yeah michael shows us the ins and outs of bulgaria's famous line fred. but 1st meet 2 rocks the world of classical music yet again opera star placido domingo dropped out of a production of various macbeth on the eve of opening night at the new york metropolitan opera while it was to be his 1st u.s. performance since sexual harassment allegations against him were made public just last month. this is what fields concert halls around the world are used to. allegations of sexual harassment against puffy domingo have grown so known that one day before he was scheduled to perform at the metropolitan opera in new york to sing or cancel. we were really looking forward to hearing the voice but we understand too why he

stepped down and. the whole thing is i'm fortunate but if you know what you know way to i'm kind of glad he stepped up it's important that we recognize the suffering of many women. you know like like that women have said for to me too many times of times up for one of the biggest stars in classical music and not just for this performance it's the end of the association between the met and the now 78 year old domingo to multiple allegations spending a period of 30 years range from harassment to threats of ending women's careers domingo continues to dispute the accusations whether or not he will ever perform again is unknown but after a nearly 50 year partnership he certainly will be back at the met. and our classical music expert rick focus has joined me in the studio again welcome rick that does this mean that domingo will never perform again well i don't know if

domingo even knows that himself certainly the very last performance at the met and it's been an incredible career there that's been his main stage he's had hundreds of performances there and probably his last performance in the united states it's certainly the end of an era isn't it that looks like it was a case of the heat just got too hot for both parties who actually cut the ties with the placido domingo or the met well his statement appeared 1st and he said he didn't want to be a burden on the production company or the team and so he was going to step down for that reason although he says the. allegations of sexual misconduct are in accurate the met then issued a more sharply worded statement saying simply the mets and mr domingo have agreed that he must step down and he's of course been quoted in the new york times saying he's concerned about a climate in which people are condemned without due process this is one of those problems that we've seen coming up time and time again with these need to cases has he got a point there well you know he did make some sort of cautious stephens to the effect that he's very sorry if anyone was hurt over the period of his career he also said

apparently the mors and music world have changed drastically in the last 20 years. on the other hand it's kind of. it's kind of an open thing still. it's obviously very very tricky because so many women were involved and it appears obviously that new york has decided to follow the lead of other big houses like philadelphia san francisco what was their thinking in the end when in the king this decision to think well did not simply has this past history of the vine scandal at this point they simply don't want another scandal i'm afraid and with james levi and it was very serious allegations that it's really very sordid wasn't it when it came out very critical it had to do with a little bit more about that you know it had to do with minors it had to do with young boys it had to do with apparently compulsory sex parties and it went on for

years actually for decades and it was kind of an open secret nobody talked about it very much even all of us had heard rumors but it never came on public one of those things where one or will almost has to feel guilty as the media that something wasn't that a little earlier indeed yeah one thinks about that too and for so obviously open secret very much like the movie industry with the situation of harvey weinstein what is it about the classical music scene. itself that makes this kind of think really rather prevalent in the end i mean there are other cases there are other cases i feel that has to do with classical music being a discipline that is very much that a discipline and it has a requires a very intense student teacher relationship power differential is never a power differential mentoring it has to do with also years of sacrifice children who probably don't have a normal as we would call it normal childhood who then in fact it's a fuel of abuse if it's really quite endemic. they're aspiring to please i mean we

know this obviously with with boys choir's with athletes and coaches just one last question does this shake the world of classical music into the core i'm not quite sure of course the met in mr domingo may be one of the most successful singers of all time that's over with but you know we have still had isolated incident incidences compare that to hollywood which seems completely turned upside down in the week of the weinstein scandal and the repercussions from that ok well placido domingo will be replaced by the serbian baritone. folk are will be following that story obviously with you and thanks very much for bringing us those insights. well now to the stuff of a life or it all started story with a childhood obsession with treehouse as british sculptor laura ellen bacon once made one that was 2 stories high and spread over 5 trees

a little did she know about her all weaving with woods technique would lead her to a career as a professional sculptor one who can weave willow into weird and wonderful worlds. it looks like thousands of twigs only intertwined with this is no natural phenomenon it's a sculpture made of willow switches hand-woven by laura ellen bacon don't let go is the sculpture's title the artist created it in coventry central england. the sculpture takes shape from the core outwards beginning with the 1st looped then laura and bacon ties knots and leaves the willow switches on to it always in paris . the only tools i use really is. on fire of property but otherwise it's just it's just one hands but it is quite a jump for motion. the artist has been making her

a sculpture is for 20 years now in green areas as installations on buildings. or inside. laura ellen bacon grew up in county darbyshire in the east midlands where she still lives and works she's been fascinated with nature and creating spaces since she was a girl. well i started making things when i was about 11 because i just used to enjoy taking myself outside and having them i am good at building a tree house which was the very 1st tree house was built with very thin. very thin pieces of wood which was actually as it happens i pull to weave around myself. the artist adds the final touches before she leaves don't like go at the mercy of

it's environment. if it be a natural habitat for insects while ever i've been making all of my work i always see there are tiny little spiders that move in 1st of all often then you see little birds that come and they feed off the insects so it's a bit of a cycle. it's a home for creatures kind of vision from a dream. alan bacon wants to bring humans can reach or together in each of her creations. well speaking of creations my colleague is back in the kitchen with his latest episode of baking bread taking us around the european union in 28 loaves and this time we get initiated into the art of the parlay and that's a grilled flat bread that's typical in bulgaria one of the most recent eastern european countries to see the union in 2007. 1 of quality arias oldest recipes

is flatbread book per lanky. to make them stand by preparing a preliminary go with 145 grams of water 0.7 grams of east and 145 grams of plain flour and leave it to rest for a day before starting on the bread itself. toyman is what lands gary also flat bread it's fluffy nuts. time is something called carrier has plenty of but it doesn't have many people. lots of small gary and so on their crust of broad over the past 30 years europe's poorest country has lost 2000000 inhabitants to migration that's a tough act to crack there's no. easy solution to bulgaria brain drain now it's 270 grams of plain flour and 160 grams of brown bread flour 190 grams of yogurt 6 grams of sugar 13 grams of fresh yeast and 10

grams of salt. bread and salt these are the 2 key ingredients of europe's oldest welcoming ceremony. if you are live on an official visit to bald areas capital sofia a city founded 7000 years ago expect to find this women in traditional garb showing their hospitality with freshly baked loaves. need to do well for about 14 minutes by hand and leave it to rest then split it into 6 pieces sharing is something called areas really good at at least a month it's only cars. and what a lot there is to share. subsidies rights. kickbacks. to the country is the most corrupt e.u.

member state and that drives many citizens away. gary as prime minister nicknamed batman wants to reverse this trend of former bodyguard and firefighter boris of the likes to post about his strength in setting things straight so pressed down firmly rolling from the center to the top leaf dressed for 30 to 40 minutes. next step taken griddle pan and grill the pole lanky on top bunch on both sides of course slip and turn them a lattice pattern will emerge. what you'll see when you are crossing the turkish ball garin border. that's right refugees coming to ball garia don't get the welcome ceremony quite the opposite but if you're a tourist bread and salt will be waiting for you. on the gallery of

speeches you can sizzle like a pole lenka fresh out of the pack. and with that it's time for me to sign off so until next time all the best from us and hope to see you next time.

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