"I have never abused anyone, I will repeat it as long as I live," said the opera superstar, in an exclusive interview published Thursday by the Italian daily La Repubblica . Placido Domingo was accused in 2019 in the American press of having sexually harassed twenty women in the United States. This forced him to give up his post as director of the Los Angeles Opera and to cancel all his performances across the Atlantic, de facto ending his career in North America.
"I would fight to wash my name"
" I changed. I'm not scared anymore. When I learned that I had the Covid, I promised myself that if I made it out alive, I would fight to clear my name, ”Placido Domingo, 79, announced in March from his refuge in Acapulco (Mexico) to have tested positive for the new coronavirus, then had been hospitalized. Now recovered, the famous Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo has "found his voice", both to deny again the accusations against him and to repeat his recitals.
"Our lives have changed"
“Finding my voice was a miracle (…) Two or three months ago, I wasn't sure I could sing again,” he explains to La Repubblica. "Now is the time to get back to normal." But “our lives have changed. And as you know, it is even more difficult for me because of the accusations that have been brought against me ”in the media.
These accusations "destabilized myself and my family" and "hurt me more than the virus." It only remains for me to take note of the fact that for the moment I will not be able to sing in some parts of the world, like the United States and Spain, my country. And certainly not because of a choice made by the public, which constantly sends me messages of solidarity. (…) But what to do ? It's life ! ".
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