A tragic opera, two costume slipsSourced
The opera was a tragedy.
His costume dropped twice.
During a 1935 performance of Rigoletto at Boston Opera House, singer Ettore Verna's lower costume fell to his ankles. Billboard's review joked that the mishap happened not once, but twice.
The singing carried on;
the costume did not.
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