Placido Domingo calls in sick

Placido Domingo calls in sick

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norman lebrecht

November 11, 2020

The artist has cancelled forthcoming dates in Italy due to unspecified ‘last minute’ health problems.

He has dropped out of singing at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo and conducting the Verdi Requiem in Piacenza.

Comments

  • V.Lind says:

    Italy’s high-risk these days. He’s in a high-risk bracket (probably not dumb enough to think he’s immune, like the exiting (eventually) US president, just because he had a relatively light case of it once.

    • Karl says:

      Nearly a billion people have contracted covid according to WHO. Only about two dozen people have been infected a second time.

      • Scott says:

        Really? I have a niece who was infected twice. She has no symptoms, but is a carrier.

      • Michael says:

        Please! Maths may not be your forte, but the number of global confirmed cases is a little over 50 million (WHO – look it up!). So your (mis)information is off by a factor of 20x. Even if we wanted to count all the unconfirmed, untested, asymptomatic cases around the world, none but the drunkest of scientists (or pseudo-scientists you would presumably prefer listening to) would suggest one in seven people on the planet had already contracted COVID-19. Please keep your utter nonsense to yourself. Thank you.

  • The View from America says:

    Rats — I guess we’ll have to call off our field trip to Italy now …

    • It’s unclear to me why you will not print by sarcastic answer to this comme I’ll faut The-View-From-America sarcastic, insulting, and ignorant post, which you permit to stand, but my mild admittedly sarcastic tit for tat xenophobic Trumpist statement is allowed public credence. The usual hypocrisy. All “anti-American” utterance must be excised.

    • Liam Allan-Dalgleish says:

      Make that “is not allowed public credence.”

  • I hope Placido gets well soon. I miss him at the MET. God Bless Placido

  • Greg Bottini says:

    You had a good long run, Placido.
    It’s time to retire.

    • Saskia Ellmer says:

      You are so right. Beside sickness or not, it’s high time for him to retire.

    • BruceB says:

      Hahahahaha.
      I mean, I agree, but if he was ever going to retire “when it was time,” he would have retired about 3 times already. I can only imagine him working until he drops dead onstage/ on the podium/ in an airport somewhere.

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