Just in: Parsifal is cancelled after a technical hitch
mainLast night’s Romeo et Juliette ballet and the general rehearsal for Richard Jones’s new production of Parsifal have been called off by the Opéra de Paris after two cables snapped backstage at the Bastille.
It appears that the incident occurred around a fire door when two 18-tonne counterweight cables broke without warning.
‘The Opéra national de Paris is doing everything possible so that the normal course of performances can resume in the next few days,’ says the company.
That sounds bad.
And Saturday is also cancelled
Parcifal Thursday 10th May also cancelled