From the article: "Canada's next great tenor is cooking French" published on Mat 29 2006  by Paula Citron:

(...) Opera companies around the world should kidnap conductor Tommaso Placidi. Italian-born and Swiss-based, Placidi makes Gounod's 1865 overly wrought music sound like the greatest opera ever written, achingly beautiful and intensely dramatic. The Spoleto orchestra is made up of young musicians culled from the best conservatories in the United States and the wannabe professionals play their hearts out for Placidi. It is the best-sounding orchestra I have heard in all my Spoleto years. Placidi reaches into Gounod and literally pulls out the heart strings (...).

Canada's next great tenor is cooking French
PAULA CITRON 

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Activities
Tommaso Placidi - 8th Concert, Live 21 Juni 2012
8th Concert, Live 21 Juni 2012
CONCERTINO IN CASINO 8th Concert, Live 21 Juni 2012, TOMMASO PLACIDI, Cond. with CARLO GRANTE, Piano From ...
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Concerto al Quirinale Dicembre 2012
Tommaso Placidi Concerto di Natale al Palazzo del Quirinale 09/12/2012
Tommaso Placidi - dirige la Wiener Kammer Orchester al Palazzo del Quirinale 09/12/2012 per il concerto di Natale. 09/...
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Source: Toronto Globe & Mail

(...) Opera companies around the world should kidnap conductor Tommaso Placidi. Italian-born and Swiss-based, Placidi makes Gounod's 1865 overly wrought music sound like the greatest opera ever written, achingly beautiful and intensely dramatic. The Spoleto orchestra is made up of young musicians culled from the best conservatories in the United States and the wannabe professionals play their hearts out for Placidi. It is the best-sounding orchestra I have heard in all my Spoleto years. Placidi reaches into Gounod and literally pulls out the heart strings (...) - PAULA CITRON

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Arcadia TV Bericht
Tommaso Placidi in Stara Zagora, conducting G. Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Stara-Zagora State Opera, Bulgaria.  An interview by austrian composer Prof. Roland Baumgartner and international Manager of Culture Dr. Adrian E. Hollaender.  State Opera Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.  Date of the interview: 18th November, 2017. Lucia:...
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