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1896 Lohengrin

Theatre National de L'Opera programme for Wagner's opera Lohengrin on Monday 8th June 1896 ~ featuring Rose Carron [1857 - 1930] as Elsa and Ernest van Dyck [1861 - 1923] as Lohengrin.

 

Two weeks before this performance, on May 20th, one of the counterweights for the grand chandelier fell into the auditorium killing a member of the audience.

 

This incident inspired one of the more famous scenes in Gaston Leroux's classic 1910 gothic novel The Phantom of the Opera.

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Uploaded on December 1, 2010
Taken on June 8, 1896