a famous landmark about the tower bridge. and. its director general hein boy if i do you join me in the studio to talk about his legacy there and his future plans. well his one of the most celebrated personalities in our press had a and now spanish tenor placido domingo has seen his name added to a growing list of powerful men accused of sexual misconduct 9 women say they were sexually harassed by domingo as far back as the 1980 s. and they say his behavior was an open secret in the industry for many years. he's considered one of the most powerful and celebrated singers in the world of opera but passage of the name goes soaring 10 our voice is now said to have long been accompanied by a story surrounding his treatment of women the recent allegations of sexual

harassment have resulted in 2 major houses canceling upcoming performances featuring the star the los angeles opera where domingo as general director has also announced an investigation. 8 singers and a dancer told the associated press that they were sexually harassed by domingo in encounters that took place over 3 decades. but only one of the 9 women has allowed her name to be used and that's a soprano patricia wolfe. born a man that powerful. he's almost like god in my this when he would come up close and say that the 1st thing that goes through your mind is why but you also think as soon as you walk away and get away you think did i just ruin my career. there if you came forward with the allegations said they felt emboldened by the me too movement during your has denied the accusations but no

tears still it is painful to hear that i may have upset anyone made them feel uncomfortable. and joining me in the studio to talk about this is my colleague melissa holroyd thanks for being here melissa just how serious are these allegations you have a fairly serious one accuser has said that domingo stuck his hand down his skirt and 3 others have said that he forcibly kissed other women of spoke of being stalked backstage touched without permission forced to fend off persistent romantic overtures it has to be said that none of these women off the documentation in the form of phone calls or texts or anything like that but the a.p. said it spoke to almost 3 dozen a mostly colleagues who said they also witnessed inappropriate behavior. i think more troubling than this level of harassment is that he's also accused of punishing the women who refused his advances 7 of the 9 women said that their careers suffered adversely. so it's looking like yet another shocking abuse of power we i

mean there are still accusations at the moment which is interesting enough has been received very differently in spain than it has in the rest of the world there's been received a lot more skepticism there in the world of opera it doesn't get much more powerful than domingo as we just heard in the piece he really is something of a god for these people and when your presence guarantees full opera houses and concert halls you can imagine that it would be very easy to abuse that power it's very easy for him to say i don't want to work with that woman anymore so you know any advances at all a very loaded. and also that level of power is very easy to corrupt not just for the person who has that power. around him who are all trying to desperately to keep him happy no one wants to upset a cash cow which of course he definitely is not tell us a little bit more about these other reactions that you intimated there in spain france yes so

a couple of. spanish opera singers have come forward and said that that while they don't necessarily want to disagree with somebody else's experience they're saying they say that he always behaved like a gentleman to them and always treated them with a great deal of respect it's interesting how the different reactions have been because we've had 2 opera houses in the united states canceling concerts and in europe have sort of held on to the appointments to keep our eye on the development of that story thanks very much melissa holroyd for bringing us those details thank you. well it's one of the most photographed bridges in the world in things $8.00 to $94.00 it has straddled straddled the river thames and become an iconic symbol of the british capital london the famous tower bridge of course and in our series on european landmarks to learn about it. a unique structure a revolutionary wonder of technology that's how the british celebrated the

completion of the tower bridge more than 120 years ago. the iconic land ball has spanned the thames river in the heart of london since 1904. richard smith is a city guide in london since 2012 he's been showing tourists around what may be europe's most famous bridge the fairytale towers of the ultimate monument to victorian yoke of style but the bridge which draws almost a 1000000 tourists a year also has some morton element. there. in 2014 to. heighten the visitor experience here it's out of reach of these panels why is our behalf a ton. of sense for me to stick. strong economic 350 people on a 5 elephants were never managed to get far on offense in the mr savva so we can't

prove that. the tower bridge was built at the end of the 19th century to relieve the jam packed streets of london which had the most traffic in the world at the time construction took 8 years architect tourist jones based his design strictly on the style of the famous tower of london. it wasn't until the silver coronation jubilee of queen elizabeth the 2nd in 1977 that the steel parts were painted in britain's national colors red white and. today the 244 suspension bridge is still one of the city's most important traffic arteries every day 40000 people have to pass frew this bottleneck but even at rush hour ships always have the rights of way there are no exceptions. many visitors don't know that the bridges $70000.00 ton towers are part of the

attraction a few times a year the huge empty spaces inside them are used for chamber concerts. but if you can't get tickets for the chamber concerts never fear you can always listen to one of the many street musicians. against a truly iconic and back. the oldest cons tala in bonn bids farewell to high involved its director general since the year 2013 and during that time mr ross was instrumental in raising the museum's profile considerably overseeing a series of daring and often controversial exhibitions on diverse topics such as michael jackson's legacy in pop culture and. the burning topic of

nazi art theft to name just a couple of examples that are numbers broke the 600000 barrier in 2018 alone. heads to amsterdam in december to head up the study to museum for modern and contemporary art 1st he's taken the time to join me here in the studio welcome and so glad you could join us. for your living bond as the germans say some beautiful with one laughing and one reaping. not without a bit of sadness perhaps you can tell me what your personal highlights were during your time. by real highlights was shows i would see which. way the exhibition cui a show like. respect the performance artist a serbian performance artist which became very touching and very. very active.

we had to show. respect to the 4th respective of the germ a choreographer which was. involving people and visitors through to dance or exhibition in a way so i was very much interested in you guys seeing an exhibition planned you know what participants of exhibitions definitely now there was of course the famous michael jackson exhibition on the wall earlier this year which caused quite a stir and that was already planned when the very damning h.b.o. documentary came out about his sexual abuse of children how challenging was it to stay true to that exhibition to hold on to it and. to steer a meaningful conversation around it was challenging because a great amount of the world wanted to know if we would do the show or not if we would stop the show or if you know what's really continued to do it and we continue with it was said from the beginning we need to see the rules of the freedom of an exhibition space we need to be able to talk about what happened if we we also for.

this raised ethical moral questions we saw just before placido domingo i would say that what happens in the world these days in the culture world these days that there's also a bit. more focus on ethical and moral questions i think that's interesting get. yes that they say the more they also are able to discuss it on a general level general societal level now the exhibition of the words from the state of. the son of hitler's art dealer was also a real undertaking because it concentrated on nazi art theft and the consequences there were involved in this process from beginning to end how how did that affect you it affected me very much it was an exhibition which we developed also in close collaboration with the ministry of culture and but we were of course independent as an exhibition space and we were able to build up

a very big narrative showing the whole exhibition development project process all feeds and topic it was an emotional topic and it was in historically very important topic and also a bit of a forgotten topic because everybody knows about nazi germany but this looting and this looting of this whole project of building a buzy i'm in favor of a museum and what this cost in terms of individual fates of people of families who are robbed of their artworks this became very important to make the air and through and through to. open up for the because. you're particularly admired as a man. and as a fearless leader and you're off to. what are your plans there just like i mean to stay because of course more a museum of modern contemporary artists more art focused and the other was more general in a way what i am interested in is now to see how we can diversify and how we can

globalize a west museum in our current time we need to do something we need to become more inclusive and we need to be taken into account what happened in the rest of the world. is definitely going to amsterdam again we wish you all the best in going back to the roots thank you for joining me. and that brings us to the end of this program so from myself and. from.

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