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 tenor 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 canceling 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 allowed her name to be used next or soprano patricia wolfe. when a man that powerful. he's almost like god in my office when he would come up close and say that the 1st thing that goes through your mind is wind 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 allegations that 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 make 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 know they're 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 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. 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 prisons 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 but the people around him who are all trying to desperately to keep him happy no one wants to upset the cash cow which of course he definitely is not tell us a little bit more about these other reactions that you made it there in spain france yes so a couple of opera singers from spanish opera singers have come forward and said that while they don't necessarily want to disagree with somebody else's experience

they say 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 to 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 horan for bringing us those details. well it's one of the most photographed bridges in the world and things $80.00 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 one of technology that's how the british celebrated the completion of the tower bridge more than 120 years ago. the iconic

landfall spans the thames river in the heart of london since 8094. richard smith is a city going to in london since 2012 he's been showing tourists around for maybe europe's most famous bridge the fairy tale towers of the ultimate monument to victorian in the style but the bridge which draws almost a 1000000 tourists a year also has some 40 elements. there. in 2014 through. the heart and the fist experience here at southridge these panels why is our behalf a ton. of sense for me to stick. strong economic 350 people on here 5 elephants were never managed to get for an offensive 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. today the 244 metre suspension bridge is still one of the city's most important traffic arteries and every day 40000 people have to pass frew this bottleneck but even at rush hour ships always have the right 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 in scientism 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. the list comes tala in bonn beds farewell to find 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 are numbers broke the 600000 barrier in 2018 alone. heads to

amsterdam in december to head up the state 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 bond as the germans say some beautiful with one laughing and one reaping so 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 to the performance artist a serbian performance artist which became very touching and very. very effective if . we have a show like introspective 4th respective of the choreography which was. involving people and visitors through to dance in the exhibition in

a way so i was very much. you guys 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 what's really continued to do it and we continue with it was said from the beginning we need to consider the freedom of an i think submission speech we need to be able to talk about what happened we we also thought that this raised ethical moral questions and we saw just before placido domingo

i would say that what happens in these these in the culture world these days that there is also a bit. more focus on ethical and moral questions i think that's interesting that aesthetics is yes that they say the more that also are able to discuss it on a general level general societal level now the exhibition of the words from the state of cornelius gore let 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 touching narrative showing the whole exhibition of development projects process all feeds and 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. there's looting of this whole project of building a buzy i'm in the lead and so through a museum and what this cost in terms of individual faith 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 big coup. you're particularly admired as a man. and as a fearless leader and you're off to the. museum and what are your plans there just like i mean to stay because of course more of museum of modern contemporary artists are focused and the other was more general in a way what i'm interested in is now to see how we can diversify and how we can globalize a western newseum 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 gain 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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