Eight singers and one dancer have told the Associated Press they were sexually harassed by opera superstar Plácido Domingo in the 1980s, ’90s and early 2000s. The new allegations are threatening to tarnish his gilded legacy.
Over his 60-year career, Plácido Domingo — general director of Los Angeles Opera and living legend of global proportions — has been described as the Energizer bunny of opera.
In 1991, she told AP, “I finally gave in and slept with him. I ran out of excuses. It was like, ‘OK, I guess this is what I have to do.’” After one sexual encounter with him at the Biltmore Hotel downtown and another at Domingo’s L.A. apartment, she cut off physical contact and saw her career with L.A. Opera suffer, she said.Other women spoke of being stalked backstage, touched without permission, and forced to fend off chronic romantic overtures.
“Still, it is painful to hear that I may have upset anyone or made them feel uncomfortable — no matter how long ago and despite my best intentions. I believed that all of my interactions and relationships were always welcomed and consensual. People who know me or who have worked with me know that I am not someone who would intentionally harm, offend or embarrass anyone.
But all those accomplishments have quickly faded in the wake of the AP report, for which most of the sources were anonymous. Despite Domingo’s reference to “unnamed accusers,” one source in the AP article did allow her name to be used: Patricia Wulf, who sang with Domingo at what is now the Washington National Opera in Washington, D.C.
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