The opera lover who sparked a terrorism scare by scattering a friend’s ashes at New York’s Metropolitan Opera has apologized for his operatic gesture. Dallas resident Roger Kaiser said in a letter to the Met general manager, Peter Gelb, and “the entire Metropolitan Opera community” that he had promised a cancer-stricken friend in 2012 he would scatter his ashes at various opera houses. He said his “sweet gesture to a dying friend” went “completely and utterly wrong”. New York Met opera cancelled after person's ashes tipped into orchestra pit Read morePolice contacted Kaiser after learning his identity but he was not charged with a crime. Kaiser apologized for inadvertently creating a disturbance.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2016 00:22 UTC