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| | Operalia - Placido Domingo's World Opera Contest |
 | | Operalia winners appear frequently at La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Opéra de Paris, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, and in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Madrid, Barcelona, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Geneva, Zurich, San Francisco and at other major venues all over the world. |
 | | The Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, his birthplace, hosted the 1995 competition, whereas in 1996 Bordeaux's magnificent Grand Théâtre was the site of the event. |
 | | 1999 brought Operalia to the Caribbean - specifically, the Centro de Bellas Artes, Luis A. Ferré in San Juan, Puerto Rico - and the following year the competition moved to the Royce Hall, UCLA in Los Angeles, one of the two American cities whose opera companies have made Domingo their Artistic Director. |
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