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- April , 2008: Plácido Domingo was voted by BBC Music Magazine as the greatest tenor of all time by 16 renowned opera critics in a quest to find the world's top 20 operatic tenors.
- March 26, 2008: Plácido Domingo added the 130th role to his repertoire as "Bajazet" in Handel's Tamerlano at the Teatro Real – a record repertoire by any operatic tenor.
- October 5, 2007: Appomattox, by Philip Glass has its world premiere at San Francisco Opera.
- September 6, 2007: Luciano Pavarotti died at the of age 71 from pancreatic cancer.
- June 4, 2007: Peruvian tenor, Juan Diego Flórez received his country's highest decoration – the Gran Cruz de la Orden El Sol del Perú.