The Defenestration of Domingo
Quillette,
by
Heather MacDonald
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
10/21/2019 1:43:53 PM
The #MeToo movement has ended the U.S. career of legendary 78-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, one of classical music’s greatest ambassadors and impresarios. For nearly half a century, Domingo’s intense stage presence and warm, soaring voice captivated opera audiences; during the 1990s, he reached millions of new listeners as a member of the itinerant Three Tenors. In recent years, long after most singers have retired from the stage, he has continued a grueling international performance schedule, now singing baritone roles with remarkable pitch control and legato.
Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career. He was pivotal in creating Los Angeles’s first full-time opera company, LA Opera,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LWGII 10/21/2019 2:16:17 PM (No. 213652)
So we were first Slouching Towards Gommorah, and now we're Creeping Towards Shariah. Men will not be able to be alone with women for fear of being slandered for things that never happened decades ago,
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 10/21/2019 2:32:48 PM (No. 213676)
Were these allegations thoroughly investigated? It appears he did little or anything particularly wrong... and the women were largely... consensual, or at least at the time hardly traumatized. What a world. This article has some real zingers, particularly toward the end, regarding these puritanical, hypocritical sexual predators. That's right. They are the predators.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BillW. 10/21/2019 2:53:38 PM (No. 213688)
"Creeping Towards Shariah." Good one, Numero Uno. :)
KAG
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 10/21/2019 3:03:22 PM (No. 213699)
This hansom, rich, famous man probably had strange women throwing their hotel room keys at him and crawling through his window at night. In today's world, those women would be considered his victims if they later decided to regret their actions.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 10/21/2019 3:21:40 PM (No. 213720)
These are the events that continue to pump up my sadness quotient unmercifully! Besides, always much preferred Domingo to Pavarotti.....
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 10/21/2019 3:50:09 PM (No. 213739)
It's time we silenced anonymous voices.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ramona 10/21/2019 3:57:42 PM (No. 213747)
I never got to see him live, but last year I did seem in Live in HD from the Met in Luisa Miller. His entrance on stage was breathtaking - I wasn't prepared for the enormous sense of presence. . . and then he began to sing. He is beyond masterful. I hate the Met and all the crybabies who spoiled the pleasure so many others would have from seeing him again.
Here's a clip of that entrance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSjgviKkTA
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 10/21/2019 3:58:13 PM (No. 213748)
he's now just an OLD GUY..
of no use to the New World Order..
find a bus, throw him under..
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jubal 10/21/2019 4:00:38 PM (No. 213751)
Damn! I've been waiting for an article such as this forever.
Obviously, it HAD to be written by a woman. Heather is the ideal author.
Any male who attempted to express any sentiments aligned with those made
here would have been relegated to the northern reaches of
Alaska or drawn and quartered.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 10/21/2019 4:30:41 PM (No. 213776)
This is very well written. I had been swayed by the LA Times hit piece, but Heather MacDonald just brought me back to my senses. Thanks for posting.
By the way, I don't suppose we'll be seeing "Three Tenors" on PBS pledge drives anymore.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
snakeoil 10/21/2019 4:47:15 PM (No. 213793)
There are rumors that Adam sexually harassed Eve. He's more Mario Cavaradossi than Scarpia. Enough of using what happened decades ago to ruin someone.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 10/21/2019 5:22:16 PM (No. 213814)
Frankly, I love my home piano. I can play all day long and nobody sues me. Halfway through the learning process on any given composition though, they probably should lol.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/21/2019 6:41:35 PM (No. 213888)
I had the privilege of seeing/hearing Placido Domingo perform as Calaf in Puccini’s Turandot in Los Angeles some years ago. The most gloriously beautiful music, perfectly performed. He was absolutely wonderful - his voice, his looks, his acting ability. He brought the character to life and melted the icy princess… None of the other tenors had what he had for so very long.
Along the way I imagine this extraordinary man was the object of a number of passes by women who were looking for someone like him in a field where many men are gay or might as well be. I have read what some of their accusations amounted to. If a male friend said what he said, many women would take it as a compliment and move on. Marta, his wife, former singing partner, and associate in his productions, is still with him - since their marriage in 1962. I imagine she understands what this is all about.
He has left the Met. Their loss. He has also left the Los Angeles Opera. An even greater loss for that community. He has returned to Europe. I don’t believe #MeToo carries much weight there. They will see more of him. Again, our loss.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/21/2019 6:53:14 PM (No. 213896)
And who should pop up but Debra Katz, Christine Blowsey Ford’s lesbian lawyer, another of the Lawfare cabal that tried to keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court… She’s becoming a ubiquitous as Gloria Allred.
The gloating was immediate. Debra Katz, a high profile sex discrimination lawyer who represents Patricia Wulf, announced that Domingo’s resignation from LA Opera was “an important and welcome step in the effort to end sexual misconduct by powerful men in the opera industry.” Katz had failed to keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court on behalf of another client, Christine Blasey Ford, so Domingo’s scalp must have been a welcome consolation prize. Katz had earlier lit into Peter Gelb for his failure to cave immediately to the pressure to eject Domingo from the Met stage. The “more than 20 women who were sexually harassed by Mr. Domingo” deserve the public and the arts world’s “respect and appreciation” for their “pain and indignity,” Katz told Gelb in a letter, not the “victim shaming” that Gelb had allegedly engaged in by stating that the allegations against Domingo were uncorroborated. Patricia Wulf presented herself as a heroic whistleblower: “I feel at peace knowing that speaking publicly is leading to changes that will hopefully protect the next generation of women in the industry.”
Bunk. Rubbish.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/21/2019 7:02:56 PM (No. 213898)
Now that I have read MacDonald’s long and very worthwhile piece - after reading hit pieces in the LA Times and elsewhere which made me sick - I can give her a resounding “Brava!!!!” Do read this, whether you care about Placido Domingo or not. It’s that important...
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Fine. As all the 'greats' are castrated, does this group think anyone in the gay, lesbian,whatevers can replace him?
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