Spanish tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo was general director of LA Opera from 2003 to 2019. To date, he has sung 27 different roles with the company including, most recently, the baritone title role of Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" (September 2015) as well as Giorgio Germont in Verdi's "La traviata", Athanael in Massenet's "Thaïs", Francesco Foscari in Verdi's "I due Foscari", Pablo Neruda in Daniel Catán's "Il Postino", Siegmund in "Die Walküre", Vidal Hernando in "Luisa Fernanda", and the title roles in "Simon Boccanegra", "Tamerlano", "Idomeneo" and "Parsifal". He has also conducted 16 different operas and numerous concerts with the company. He resigned in October 2019 following numerous accusations of sexual misconduct.