Was he driven by Sophocles' epic tale that inspired
Richard Strauss's
Elektra
?
While attending as a spectator the famous opera of the German composer (
Salome
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
), the young Austrian tenor Angelo Pollak suddenly realized that his neighbor, an elderly man, was seized with unease.
As lucid as he is reactive, he immediately alerted the emergency services who rushed to bring first aid to the victim.
When they arrived in time, they were able to save her.
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In the Austrian newspaper
Heute
which recounted this rare news item on its site, the young Austrian tenor gave more details on this story which had a happy ending: “
I saw that the person sitting next to me was slumped on his seat.
Her eyes were rolled back and she was panting.
I got up and ran to find a doctor or a rescuer.
I screamed, I guess, and I've never run so fast in my life.
Luckily, the sick man was immediately transported to the nearest hospital where the intensive care units quickly got him out of the woods.
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Angelo Pollak had come to support his companion, the Irish soprano Sinéad Campbell-Wallace at the Salzburg opera, who in Richard Strauss's opera performs ... the supervisor of Elektra.
An excerpt from
Elektra
by Richard Strauss with soprano Sinéad Campbell-Wallace