The Bolshoi, one of Russia’s finest theaters, added that the accident occurred during a change of scenery in the Sedko opera by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov..
“The show was immediately stopped, and the audience was asked to leave,” the theater said in comments carried by the Russian Interfax news agency“.
Investigators in Moscow said they were investigating the death of the 37-year-old artist. His identity has not been revealed.
Interfax quoted a source as saying that the artist died after a piece of decoration fell on him between two scenes. Sources told the Russian Information Agency and TASS news agency that the fall of a decorative piece was the cause of his death.
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