As always, it is difficult to date precisely the birth of an urban legend. The website Snopes.com records its first appearance in an email from 2005[1]. Since then, the legend spread widely throughout the world, mostly via emails, and is repeated as a true story on numerous websites in various languages. Asked by a journalist why he had decided to help his only rival and enemy, Plácido Domingo would have replied: "We cannot afford to lose a voice like that ..."