Domingo returns to stage as Cyrano

After the longest absence from the opera stage in his career, three months, superstar tenor Placido Domingo donned the big nose of his character, Cyrano de Bergerac, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

The 65-year-old tenor, who had nursed an inflamed windpipe all winter stepped onto the stage yesterday and into a challenge: a fiendish first aria, sung while duelling with a sword.