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In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo, Placido Domingo performs as Neptune during the final dress rehearsal of "The Enchanted Island," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

"Imagine if they did that to Tom Cruise or John Travolta?" That's Placido Domingo Jr.'s reaction to the "attacks" he says he's under after leaving Scientology.

Placido Domingo has extended his contract as general director of the Los Angeles Opera through 2013.

That gradually became apparent on Saturday night as the legendary tenor realized a long-held dream by singing his first-ever performance as the 14th century Doge of Genoa in a new production at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden.