Placido: I’m in a sex-rap ‘nightmare’

Embattled baritone Placido Domingo says he’s living in a “nightmare” after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment.

“There’s no doubt these have been the most difficult months of my life,” he told Spanish newspaper El Confidencial in an interview published Friday.

“I have found relief and a lot of strength on the European stages,” he said, noting the warm welcome he felt while rehearsing for his Dec. 2 debut in Verdi’s “Nabucco” at the Palau Les Arts in Valencia, Spain.

“I continue working, studying, rehearsing and acting. This gives me the serenity I need to face this nightmare,” he said.

The top tenor again denied the allegations of sexual harassment first made by eight singers and one dancer in a bombshell report from the Associated Press last August.

The women variously told the AP that Domingo pursued them relentlessly, pressured them to attend one-on-one meetings and punished them if they rebuffed his unsolicited gropes and kisses.

Domingo, 78, told El Confidencial that Spaniards like himself are “warm, affectionate and loving” by nature, and his attempts to be “gallant” may have been misinterpreted.

“I have been gallant, but always within the limits of chivalry,” he argued. “Gallant gestures today are perceived very differently.”

Domingo said he feels “prematurely judged, sentenced and convicted,” stressing he has not been formally charged with any crime.

In the aftermath of the lengthy AP exposé, Domingo withdrew from a production at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera and stepped down from his general director role at the LA Opera.

“Recent accusations that have been made against me in the press have created an atmosphere in which my ability to serve this company that I so love has been compromised,” he said in a statement to the Daily News after his LA Opera exit.