{"id":16128,"date":"2025-01-27T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=16128"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:31:46","slug":"countertenor-david-daniels-sues-university-michigan-unfair-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/01\/27\/countertenor-david-daniels-sues-university-michigan-unfair-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Countertenor David Daniels Sues University of Michigan For Unfair Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16129\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/David-Daniels-mug-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"David Daniels\" width=\"1200\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/David-Daniels-mug-shot-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/David-Daniels-mug-shot-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/David-Daniels-mug-shot-1-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/David-Daniels-mug-shot-1-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Daniels Photo: Washtenaw County Jail, (Washtenaw County Jail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>David Daniels has filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan. The countertenor has claimed his rights were violated when he was fired in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s going on:<\/strong> This week, the countertenor David Daniels filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/26\/us\/david-daniels-michigan-opera-singer-fired.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">after being dismissed from the school in 2020<\/a>. Daniels was fired after an investigation into sexual misconduct found that Daniels had solicited 3 students and shared explicit videos with another student. He claims the school has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/26\/us\/david-daniels-michigan-opera-singer-fired.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">treated him differently from heterosexual members of the faculty,<\/a> who engaged in similar acts of misconduct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In case you missed it:<\/strong> In 2019, David Daniels and his husband Scott Walters <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/opera-david-daniels-university-firing-d2e5e11fadc290d06b2fe03fdfe04bcc\">were arrested and charged<\/a> after the Rice University student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/04\/arts\/music\/david-daniels-trial-opera.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">Samuel Schultz claimed to have been drugged and sexually assaulted by the couple<\/a>. In 2023, Daniels and Walters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/04\/arts\/opera-star-david-daniels-guilty-plea-sexual-assault.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Before Daniels\u2019 charges, the countertenor enjoyed a glittering career on the world\u2019s greatest stages. He was a tenured professor at the University of Michigan, and former US Supreme Court Justice and opera lover Ruth Bader Ginsburg presided over his wedding to Scott Walters. Since his conviction, Daniels <a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/david-daniels-no-longer-in-agma\/\">has been dropped from AGMA<\/a>, yet still has received offers to restart his singing career in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Daniels has filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan. The countertenor has claimed his rights were violated when he was fired in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":16129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,3],"tags":[508],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/David-Daniels-mug-shot-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16130,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions\/16130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16128"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}