Okā¦ Iām on cloud nine right now. I went to see Placido Domingo live for the first time at the Met last night. I was so psyched! But the icing on the cake which practically made me faint was meeting him backstage after the opera. We got to cut past all of the checkpoints because we were with his wife, which was a fluke. My teacher saw her and called out her name and then suddenly, there we were with her. It was absolutely so surreal.
Then meeting him and seeing him interact with my teacher!!! I was so dumbfounded, I could barely speak. I felt like a teenage girlā¦ and I NEVER felt like that even as a teenager. Famous people werenāt that big of a deal to me. But he made me melt!!! And heās old enough to be my grandfather. Heās obviously very timeless. It was like there had to have been some sort of mistake that I got to get backstage. I didnāt belong there and here I was standing only a couple feet away from one of the greats. My mind was going a mile a minute and I kept telling myself to be calm and serene. So outside I was very calm, but inside my whole self was shaking with excitement. I will never forget this night. My husband was totally laughing when I told him the story.
One of my first exposures to him was on Sesame Street. I just found the clip. My best friend just reminded me of that when we were kids watching it. Itās a cheesy song, but his voice just makes me melt.
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