After Placido Domingo she accepted responsibility for the sexual harassment allegations against her, she was a soprano The Light of the Blonde’s Dawn, who recounted how he lived with the situation for two years.
In an interview with Ventaneando, the Uruguayan-born singer said she lived in Italy in 1998 when she won a competition that secured her a seat at the “Rigoleto” Opera, which happened to be performed in the same theater where she rehearsed. . the tenor, who you considered his supreme inspiration.
He was 26 years old when he met the singer: “She is OK if you sing as cute as you do“As you can see, it’s going to be very interesting.”, He said.
The Light of the Blonde’s Dawn he was invited to hear in front of Washington Placido Domingo and before that he had his first approaches to harassment with the singer: “He calls me at weird hours, three in the morning, two in the morning,” He said.
In December 1999, when he was preparing for his audition at the Kenedy Theater in that city: “He was very protective, very affectionate, but bordered on small details, such as kissing you and he was almost on his lips.”mention the soprano.
The singer left Italy and ended her marriage to start a new professional life in the United States with the Spanish tenor: “The gallantry is over several parts, how do you say? Excessive… because when someone says no or when it is clearly shown and it is said no, teacher, I do not agree, I do not have to go to any agreement, say, sexual to make a career, I said okay, let’s go to my department, then those things, no.
Luz del Alba Rubió detailed that Placido Domingo He was directly in his role in having a sexual encounter, but there were always innuendos, such as touching: “I called him a teacher, I sing better than that, i can get up and do it, you invite me to sing here because you know i have talent and I can’t, I’m not“.
After refusing to meet the tenor, his professional situation changed dramatically, as he was awarded a contract only to be a substitute for six weeks: “they penalized me and they took my contract “, He now lives in Uruguay, where he works on projects related to culture and opera.
“Everyone in the opera knew the teacher was like that, a truth we all knew, but no one spoke because there is fear“declared soprano, Luz del Alba Rubió.