The opera star Plácido Domingo was placed under investigation on Tuesday by the Los Angeles Opera, which he helped found and has led since 2003, after The Associated Press reported that multiple women had accused himThe allegations shook the opera world — where Mr. Domingo remains, at 78, an enormous force. The Philadelphia Orchestra withdrew its invitation for Mr. Domingo to sing at its opening night gala next month, and the San Francisco Opera canceled a concert with him in October.
Mr. Domingo occupies a unique position in the opera world. After shooting to fame as a star tenor — then reaching a far broader global audience as one of the Three Tenors, alongside Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras — he also became a conductor; founded the prestigious young artist competition Operalia; and began adding managerial positions, becoming the general director of Washington National Opera and then the Los Angeles Opera, a position he still holds.
“I was totally intimidated and felt like saying no to him would be saying no to God,” she was quoted as saying. “How do you say no to God?” When Ms. Wulf left the stage during one rehearsal, she said, Mr. Domingo was waiting for her in the wings. He came up to her, she recalled, and said, “Patricia, do you have to go home tonight?”
At the Salzburg Festival in Austria, where Mr. Domingo is scheduled to sing in concert performances of Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” this month, Helga Rabl-Stadler, the festival’s president, said that he would perform as planned. The Met, which fired its former music director, James Levine, in 2018 amid allegations of sexual misconduct — and which just last weekhe had filed against the company — said in a statement that it takes “accusations of sexual harassment and abuse of power with extreme seriousness.” The statement noted that Mr. Domingo, as a guest artist, had never been in a position to influence casting decisions there.
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