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The Metropolitan Opera has fired world-renowned British stage director John Copley over alleged “inappropriate behavior,” officials said — the second high profile sex harassment scandal to strike the Met in two months.

A chorus member has complained about Copley’s behavior in a rehearsal room earlier this week, the Met told The Associated press on Thursday.

Copley, 84, was directing a revival of his own 1990 production of Rossini’s “Semiramide,” which was set to open Feb. 19; the Met did not elaborate on his alleged behavior.

The Met suspended revered conductor James Levine, the institution’s music director emeritus, in December after a Post expose led to multiple victims coming forward to describe forcible sex assaults from as far back as the 1960s.

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