Margaret Mikulska wrote: >>Not a long time ago - a couple of seasons - at the Met, a singer in >>Janacek's The Makropoulos case had a fatal heart attack while singing >>something about life being short ... And Jan McDaniel added: >After this tenor's death and subsequent fall stopped that performance, I >heard that Jessye Norman (for whom the production had been mounted) was >reticent to perform the work, feeling that the production might be cursed. >She did, however, eventually return to the show. And it was in December >of 1995, during a series of horrible blizzards, when all this took place. I was listening to this performance on the radio; of course we were not aware of the accident as it happened. But during the first intermission I listened to the Opera Quiz, and it quickly became apparent that something was wrong: the quiz went on and on, with the panel getting more and more exhausted and the quizmaster desperately asking question after question. Finally, after about 35-40 minutes we were told there had been an accident; no details were given and the opera continued, as I recall. Julia Werthimer <[log in to unmask]> California, USA