famous landmark but the tower bridge still trumps them all. and of course tell him bond visits director general hind voice i do you feel joined 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 placidyl 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 soaring 10 of voice is now said to have long been accompanied by stories surrounding his treatment of women the recent allegations of sexual harassment have

resulted in 2 major houses counseling upcoming performances featuring the star the los angeles opera where domingo is 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 known her name to be used that's or soprano patricia wolff. born a man that how. he's almost like god in my eyes when he would come up close and say that the 1st thing that goes through your mind is in one hand but you also think as soon as you walk away and get away you think did i just ruin my career. there is you came forward with the allegation said they felt emboldened by the me too movement during their has denied the accusations but

no tears still it is painful to hear that i may have upset anyone make them feel uncomfortable. 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 know they're fairly serious one accuser has said that domingo stuck his hand on her skirt and 3 others have said that he forcibly kissed them 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 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 interestingly 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. and 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 movement anymore so you know any advances at all a very loaded. and also that level of power is the reason to corrupt not just the person who has that power but people 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 now 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 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 point let's keep our eye on the development of that story thanks very much melissa holroyd for bringing us those details. 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 call spans 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 in the yoko flick style but the bridge which draws almost a 1000000 tourists a year also has some elements. in 2004 trying to. heighten the experience here it's our bridge these panels why it's our behalf and. centimeters thick. strong economic 350 people on here 5 elephants were never managed to get far on offense in the lift our

salvation 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 horace 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. the 244 suspension bridge is still one of the city's most important traffic archery every day 40000 people have to parse fruit this book from nick 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 charm towers are part of the

attraction a few times a year the huge empty spaces in science 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 backdrop of. the goodness in bonn bids farewell to high involves its director general sense the year 2013 and during that time most of us 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

not seeing art theft to name just a couple of examples where visitor numbers broke the 600000 barrier in 2018 alone. heads to amsterdam in december to head up the stated i am 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. here living bon as the germans say some beautiful with one laughing one reaping so not without a bit of sadness perhaps chicken out. tell me what your personal highlights were during your time. by real highlights was shows i would say which. in a way the exhibition cui a show like. respect to the performance artist a serbian performance artist which became very touching and very human very active . and we have a show like. respect here for it perspective of the germ

a choreographer which was also. involving engage people and visitors to to dance also in the exhibition it always so i was very much interested in you guys saying an exhibition planned to supportive 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 over the plan 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 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 we would 3 we continued to do it and we continue with it we said from the beginning we need to consider the freedom of and i think submission speech we need to be able to talk about what happened 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 is also a. focus on ethical and moral questions i think us interests to get the aesthetics yes to think so the more that also are able to discuss it on a general level general societal level not the exhibition of the words from the state of let's of hitler's art dealers also. real undertaking because it concentrated on nazi art theft and the consequences you 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 touchy ignorant tears during the whole exhibition at the elephant project proceso fields and the topic it was an emotional topic and it was a historically very important topic and also a bit of a forgotten topic because everybody knows about nazi germany but this looting arts and this looting of i've been this whole project of building up museum in leading fewer of museum it and what this course is of individual feats of people of families who were robbed of their artworks this became very important to make the air and to. open up for the big audience you're particularly admired as a man of i.d.'s and as a fearless leader and you're off to the stage. what are your plans there just like i mean to stay because of course more of 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 western 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 last is definitely going to be i'm surrounds again we wish you all the best in going back to the roots thank you for joining me. thank you and that brings us to the end of this program so from myself and from. the best from here in berlin and until next time just.

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