Monday, October 28, 2024
After A Decade, Met Opera Settles On-Stage Injury Lawsuit
www.broadwayworld.com: More than a decade after a serious onstage accident ended her career, veteran mezzo-soprano Wendy White has settled her lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera, reports the New York Times. Ms. White was injured during a December 2011 performance of Faust when a platform on the Met stage collapsed, causing her to fall eight feet and sustain injuries that ended her singing career.
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While incidents in any industry (and especially live entertainment where so many factors are at play) are not completely preventable, we must do everything we can to limit the risks. However, no amount of preparation, safety precautions, and walkthroughs can prevent every risk from existing and make it so nothing goes wrong. Every time something goes wrong at this scaleand especially when things go wrong during a performance, it immediately becomes very noticeable to a large group of people in the audience and can be very alarming. People can very quickly start to think that the theater isn’t “safe” and it needs to be fixed when in reality, even with the most robust safety procedures, things like this do happen. I do hope though that the Met learned from this and all other incidents in order to minimize the chance of future incidents like this happening and I am glad that the person injured finally got compensation.
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