Fake Rock Almost Crushes Opera Star: Accident or Sabotage?

LONDON – Tenor Robert Dean Smith was lying on stage – eyes closed, pretending to be dead – he felt something very close to him. Smith appeared as Tristan in Wagner’s play “Tristan und Isolde” at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, France, and assumed he was her colleague, the soprano Elisabete Matos, who sang …