Plácido Domingo has received the Premio Cappuccilli. The singer received the award following a performance of “I Due Foscari” at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The daughter of Piero Cappuccili, Patrizia Cappuccilli, presented Domingo with the award. The organization noted, “Congratulations to Maestro Plácido Domingo on receiving the...
The Universal Music Fest has announced that Plácido Domingo and Sonya Yoncheva will perform at the Teatro Real. The festival announced the surprise concert via social media noting that the concert will take place on July 17, 2022. The concert will mark the return of Domingo at the Teatro...
The Bolshoi has cancelled a gala the Spanish singer was due to give on March 8. No reason has been given. Russia has been a haven for Domingo since the US and most of Europe shut down his engagements over misconduct allegations. It is not clear whether he cancelled the...
Plácido Domingo has postponed his upcoming Mexico concerts due to COVID-19. The Arena Ciudad de Mexico noted that due to the rapid spread of the virus, the 81-year-old singer would not be able to travel over to Mexico. However, Domingo did announce new dates for the concerts. The Ciudad...
Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo has broken his silence regarding allegations that he sexually harassed multiple women. The accusations against Domingo began to surface in August of 2019, as part of a wider reckoning that was brought about by the #MeToo movement. As time wore on, more and more women came forward to accuse Domingo of inappropriate behavior.
‘I never harrassed anyone,’ the singer has said in a interview with El Mundo, reported by Reuters. ‘The main mistake I made was to remain silent for too much time. I don’t like controversy. For that reason I stood aside and kept my counsel while watching how, in an instant, years of work and effort were erased.’
MADRID, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Spanish opera star Placido Domingo addressed in a newspaper interview on Friday accusations about sexual harassment that emerged two years ago, telling newspaper El Mundo that he had done nothing wrong and regretted not speaking out sooner. A 2020 investigation by the American Guild of...
Queen Sofia, 83, turned out at Domingo’s weekend recital at Madrid’s National Auditorium of Music in defiance of political measures to isolate the opera singer, who has been accused of sexual misconduct. The concert was in aid of the charity Caritas, of which the Queen is patron. She...
Plácido Domingo is set to receive the Giovanni Verga award in 2022. The singer will receive the prize as a career tribute, which will also coincide with the 40th anniversary of Franco Zeffirelli’s “Cavalleria rusticana;” Domingo had starred in that production. The 2022 prize will also...
The singer has posted mourning notices for two celebrities in his life, the Spanish tennis player Manuel Santana and the Mexican mariachi singer Vicente Fernandez, both of whom died this weekend. Of Fernandez he writes:. I join the pain of the great and sad loss of Don Vicente, legend and...
Plácido Domingo is set to return to Mexico in 2022 to offer concerts in February. The famed singer will sing at a concert on Feb. 1 in the Arena Monterrey and on Feb. 4 at the Arena Ciudad de México. He will be accompanied by the Orquesta Filarmónica del Desierto.
Leo Nucci and Plácido Domingo will be honored with the Bellini d’Oro awards. The award will be given by the Società Catanese Amici della Musica in Taormina, Italy following a performance of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at the Teatro Greco Antico. The two famed singers are currently collaborating on the work with Nucci singing the title role and Domingo conducting.
Spanish opera star Placido Domingo was honoured with an award at Madrid's Teatro Real on Thursday, a day after receiving a standing ovation for his first performance in his home country since a union said he had routinely harassed women. Spain last year cancelled planned performances by Domingo at publicly...
Riccardo Muti and Placido Domingo will headline the 2021 Verona Arena Opera Festival, essentially last year’s cancelled season revived as a sign of “great optimism and utmost seriousness”, the festival’s general director said. After an abbreviated 2020 season of concerts, operas will be fully staged with a full cast and...