Domingo Dreams of Playing Composer

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Spanish Classical News) Spanish tenor Placido Domingo says he dreams of starring in a film about Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini .

Domingo sees the film as focusing on Puccini's adult life, when the composer wrote his most celebrated operas including "La Boheme," " Madame Butterfly" and "Turandot," which was unfinished when he died in 1924.

"It would take a lot of time," Domingo told a news conference Monday in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo . "That is why I think about whether to do it or not."

Domingo said he has a heavy schedule this year, including a June 27 concert of The Three Tenors with Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti before the World Cup event in Yokohama, Japan.

Domingo was in Santo Domingo for a performance at the National Theater.