of  Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"will be aired on Thirteen/WNET's "Great Performances" on Dec. 17 and released on hi-def DVD a day later by EuroArts Music International.
Production, which received a rave in Daily Variety, features the Broadway stars Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone. John Doyle, whose London and Broadway stagings of "Sweeney Todd" and "Company" garnered considerable praise, directs. 
Additionally, Decca will be releasing a DVD of the company's September 2006 production of "La Traviata" starring Renée Fleming.