LONDON — British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig was handed a suspended jail sentence on Tuesday, Could 28, after pleading responsible to baby intercourse offenses.
The classical music conductor had admitted to messaging somebody he believed to be a 14-year-old boy.
Choose Alexander Milne advised the 70-year-old he had been “humiliated within the public eye”, sentencing him to 14 months in jail, a sentence that was suspended for 2 years.
He described Latham-Koenig’s actions as “deeply worrying conduct” in the course of the sentencing at London’s Southwark Crown Courtroom.
Latham-Koenig was the primary British-born conductor to grow to be creative director of a Russian opera firm, and was honored by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 with an award for providers to music and UK-Russia cultural relations.
In a protracted profession, he has carried out the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and all of the BBC ensembles.
READ: Russian star conductor on the dock
He was charged with three baby sex-offense costs after being arrested in January this yr.
Latham-Koenig used a relationship app to “strike up conversations with an individual whom he believed was Jacob, a 14-year-old boy,” the courtroom heard.
In truth, the individual was an undercover police officer.
Their conversations grew to become sexual and Latham-Koenig gave him a practice ticket to Victoria station in London so they might meet. As an alternative, the conductor was arrested on the station.
Throughout his time on the Novaya Opera in Moscow, Latham-Koenig staged the town’s premiere of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde,” one of many cornerstones of Western classical music.
The Novaya Opera was based by former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov to be an opera for the folks, cheaper and extra accessible than the better-known Bolshoi.
Its founding director Yevgeny Kolobov was universally admired however the home floundered after his loss of life in 2003, rediscovering its momentum underneath Latham-Koenig’s management.
We might love to listen to extra from you! Assist us enhance your studying expertise by answering this survey.