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Opera cast perform in bar after power cut
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 17 February 2009
One from the opera files, because we are suckers for ‘show must go on’ stories. The cast of a new opera were forced to give their press night performance in the bar of the Royal Opera House on Saturday.
The performance of Into The Little Hill, an updated take on the Pied Piper story, was due to take place at the venue’s Linbury Studio theatre, but the lights went out ten minutes in and the 400-strong audience sat in darkness for twenty minutes whilst technicians attempted to resolve the issue.
Unfortunately, they couldn’t, so the audience were sent to the bar for a free drink, and the cast of the show joined them a bit later to perform the rest of the opera. Only about a hundred members of the audience had the patience to wait for it, but it sounds like it was worth it.
A critic from the times wrote: “In that confined space it was mesmerising. Who needs lights?”
