Placido's One-Hour Nose ; Star Tenor Transformed Into Cyrano de Bergerac

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THIS is Spanish tenor Placido Domingo's painstaking transformation into Cyrano de Bergerac. With the opera singer lacking his character's huge proboscis, it takes an hour in the makeup chair each night.

Domingo is playing the noble swordsman poet in Franco Alfano's epic at the Royal Opera House.

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Placido's One-Hour Nose ; Star Tenor Transformed Into Cyrano de Bergerac

Claudia Stolze , head of wigs and makeup at the opera house, has a stock of dozens of noses to gl...

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