Three others said he forced wet kisses on their lips. One woman claimed Domingo put his hand down her skirt. He will return to Covent Garden in June 2020 in a revival of Verdi’s Don Carlo - or will he?įor this week, eight singers and a dancer claimed to have been sexually harassed by the 78-year-old tenor dating back to the 1980s, mostly during his tenures as director of the Los Angeles and Washington Operas. The Spanish-born multiple Grammy-winning tenor is described by colleagues as a man of prodigious charm and energy, the most prolific opera singer in history, who continues to attract sell-out crowds at the most prestigious opera houses around the world.
Music, maestros, please (left to right): Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano PavarottiĪCT ONE: WILL PLACIDO HAVE TO FACE THE MUSIC? Here, JANE FRYER lifts the lid on three sexually voracious stars who used their extraordinary talent, power and wealth to take advantage of their fans, colleagues and, most of all, their extremely long-suffering wives. Pavarotti was a serial philanderer, Carreras had a tortuously tangled love life, and this week sees Placido Domingo embroiled in a raft of historical sexual assault allegations made by at least nine women - all of which, it must be said, he strongly denies. Offstage, however, it seems that it was a different story. In the 1990s and early 2000s, they were the world’s most famous (and, in Pavarotti’s case, well-fed) opera singers who were adept at transporting their fans to a higher plane, a place of passion, joy or longing and of exquisite beauty expressed through words and music. Onstage, with their arms outstretched, heads thrown back and soaring, golden, voices articulating the language of love, the Three Tenors - Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo - were feted as the ‘very soul of romance’.
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