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Sir John Eliot Gardiner: Renowned conductor to get ‘specialist help’ after ‘punching singer’ at concert

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, a classical conductor, has said he is “heartbroken to have caused so much distress” after allegedly punching a musician during a show in France. The incident happened in La Cote-Saint-Andre in France, where the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir had just performed Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Bass singer William Thomas …

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John Eliot Gardiner pulls out of BBC Proms after punching singer

An internationally renowned conductor has pulled out of the BBC Proms after punching and slapping a soloist for allegedly entering the stage incorrectly at the Berlioz festival in France. Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 80, assaulted William Thomas, 29, an English bass who represented England in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, after an opera …

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