FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2014, file photo, Placido Domingo speaks at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, the LA Opera said it will hire outside counsel to investigate allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior by the opera legend. Domingo has denied the accusations, but noted: "Still, it is painful to hear that I may have upset anyone or made them feel uncomfortable.
In Europe, there were no immediate cancellations of the 78-year-old Domingo’s performances and even some words of support for the star. Opera world officials noted that no charges had been brought against Domingo and no formal judicial investigations were underway that might provide legal underpinning to cancel any contractual obligations.
“Some attitudes, seen in hindsight, risk being misunderstood,” cultural journalist Leonetta Bentivoglio wrote Wednesday in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. “That he was a Don Juan was something everyone knew, and in the promiscuous theater world he is not alone. We must add that his charm has always attracted a crowd of women, and often it was he who had to defend himself.”
Salzburg Festival president Helga Rabl-Stadler, who said she has known Domingo for 25 years and has long appreciated both his “artistic competence” and “appreciative treatment of all festival employees,” said “it would be factually wrong and morally irresponsible to make irreversible judgments at this point.”
Domingo did not respond to detailed questions from the AP about specific incidents, but issued a statement calling the allegations “deeply troubling, and as presented, inaccurate.” Three Spanish sopranos have come to his defense, saying that they have never experienced the sort of behavior described in the AP story, which included accusations that he put his hand down one woman’s skirt and forced wet kisses on three others. All of the allegations were related to incidents in the United States, spanning two decades beginning in the late 1980s.
Dreizehn knows how you feel man, I've been at war with a leavened loaf for about 6 years now and it's one character assassination after the next the ex Attorney General Pam Bondi is actually doing more harm than good to this day and she's not even in office anymore.
Soprano Sonya Yoncheva on Placido Domingo 'A real gentleman, philanthropist, artist, charming and peaceful human being, who is devoted to the new generation of singers in the most humble and respectful way. You can rarely find today a person who respects more his colleagues.
New yorkers aren't that idiot as well
It seems Europeans are less prone to believe this type of fake news than certain Americans.
Sounds like a character assassination, guys probably innocent.
Nessun dorma
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Of course, wait and see is the correct answer...
How much money are those accusers asking?(remember it's got nothing to do with money) it's the principle?
As a POC and “cultural leader”, he could get away with mass murder amongst his peers.
Are we just going to let women destroy our culture like this?
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