Death at the opera: today’s premiere is cancelled after backstage fatality

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Death at the opera: today’s premiere is cancelled after backstage fatality
December 1, 2013 by Norman Lebrecht
On Friday at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, an eighteen year-old backstage cleaner, Daniel Ayala, fell three storeys to his death.
Unions say there have been multiple safety violations since the theatre was reopened in 2010, after renovations. Rehearsals were suspended by worker protests and today’s Ballo en Maschera premiere has been called off. Read more here and here.

Death at the opera: today’s premiere is cancelled after backstage fatality