![]() ![]() ![]() Last week, a court in Toulouse found a stagehand at the theater guilty of tampering with the computer system that controlled the prop rock’s descent. But the reality turns out to be so bizarre that it could be an opera itself. The cause of this dangerous mishap was at first a mystery. He rolled out from underneath the object, and quickly got to his feet - which likely confused an audience that had watched Tristan die a short while before. “I panicked and just threw it out of the way,” he recalled of the 2015 incident in a telephone interview. She’d probably decided to alter the choreography and had come to stand over him, he thought.īut when Smith opened his eyes, he saw a 467-pound fake rock hanging just inches from his face. Smith was appearing as Tristan in Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse in France, and he assumed that what he sensed looming was his colleague, the soprano Elisabete Matos, who was singing Isolde. LONDON - The tenor Robert Dean Smith was lying onstage - eyes closed, pretending to be dead - when he felt something very close above him. ![]()
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