{"id":799185,"date":"2019-09-05T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=880608"},"modified":"2019-09-05T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:11:28","slug":"more-women-come-forward-accusing-placido-domingo-of-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/more-women-come-forward-accusing-placido-domingo-of-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"More Women Come Forward Accusing Placido Domingo of Sexual Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eleven more women have come forward accusing renowned Spanish opera<\/a> singer and conductor Placido Domingo of sexual harassment<\/a>, The Associated Press<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Following the outlet\u2019s original report<\/a> in August \u2013 in which nine women accused Domingo of forced kisses and verbal harassment \u2013 the AP<\/em> stated that the additional women spoke of \u201cunwanted touching, persistent requests for private get-togethers, late-night phone calls and sudden attempts to kiss them on the lips.\u201d<\/p>\n

One woman, Angela Turner Wilson, said the incident occurred during the Washington Opera\u2019s 1999-2000 season, when she received her big break at 28 years old as the second female lead in Jules Massenet\u2019s \u201cLe Cid.\u201d \u201cI knew this was the start of big things for me,\u201d said Wilson, now a college vocal professor in Dallas. While she and Domingo were getting their makeup done before the show one night, he stood behind her chair and groped her breast. \u201cWhat woman would ever want him to grab their breast? And it hurt,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cThen I had to go on stage and act like I was in love with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy Seltzer, a spokesperson for Domingo, released a statement to CNN<\/a> disputing the allegations. \u201cThe ongoing campaign by the AP<\/em> to denigrate Pl\u00e1cido Domingo is not only inaccurate but unethical,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThese new claims are riddled with inconsistencies and, as with the first story, in many ways, simply incorrect. Due to an ongoing investigation, we will not comment on specifics, but we strongly dispute the misleading picture that the AP<\/em> is attempting to paint of Mr. Domingo.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Opera, where Domingo has served as general director since 2003, stated after the initial allegations that they would investigate the situation. Since then, the opera house has hired outside counsel. Melinda McLain, who served at the production coordinator at the LA Opera House in 1986, claimed she tried to put Domingo in his own dressing room separate from females, even when he requested otherwise. McLain also told the AP<\/em> she tried to invite Marta \u2013 Domingo\u2019s wife of 62 years \u2013 to company parties. \u201cIf Marta was around, he behaves,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Domingo is set to perform in productions of Macbeth<\/em> and Madama Butterfly<\/em> at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City this month, but the opera house said it is waiting on the results of the investigation in Los Angeles to take any action.<\/p>\n

A representative for Domingo did not immediately return Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Eleven more women have come forward accusing renowned Spanish opera singer and conductor Placido Domingo of sexual harassment, The Associated Press reports. Following the outlet\u2019s original report in August \u2013 in which nine women accused Domingo of forced kisses and verbal harassment \u2013 the AP stated that the additional women spoke of \u201cunwanted touching, persistent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 10:47:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}