Eventually rescued, he died on the way to the hospital. Although other members of the show eventually forced the animals back into an inner cage they dragged Macarte with them. Attacked by the lions, he attempted to fight them off with his sword and a pistol loaded with blanks but they overcame him. 1872: Lion tamer Thomas Macarte, known as Massarti the Lion Tamer, who had previously lost an arm when attacked by one of the lions, entered the lion's cage for a performance with a travelling menagerie in Bolton market on 3 January. The volunteer from the audience was given the gun and a bullet to load onstage the bullet was a blank, but unbeknownst to Buck, the audience member inserted some nails into the gun barrel. 1840: Magician Arnold Buck was killed while performing the " bullet catch" trick.He had successfully leapt into High Falls one week previously. 1829: Sam Patch, an American daredevil, died in Rochester, New York, during a jump into the High Falls of the Genesee River.One of the six gunmen mistakenly loaded his rifle with a live bullet. 1820: Madame Delinsky, the female half of a magic act, was accidentally shot and killed while performing the " bullet catch" trick.He died of 'ossification of the heart' ( aortic stenosis) on 20 June having uttered his final words from the play "May such befall me at my latest hour. Cummins died on stage while playing the part of Dumont in The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe, at the Leeds Theatre in Hunslet. The superstition that green brings bad luck to actors is said to originate from the colour of the clothing he was wearing at the time of his death. However, he did not die on stage-as he was able to finish the play-but died a few minutes later at his home. 1673: Molière, the French actor and playwright, who suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, died after being seized by a violent coughing fit while playing the title role in his play Le Malade imaginaire ( The Imaginary Invalid).Theater officials closed the curtains in the moments following the accident and called off the show shortly after, Russia's state-backed news network RT reported.įorensics experts were dispatched to the theater and the Russian Investigative Committee said it was looking into the accident, the network said. The Bolshoi cancelled a performance of Sadko on Sunday. The accident occurred during a performance of Sadko, an opera by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, multiple outlets reported. "The time and place of parting will be announced later."Īccording to the BBC, video shows Kulesh being crushed by a piece of the set during a scene change, as his fellow performers frantically waved their arms to get the crew to lift the structure off the actor. "We express our deep condolences to family and friends," the theater said in a statement translated from Russian. The man was identified as 38-year-old Evgenia Sergeevich Kulesh. A performer was killed Saturday during a performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, pictured here in a May 2020 photo.Īn actor performing at Moscow's famous Bolshoi Theatre was killed in an accident on Saturday, the venue announced on social media.
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