The tenor who fell off a chair, and carried on singing…
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Alex Frankel tells us: ‘This was the Scenes concert for Marlena Malas’s program at Chautauqua. It was originally planned that I would stand on the table for the end of the duet, but the chair had other plans… It all happened in slow motion, and once I realized I wasn’t going to get splinters in my ass I remembered that I had to SING.”
Jan Hendrik Rootering’s weight TWICE caused chairs to crumble at the Vienna State Opera – once in Walküre and once in Rosenkavalier. Sadly no video document appears to exist.