By Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent Published: 11:16AM GMT twenty-three February 2010
It is hoped that Domingo will be fit to lapse to the Royal Opera House in Jun Photo: REUTERS The show singer, 69, motionless to lapse to New York for a full healing after pang from "physical annoy and reduce intestinal pain" for some-more than a week during performances in Tokyo progressing this month.
Nancy Seltzer, his spokesman, said: "His doctors have dynamic that he needs to bear "medically endorsed surety surgery".
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She declined to criticism on what seizure he had, revelation the New York Times: "I know hes a open figure, but arent sure things authorised to be private?"
She combined that "knowing Plácido, he will be operative as they hurl the gurney in to surgery and again as he leaves recovery".
However, the expected six-week mangle manners out his performances as Bajazet in Handel"s Tamerlano on Mar 5, 8, 11, fifteen and 20.
Last year the Royal Opera House had touted them as being his swansong as a effort on the important Covent Garden Stage, after a career travelling 40 years.
He has achieved there some-more than 200 times.
A orator for the Royal Opera House pronounced his purpose would be taken by Kurt Streit, the American tenor, who was already due to perform as Bajazet on dual Mar dates.
The orator said: "Although it is not prevalent Royal Opera House policy, in approval of the withdrawal of such an well-developed artist in a rarely-performed opera, we will be contacting all sheet holders with sum of a twenty per cent credit note."
It is hoped that Domingo will be fit to lapse to the Royal Opera House in June, when he is due to take on the baritone pretension purpose in Verdi"s 1881 version of Simon Boccanegra.
Had he been means to perform in Mar and June, it would have been the initial time in Royal Opera House story that a actor had sung both effort and baritone purposes in the same season.
Domingo is well well known as a ongoing workaholic.
Besides singing, he additionally conducts and is additionally ubiquitous executive of the Los Angeles Opera and the Washington National Opera, both of that now face monetary problems.
His website carries the copyright countenance "If I rest, I rust" - coined by the American singer Helen Hayes - but a little critics contend he simply tries to do as well much.
John Allison, editor of Opera repository and a song censor for The Sunday Telegraph, said: "Domingo has prolonged been well well known as the operatic world"s majority ongoing over-achiever.
"Many in the commercial operation additionally think that he is comparison than he strictly admits to - that simply creates his outspoken state all the some-more remarkable.
"If he is to retire from singing with dignity, he"ll have to do so inside of a couple of years, but - so prolonged as his healing diagnosis deduction uniformly - I design we"ll be enjoying his performances for a whilst yet."
Domingo last appeared at the Royal Opera House in 2007, behaving as Siegmund in Wagner"s Die Walküre.
As one of the Three Tenors, that additionally enclosed the late Luciano Pavarotti and Jos Carreras, he helped take show to a wider assembly in the 1990s.
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