On tap at Washington Opera: Domingo, 'Sophie's Choice'

Placido Domingo will sing the role of Siegmund in a new production of Richard Wagner's "Die Walkuere" in the 2006-07 season of the Washington National Opera. The company's general director also will conduct an old production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly"

The season will include the first American performance of "Sophie's Choice," adapted from the novel by William Styron. It centers on a terrible choice that a Nazi concentration camp forces on a young Polish woman, and her tragic life afterward in the United States. Both libretto and music were the work of Nicholas Maw, a British-born composer now a Washingtonian.