Operatic Pitfalls
A viola player, Denise Lyttle, overbalanced and fell into the orchestra pit on to a cellist during a performance of the Christmas opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” in the Repertory Theatre. “There was a slight disturbance, but luckily the pit lights did not go off and we were able to continue,” said Professor J. A. Ritchie, conductor of
the Christchurch Civic Orchestra. Paddy Bergin, one of the two boys playing the part of Amahl, recovered from a brief sickness to sing in a performance on Saturday, but on Saturday night suffered a further mishap. He was presented with a box of chocolates and broke a tooth when he started to eat one.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31234, 5 December 1966, Page 1
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