with Plàcido Domingo

Since 2000 John Pascoe has worked on many occasions alongside the great tenor, conductor and administrator Plàcido Domingo. Their association began when he directed Handel’s Giulio Cesare for the Washington National Opera, using his award-winning sets from the Metropolitan Opera NY production (originally created by Pascoe for the English National Opera*).

Following the success of Cesare, he was commissioned by Domingo to create two separate productions in Washington of Don Giovanni, a new Manon Lescaut, the world premiere of Democracy: An American Comedy, and finally Lucrezia Borgia featuring Renée Fleming and Vittorio Grigolo. In Domingo Direttore D’Orchestra by Francesca Zardini (Allemandi 2010), Domingo named him as being among his top ten stage directors and described him as ‘an excellent collaborator’.

*Available on DVD