Remember a couple of years ago that clip of a congressman having a stroke right in the middle of the interview? That was so disturbing. Never heard how he ended up.
There is a sort of macabre bootleg live recording of the Edvard Grieg A Minor Concerto from 1951 with Ormandy and the Philly at Carnegie Hall. The pianist was the legendary Simon Barere. Barere suffered a fatal stroke during this performance.
After the opening tympani roll and the thunderous cascade of chords down the keyboard during the intro you hear a loud clanging discord then a thud as Barere’s dead body hits the stage to screams from the audience.
Then of course there’s baritone Leonard Warren’s famous final exit at the end of his big aria in Verdi’s “Il Forza del Destino” onstage at the old Met........