An increasing number of testimonies of poisonous management within the cultural sector, composer Miguel Wiels stated: “Individuals must push once in a while”

Jan Raes, who’s at present the director of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and beforehand the director of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, additionally needed to cope with it. “In 2018, I needed to fireplace the principal conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra after inappropriate sexual behaviour. Legal professionals, the media, confidential advisers…: that point was intense, however I’m proud that we continued for the great of the employees,” he testifies in De Afspraak on VRT Canvas.