Opera singer Domingo resigned as director of opera company on suspicion of sexual harassment October 3, 11:29
Global opera singer Placido Domingo has resigned as the general director of the opera company, saying that he was unable to tackle with all his power after being reported to have had sexual harassment with several women.
Nine female singers have complained about this problem from a 78-year-old opera singer Placido Domingo from Spain, who is said to be one of “the world's three largest tenors”, who have suffered sexual harassment since the late 1980s. It has been
About this, Mr. Domingo announced a statement on the 2nd, announced that he will stop appearing in the opera company “Los Angeles Opera”, who will serve as general director, and will resign as general director.
The statement says, “As a result of my criticism of me, I was unable to work on the work of the opera company. I continued my efforts to remove the stigma, but I decided that resignation would be for the opera company.”
Domingo has also stopped appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, one of the world's leading theater companies.
The “#MeToo” movement accusing sexual harassment and sexual violence spread throughout the world, including the United States, and this time opera masters were forced to resign.