tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post4805657652796669625..comments2024-03-05T10:14:38.181+00:00Comments on CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST: Met Rheingold and MORE coming upDoundou Tchilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-64910476809576065722010-10-11T02:11:15.434+01:002010-10-11T02:11:15.434+01:00It's old technology to fly people on stage - I...It's old technology to fly people on stage - I've seen photos from the 20s and 30s, and I bet it was done in the 19th c. I'm not the slightest bit worried about someone falling to their death. I am slightly worried about someone being in the wrong place and getting crushed by The Machine, as the Met staff is calling it, though there are supposed to be built-in safety mechanisms to stop the thing while it's in motion.<br /><br />The most serious Met stage accident I know of was when Hildegard Behrens got walloped by a piece of collapsing Gibichung Hall in the Schenk Ring - and that was because a stage-hand timed the collapse wrong, before Behrens left the stage.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.com