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The Governing Council of the Junta de Extremadura has today expressed its "rejection" of the performance of Plácido Domingo at the Roman Theater of Mérida

scheduled for next September 25

within the programming of the music festival 'Stone & Music', which organizes a private company but that receives public aid, both from the Junta de Extremadura itself (82,644 euros plus VAT) and from the Mérida City Council (about 200,000 euros in the last edition).

Gathered this morning in an extraordinary way to take measures against the pandemic, the regional government of

Guillermo Fernández Vara

has also used the meeting to make the decision that the Fundación Orquesta de Extremadura, of public ownership, does not accompany the tenor as planned during its performance, just as the organization itself had announced yesterday.

This stellar concert served to close the program,

which takes place from the end of August and during the month of September, once the works of the Classical Theater Festival have finished.

Likewise, the Junta de Extremadura has decided that "from this moment on, the programming of any concert, festival or event that is sponsored by the regional Administration must be approved prior to the granting of said sponsorship", according to a statement issued by the regional administration.

The Extremadura government today makes this decision after the regional spokesperson for United We Can,

Irene de Miguel,

has been especially critical of the hiring of the Madrid tenor

in the last hours

. "I find it embarrassing and regrettable that the Junta finances with public money the 'Stone & Music' festival, which decides to close with a person denounced by numerous women as a sexual harasser. Is this the feminist commitment of the PSOE of Extremadura? ", the

purple

spokeswoman asked

on her Twitter account.

Throughout yesterday, the Board did not make any official statement on the case, referring in any case to the private nature of the organizers, like the municipality of Mérida.

Today he changed his position.

Minitour in Spain

The 'Stone & Music' organization had announced this Friday that the tenor was going to close in Mérida "a very exciting summer full of performances that includes a minitour through Spain that began in Madrid, where he received an ovation last June, and will continue in Marbella next month of August, after having performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Münich, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the XXIX White Nights Music Festival of Saint Petersburg, and the Ljubljana Festival (Slovenia). Verona Arena and the Taormina Festival, world exponents of opera, music and culture ".

Plácido Domingo, in principle, will step on the Mérida arena again after 30 years of his last performance in the Mérida colossus. Specifically, it was

in July 1991

, together with Rostropovich and the orchestra of the Leningrad Kirov Theater, within the framework of the Classical Theater Festival.

The direction of this festival at the moment has not made any official statement on the position taken today by the Junta de Extremadura. Sources close to the organization have indicated to this newspaper that

"Plácido Domingo has never been investigated or tried by any court

or other institutional investigative body for any charge and has not been denounced for any crime, therefore beyond the media trial, he has not been tried or convicted by any civil or criminal court in any country in the world "so his hiring was perfectly legitimate.

The 'Stone & Music' festival began its programming six years ago and every summer the main Spanish artists of very diverse genres have paraded (Les Luthiers, Ainhoa ​​Arteta, Pablo López, Alejandro Sanz, Pablo Alborán, Manuel Carrasco, Raphael, Gloria Gaynor, Vanesa Martín ) and some world-famous stars (for the pandemic it was suspended last year, for example, the performance of Sting).

This year in an increasingly booming contest,

performances such

as those by Raphael, Estopa, the musical Good Save The Queen, Amaral, Vetusta Morla, Pablo Alborán, Camilo, José Luis Perales, Bocelli and Roger Hodgson

are

scheduled

.

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