Video: Deaf musician wins court case against the Royal Opera House in London
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chris Goldscheider, a British artist, was able to seek compensation for his damaged hearing through the courts. It turned out that the artist's serious hearing problems began after a rehearsal of the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. During the trial, representatives of this opera insisted that the orchestra had nothing to do with the artist's hearing and that he himself had already developed progressive deafness, and Goldscheider decided to associate it with the actions of the musicians. The judge in charge of this case decided to take the side of the artist, considering that such a scenario was unlikely.
For a long time, the British artist played in the Royal Opera House in London. He started the game here in 2002, and had to leave it in 2014, just due to hearing problems. He connects such problems with the events of 2012. Then Chris had to sit in front of the orchestra pit. During the rehearsal of Wagner's opera Valkyrie, the sound level here exceeded 130 decibels and was comparable in strength to the operation of a jet engine. The British actor believes that it was then that he received serious damage to his hearing, as he felt dizzy, there was a noise in his ears, and then Chris began to react painfully to sounds.
For the next year and a half after receiving such an injury, Goldscheider tried to restore his hearing and eventually decided to appeal to the court. The Royal Opera did not agree with the words of the artist, believing that he had Meniere's disease. This name is a disease of the middle ear, in which hearing is quickly lost. This was said in court and it was noted that such a disease occurs quite often among professional musicians.
No convictions on the part of the representatives of the opera had any effect. The judge decided that musicians, like other citizens, should feel protected. The amount of compensation was not named, as the damage that Goldscheider received has yet to be assessed first. The artist himself hopes that the case he won will lead to the fact that musicians will be less likely to suffer hearing injuries in the future, since all such institutions will reconsider the arrangement of orchestra pits and adopt new rules according to which musicians will be more protected. a court decision.
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