Saturday, April 05, 2008
Storied history of mishaps haunts Met
The Columbus Dispatch: "When tenor Gary Lehman slid down the raked stage into the prompter's box March 18 during a performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, stopping the show at the start of Act III, he became part of a storied history of mid-performance mishaps at the Metropolitan Opera."
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It sounds like this run at the Met is doing even worse than the Pittsburgh Opera. I'd heard of the actor dieing while on the ladder before, but hadn't heard of a lot of the other mishaps (including the violinist getting thrown down the airshaft). It just goes to show that theater can be a dangerous business.
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