The opera “Sadko” was halted Saturday after tragedy
Yevgeny Kulesh, an opera performer at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre was killed on Saturday after an accident occurred on stage. Kulesh was 38 years old. According to the theater, the accident happened during a set change in “Sadko,” an opera by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Russian reports indicate that Kulesh “went in the wrong direction” as the scenery was descending, and ended up getting crushed beneath it. Kulesh was an extra, one of 50 employees who appear on stage to help round out the singers and dancers.
