Is this the end of the #Metoo musical line?

Is this the end of the #Metoo musical line?

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norman lebrecht

December 03, 2018

Daniele Gatti, ousted at the Concertgebouw for alleged concupiscence with members of staff, has been installed as music director at Rome Opera.

Charles Dutoit, sacked everywhere after accusations of actual rape (which he denied), now has a position in Russia and plenty of guest work in Japan.

Siegfried Mauser, convicted in a Munich court of sexual assaults at the Academy of Music, is being defended by his pal Nike Wagner as ‘a victim of university intrigue’.

So is that it? Has the whole campaign to defend victims of sexual assault come to no more than a rap on the knuckles in a world whose attention span is shorter than a Trump tweet?

Will the classical music world go back to its bad old ways? Has it done so already?

The only answer we have at the moment is: not quite. Some precautions have been put in place. Predators will have to be more careful. But the storm has blown out. The show has moved on.

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