Is Opera Dangerous?

In this video I answer the question “Is Opera Dangerous?” And my answer is “YES!” In opera there are huge set pieces being moved around, heavy and sometimes dangerous props to use, and crowd scenes that can get a little too wild! Here I share a few of my personal scary stories of close calls on the opera stage.
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[@ame1hp]

This brought back memories of my grandmother. She was a child dancer in the 1920s and had many stories. One performance she danced right off the stage and landed in the lap of one of the brass players! Stay safe and thank you for the beautiful singing.

[@dyllpickle8890]

You're a tremendous inspiration of mine, should i ever sing operaticaly i hope its like you

[@lauracipollone294]

Cenerentola with the moving stairs, that was in Bologna!! I remember!!! Love you Michael!

[@tierrasdeleyenda]

Not in the same level of dangerousness, but I remember an anecdote of Pavarotti regarding this. He recalled when he destroyed a chair in a production of Ballo in Maschera by sitting on it and they had to reinforce it.

[@andrewbloom7694]

Caruso is actually believed to have died from a stage accident. A prop collapsed and crushed his abdomen and lower chest during a Samson and Delilah performance.
It was pretty bad, just FYI, nut from the sources in his Wiki article:
The day after it happened, he "suffered a chill and developed a cough and a "dull pain in his side". A few days later during a L'elisir d'amore he began "spitting blood as a result of a mouth or throat haemorrhage and the performance was cancelled at the end of Act 1". Within a couple weeks "the pain in his side was so excruciating that he was screaming". Drs finally correctly discovered the purulent pleurisy and empyema. He "lapsed into a coma and at one point, nearly died of heart failure". He did recover enough to live a few more months but eventually he got so bad "Drs commended that his left kidney be removed". But on his way to italy for the operation he crashed, and died that day from "peritonitis arising from a burst subphrenic abscess". Its basically an infection that obliterates the diaphragm and surrounding organs, its...exactly as bad as it sounds even NOW, let alone in 1921.

[@donquijote9058]

👍👍👍

[@thomasdahlen8533]

Karen Armstrongwas a terrible soprano.Sorry.She sang because she was married to a famous german Theater und opern direktor.Same with Anja Silja exept she was not married to the big elephant.