Chorus conductor killed in rehearsal
mainTerrible story just in from Germany.
The Swiss conductor Carl Robert Helg was killed while rehearsing a farewell gala performance in Karlsruhe for the director of Baden State Theatre.
It appars he had climbed up a lighting gantry on Saturday to get a better overview of the choirs and suffered a fatal fall. More details here.
Terrible!
It is generally assumed here that it was no accident ,but suicide.Police invistigation points in this direction.
Among opera people it was a bareyly hidden fact that Mr.Helg suffered from severe depression during the last months.However it may have been,it is horrible to lose a well respected and beloved colleague under such harrowing circumstances.