Police initially said one person at the opera house requested medical attention. We hope that they will not bring their ashes with them.” Met General Manager Peter Gelb said, “We appreciate opera lovers coming to the Met. Miller said the disposal of ashes at an opera house may violate city codes but, “I don’t believe at this point that we see any criminal intent here.” Police know who the man is and are reaching out to him, Miller said, adding that the man does not live in New York. He said the powder will be tested, but the possibility that it was in fact human ashes “is certainly an area that we are pursuing.”
Miller said the man was in front of the first row of seats when he sprinkled the powder into the orchestra pit during the second intermission when most of the musicians were not present. John Miller, the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner in charge of intelligence and counterterrorism, said several audience members said a man told them he was there to sprinkle the ashes of a friend, his mentor in the opera. The freakish incident during a Saturday afternoon performance of Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” forced Met officials to cancel the rest of the show as well as an evening performance of a second opera. In consultation with the Met, they decided not to press charges.NEW YORK-A powdery substance a man sprinkled into the orchestra pit at New York’s Metropolitan Opera may have been an opera lover’s ashes, police say. Police investigators … determined that the powdery substance did not pose a threat.
Kaiser sprinkle a white powdery substance during the second intermission at Saturday’s matinee of Rossini’s ‘Guillaume Tell.’ Amid fears that the powder could have been a dangerous substance such as anthrax, the remainder of the opera was canceled and the evening performance of Rossini’s ‘L’Italiana in Algeri’ … was canceled as well.
Kaiser … called his act ‘a sweet gesture … that went completely and utterly wrong in ways that I could never have imagined.’ … Several musicians had reported seeing Mr.
He said he had come up with the ash-scattering idea in 2012 when his friend … was dying of cancer…. The man, Roger Kaiser, “wrote about his love of opera and his devotion to the friend who taught him about it. “The Dallas opera lover who scattered a friend’s ashes in the orchestra pit at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday-causing a terrorism scare, and forcing the Met to cut one performance short and cancel another-apologized Wednesday in a letter emailed to Met officials,” writes Michael Cooper in Wednesday’s (11/2) New York Times.
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