Royal Opera Takes Vilar’s Name Down

London’s Royal Opera has stripped Alberto Vilar’s name from its young artists program. “The Vilar Young Artists Programme has been renamed the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in honour of the chair of the Oak Foundation, a philanthropic organisation set up by Alan M Parker, one of Britain’s richest self-made millionaires. The Covent Garden opera house decided to remove Mr Vilar’s name after he stopped paying for the programme in March 2002.”