Placido Domingo
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‘He’s so strapping and virile’: Patrick Stewart at 80, by Shatner, McKellen, Grammer and more
- Film
- July 13, 2020, 06:00
Horse rides in stockings, rehearsals in deep freezes, fights in string vests... On Patrick Stewart’s 80th birthday, friends from David Tennant to B(...)

Placido Domingo apologises after sexual harassment claims
- Music
- February 25, 2020, 14:56
Opera singer Placido Domingo has apologised to the women who accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour, saying he took full respons(...)

Placido Domingo resigns from Los Angeles Opera role
- Music
- October 2, 2019, 20:43
Placido Domingo has resigned as general director of the Los Angeles Opera and withdrew from future performances at the company following allegations o(...)

Placido Domingo drops out of Met Opera amid sexual misconduct accusations
- Music
- September 25, 2019, 07:56
Opera singer Placido Domingo on Tuesday dropped out of a performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York while disputing accusations of sexual misco(...)

Plácido Domingo fighting new wave of sexual harassment claims
- Europe
- September 6, 2019, 14:52
The Dallas Opera has become the latest organisation to cancel plans to work with Spanish tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo, who is facing a new barr(...)

Plácido Domingo accused of sexual harassment over three decades
- Europe
- August 13, 2019, 19:35
World-renowned opera star Plácido Domingo has denied accusations that he tried to pressure women into sexual relationships by offering them jobs and s(...)

Pavarotti documentary: Needless to say, Bono turns up
- Film
- July 15, 2019, 05:00
Eight Days a Week, Ron Howard’s recent documentary on the Beatles, somehow found an under-explored angle on that much eulogised band: their power as l(...)

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96
- Culture
- June 15, 2019, 16:49
Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the world’s greatest opera singers and brought Shakespeare to the cinema-going masses, has died. He was 96. In a stat(...)

Venezuelan voice on his way to the Royal Irish Academy
- Music
- August 28, 2018, 00:20
In early May, Luis Magallanes went to a local market in Barcelona to buy supplies. He had only been in the city for a couple of days and he was still (...)

Music industry is singing loud and proud in clash with YouTube
- Media & Marketing
- May 2, 2017, 06:00
When you’re repeat-listening to songs that are your definition of joy, songs that are open wounds, music that becomes your cultural glue, the business(...)