An artist died when an accident occurred during a change of scenery during an opera at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater on Saturday, the theater said.
In his late 30s, the man was working as an extra in a performance of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “Sadko”.
Russian news reports said the man was crushed by a piece of landscape and videos of the event Circulating online, this showed it happened as a backdrop that landed on the stage. As the choir continues to sing and The orchestra continued to playThere was a sudden movement on the stage. The demonstrators waved their arms and said, “Stop!” Yell. The music stopped and most of the performers got off the stage while a few went behind the stage to help the man. Curtains closed.
Bolshoi said in a statement that the show was stopped immediately and the audience was asked to leave.
“A tragic accident happened during the production of ‘Sadko’ tonight,” Bolshoi, one of Russia’s most prestigious theaters, said in a statement. The theater said it helped investigators trying to determine the circumstances of the man’s death.
The man was determined to be Yevgeny Kulesh. He worked as part of a 50-member group of Bolshoi employees who served as extras on stage and supported singers and dancers.
Russian news reports said that the audience was initially unaware of the death and thought the panic on the stage was part of the performance.
There are strange deaths and injuries in the Bolshoi. In 2013, he became the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. be seriously injured when a masked man throws acid in his face. In the same year, a violinist who fell into the orchestra pit died.