OPERATIC LAST RITES

A powder sprinkled into the orchestra pit during the second intermission in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell at New york’s Metropolitan Opera House on 15 October triggered a terror scare. Visitors feared an anthrax attack and Met officials had to cancel the rest of the opera. However, several audience members said a man had told them he was there to spread the ashes of a friend, his mentor in the opera. D.Mail, 31 Oct 2016.