Is there a singer in the house
Interesting story from
CBC/Arts News:
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Audience member replaces heart attack-stricken opera lead
A man who started the evening sitting in the audience for a production of the opera Carmen, ended the night onstage receiving kudos after he replaced a stricken opera singer.
bq. Baritone Ian Vayne had been watching a Monday performance of the Bizet opera at the Landestheater in the city of Linz, Austria, when one of the leads suffered a heart attack in the second act.
bq. "[Vayne] jumped onstage without makeup or costume and, without having warmed up his voice, finished the opera in place of Lauri Vasar," Elisabeth Egger-Mann, a spokesperson for the Landestheater, said on Tuesday.
And the upshot of this:
bq. The opera company has enlisted the quick-acting Vayne to replace the recuperating Vasar in the role of Escamillo, the handsome matador who lures Carmen away from Don José.
bq. Vayne, a singer who works in the German city of Mannheim, said he "never expected something like this to happen."
Cool - and the other singer is "recovering nicely" according to the article.
Posted by DaveH at November 3, 2004 12:40 PM