Not scheduled at the premiere of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) which debuted this evening at La Scala.
During the second act, in fact, someone dropped a mobile phone from the stage and hit a spectator in the front row on the cheek.
I'll report you,' the man who was hit shouted.
And then at halftime he explained to the ushers that he would keep the smartphone until the owner arrived to report it.
In the meantime, the performance, in the historic staging by Giorgio Strehler conducted by Thomas Guggeis, continued with applause from the audience for almost every aria.
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