After that Plácido Domingo accepted responsibility in allegations of sexual harassment filed against her, she was the soprano Light of the Ruby Dawn, Who narrated how he lived with the situation for two years.
In an interview for ‘Ventaneando’, the singer of Uruguayan origin explained that she lived in Italy in 1998 when she won a competition that secured her a place in the Opera ‘Rigoleto’, which happened to be performed in the same theater where he rehearsed the tenor, whom he considered its maximum inspiration.
He was 26 years old when he met the singer: “He told me, okay if you sing as beautiful as you are“Like lights, it will be very interesting”, He said.
Light of the Ruby Dawn was invited to an audition in Washington in front of Plácido Domingo and previous to this it had the first approaches of harassment with the singer: “He calls me at very rare hours, three in the morning, two in the morning,” he said.
It was in December of 1999 when it was prepared for his hearing in the Kenedy theater, of this city: “He was very protective, very affectionate, but he scratched at small details like giving you a kiss and it was almost on your lips.”, The soprano mentioned.
The singer left Italy and ended her marriage, to start a new professional life in the United States at the hands of the Spanish tenor: “The gallantry passed more to the part, what is it called? excessive… because when one says no, or when 1 proves and clearly says no, Master, I don’t agree, I don’t need to go to any agreement, let’s say, sexual to make a career, he told me well, let’s go to my department, then these things, no. ”
Luz del Alba Rubió detail that Plácido Domingo he was direct in his percussion of having a sexual encounter, but there were always innuendos, such as touching: “I called him master, I sing better than that, I can fend for myself and make myself, you are inviting me to sing here because you know I have talent, and i can’t, i’m not like that“.
After refusing a meeting with the tenor, his professional situation changed drastically, as he was only given a contract to be a supplement for six weeks: “I was penalized and they took my contract, ” he now lives in Uruguay where he works on projects related to culture and opera.
“The whole world of the opera knew the master was like that, a truth we all knew, but no one spoke because there is fear“, Declared the soprano, Light of the Alba Rubió.