Overheard in Los Angeles By Dan HullSeptember 22, 2013February 27, 2025Uncategorized Life is short, opera is long, and Wagner is longer. —Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor, L.A. Opera general director. German tenor Johannes Sembach (1881-1944), taking a stab at the role of Pylade in Gluck’s Iphigenie auf Tauris