Domingo on song again after colon cancer scare
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April 7, 2010, Wednesday
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PLACIDO Domingo is back and ready to sing around the world.
But first the star tenor opened his new Manhattan restaurant - just four weeks after colon cancer surgery.
"I was lucky to have the pain," said the 69-year-old Spaniard, who was forced to interrupt a busy international schedule after a tour of Japan, where he experienced severe pain in his abdominal area.
"And I also wasn't able to lift my left leg easily," he said as he, with a smile, picked it up off his chair.
In fact, these were fortuitous symptoms that spurred him to fly to New York, where his primary physician at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dr Valentin Fuster, quickly delivered the diagnosis: a malignant polyp in the colon.
"And he said, 'There's no way you're going on to London.'" Domingo said.
Instead, the cancerous tissue was surgically removed on March 2.
Looking rested and tanned on Monday night, Domingo chatted during the opening party for the East Side restaurant Zengo, which he co-owns.
Amid talk of tapas and tequila, he addressed a much more serious subject: colonoscopies. He had never had one before but issued an urgent appeal: "Every person in this world should have a colonoscopy. I want to say to people, just do it!"
In its early stages, colon cancer often displays no symptoms. Domingo said he was simply lucky, and when his cancer was caught it was localized and had not spread.
He is to fly to Italy later this week to rehearse Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" at Milan's Teatro alla Scala. He's also appearing in concerts in Moscow and the capital of Qatar, Doha.
Meanwhile, the tenor is catching up with a mountain of get-well mail. One fan wrote: "Rest well, for your most important role - yourself."
(AP)
But first the star tenor opened his new Manhattan restaurant - just four weeks after colon cancer surgery.
"I was lucky to have the pain," said the 69-year-old Spaniard, who was forced to interrupt a busy international schedule after a tour of Japan, where he experienced severe pain in his abdominal area.
"And I also wasn't able to lift my left leg easily," he said as he, with a smile, picked it up off his chair.
In fact, these were fortuitous symptoms that spurred him to fly to New York, where his primary physician at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dr Valentin Fuster, quickly delivered the diagnosis: a malignant polyp in the colon.
"And he said, 'There's no way you're going on to London.'" Domingo said.
Instead, the cancerous tissue was surgically removed on March 2.
Looking rested and tanned on Monday night, Domingo chatted during the opening party for the East Side restaurant Zengo, which he co-owns.
Amid talk of tapas and tequila, he addressed a much more serious subject: colonoscopies. He had never had one before but issued an urgent appeal: "Every person in this world should have a colonoscopy. I want to say to people, just do it!"
In its early stages, colon cancer often displays no symptoms. Domingo said he was simply lucky, and when his cancer was caught it was localized and had not spread.
He is to fly to Italy later this week to rehearse Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" at Milan's Teatro alla Scala. He's also appearing in concerts in Moscow and the capital of Qatar, Doha.
Meanwhile, the tenor is catching up with a mountain of get-well mail. One fan wrote: "Rest well, for your most important role - yourself."
(AP)
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