Im voice i do you hell join me in the studio to talk about his legacy their hands 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. Hes 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 a story 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 allowed her name to be used next or soprano patricia wolfe. When a man that. Hes almost like got in my office 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 is you came forward with the allegation said they felt emboldened by the me to movement doing it 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 theyre fairly serious one accuser has said that domingo stuck his hand down her 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 authored 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 hes also accused of punishing the women who refused his advances 7 of the 9 women said that their careers suffered adversely. So its looking like yet another shocking abuse of power we i mean there is 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 theres been received a lot more skepticism. And there in the world of opera it doesnt 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 its very easy for him to say i dont want to work with that woman anymore so you know any advances at all a very loaded day and also that level of power is very easy to corrupt not just for 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 the 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 have both said that that while they dont necessarily want to disagree with somebody elses experience they
say they say that he always behaved like a gentleman to them and always treated them with a great deal of respect its interesting how the different reactions have been because weve had 2 opera houses in the United States canceling concerts and in europe have sort of held on to the their appointments to keep our eye on the development of that story thanks very much Melissa Horan for bringing us those details thank you. Well thats one of the most photographed bridges in the world and since 84. 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 thats how the british celebrated the completion of the tower bridge more than 120 years ago. The iconic
landfall spans of the thames river in the heart of london since 8094. Richard smith is a city guy in london since 2012 hes been showing tourists around for maybe europes most famous bridge the Fairy Tale Towers are the ultimate monument to victorian in the style but the bridge which draws almost a 1000000 tourists a year also has some element. In 2014 through. Heighten the experience here its our bridge. Is our behalf a ton. Of sense for me to stick. Strictly strong economic 250 people on here 5 elephants were never managed to get far on offense in the lift our salvation we cant 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 wasnt until the silver Coronation Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd in 1977 that the steel parts were painted in Britains National colors red white and. Today the 244 Suspension Bridge is still one of the citys most important Traffic Arteries and 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 dont know that the bridges 70000. 00 sun 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 cant 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 row. Im going to cons tala in bonn bids farewell to hang its Director General since the year 2013 and during that time mr ross was instrumental in raising the museums profile considerably overseeing a series of daring and often controversial exhibitions on diverse topics such as Michael Jacksons legacy in pop culture and. The burning topic of Nazi Art Theft to name just a couple of examples numbers broke the 600000 barrier in 2018 alone. Heads to. December to head up the state of the museum for modern and Contemporary Art 1st hes 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 and one reaping adda so not without a bit of sadness perhaps you can tell me what your personal highlights were junior 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 active. We had to show. Respect to the 4th perspective of the. People and visitors through to dance exhibition in
a way so i was very much interested in humid ising an exhibition planned to support 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 over the 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 we would 3 d. Continue to do it and we continue with it we 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 for. This raised ethical moral questions and 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 bit. More focus on ethical and moral questions i think thats interesting that aesthetics is 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 lets the son of hitlers art dealer was also a real undertaking because it concentrated on Nazi Art Theft and the consequences they 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 at the Elephant Project Process All Fields and the topic it was an emotional topic at it wasnt
historically very important topic and also a bit of a forgotten topic because Everybody Knows about nazi germany but this looting arent and theres looting over this whole project of building a museum in leading through a museum in london and what this cost in terms of individual faith of people of families who are wrapped of their artworks this became very important to make the air and through and through to. Open up for the big audience youre particularly admired as a man. And as a fearless leader and youre off to the stankovic. And what are your plans there just like i mean to stay that is of course more a Museum Of Modern Contemporary Art this more 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 last is definitely going to be im sometimes gangway wish you all the best in that im 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 here in berlin and im just. Robots are still in the Development Phase of the book thats going to happen when they grow. On official intelligence is now spreading through our society ai will experts be able to agree on ethical guidelines or will this Technology Create deadly more autonomy weapon systems. Paradise lips in 50 t. W. Enter the Conflict Zone confronting the powerful. My guest this week here in berlin is the Qatari Foreign ministers folks passing on the last 2 years the gulf states of qatar has been blockaded by a court stance of the arab states which of jews its of supporting terrorism she has always denied the charges. Conflicts of. Minutes on t. W. What
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