The Phantom of the Opera Strikes Sicily!

Reporter Samara Gaspare here, live from the Massimo Bellini Opera House. Here, just a few hours ago, during the evening's final performance for Bellini's Norma, a stage lamp swung into the back canvas, and the ever helpful orchestra panicked and stampeded.

Dan Bonare, who was part of the audience during that fateful performance, was looking around, and his eyes were on the lamps when the "accident" occurred. "I saw everything," he comments. "The lamp just broke free, and swung on its cable into the back canvas. I was covered in glass, and I was blinded."

The lamp was examined, and nothing was found wrong. Nobody was in the control room during the performance, or was there? Did the phantom manage to sneak into the room and take control of the computer?

The motives of our phantom are mysterious. The Massimo Bellini had not upset anyone in its history, so why cause mass panic and pandemonium? It may be just a prank some kid just thought up, but some disagree. Jacques Orrene, a buff working at the opera house, says "It is doubtless a metaphor for Norma's own falling star." Still his companion, Strom Balos, argues "The lamp is a modernistic interpretation of the burning stake Norma was about to face." I say they're both bahookie and we should find out on our own.

Thankfully no one was hurt, despite the stampede. The opera house promises to have tighter security on their rooms and try to prevent another one of these "accidents."

This is Samara Gaspare here, signing out.

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