Just in: US soprano faints on Scala stage, then gets up and sings on
mainLa Repubblica reports that the American soprano Kristin Lewis collapsed on stage in the penultimate performance of Porgy and Bess, was treated by a doctor in full view of the audience and resumed the role after an eight-minute gap. Apparently, they couldn’t lower the curtain because she lay at the front, beneath the proscenium.
She announced to the audience, ‘I’m fine. The show must go on’.
The faint was caused by low blood-pressure, according to the report.
Gives new meaning to “the show must go on”. Pretty amazing.
She should eat more salt.
And who can forget how Jussi Björling suffered a heart attack shortly before a performance at Covent Garden in 1960 – which did not stop him from singing.