Opera star Placido Domingo faces new accusations of misconduct, Leisure Information

MADRIDN – Opera star Placido Domingo confronted new accusations of sexual harassment from a fellow Spanish singer in a tv programme broadcast on Sunday (Jan 15), three years after such claims prompted an apology and curtailed his profession.

In a 2020 investigation, greater than three dozen singers, dancers, musicians, voice lecturers and backstage employees mentioned that they had witnessed or skilled inappropriate behaviour by Domingo, 83, over three a long time. Domingo has not admitted any wrongdoing.

The most recent accusation got here from an unidentified singer in Spain’s La Sexta tv channel. Showing as a darkish determine, she mentioned Domingo allegedly requested to the touch her at a theatre in Spain firstly of the twenty first century. On one other event, he tried to kiss her, she mentioned.

“One of many first issues they let you know is do not go up within the carry alone with Placido Domingo,” the lady advised La Sexta tv channel.

She associated how Domingo allegedly requested to the touch her after a rehearsal.

“The primary time that I felt unease was after we have been rehearsing. He (Placido) advised me in entrance of everybody: ‘Hear, can I put my hand in one among these beautiful pockets of yours.’ I used to be carrying trousers with an embroidered again pocket,” she mentioned.

“I had a foul abdomen as a result of I assumed what can I say to (Domingo) with the intention to keep it up usually. If I inform him no, there will likely be penalties and if I say sure, I do not even need to give it some thought.”

The singer mentioned she didn’t report Domingo to her bosses or the authorities.

“He’s Domingo. He’s untouchable. He shouldn’t be however I’m within the shadows,” she added.

Representatives of Domingo didn’t reply to a request for remark.

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The 2020 investigation by the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) concluded that Domingo had behaved inappropriately.

Domingo mentioned in a press release on the time he revered the ladies’s selections to talk out and that he was “actually sorry for the harm I prompted them.”

The findings prompted Spain to cancel deliberate performances by the tenor-turned baritone at publicly funded theatres. US establishments together with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and San Francisco Opera additionally scrapped deliberate engagements.

Domingo resigned as common director of the Los Angeles Opera, whose personal enquiry discovered 10 allegations about him to be “credible.”

No legal case was dropped at court docket over any of the claims.

In an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo in January 2022, Domingo denied harassing anybody and mentioned he felt he had been convicted within the court docket of public opinion as a result of he didn’t converse out.

AGMA’s investigation was partial, he mentioned, and contained few concrete details.

Domingo returned to Spain to carry out in a charity live performance in June after an absence of virtually a 12 months and a half, and has carried out in different international locations.