Slayer's Solo

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The little flutist wasn’t satisfied to murder the lovely soprano’s glorious duet—he wanted to murder the entire opera!

To MURDER an entire orchestra. including the conductor and the soloist, would be an ambitious undertaking but Eneas Marques Porto very nearly did it. And to finish off the job, he murdered the opera as well!

It happened in Rio de Janeiro in 1934. Porto, a flutist with the Joao Caetano Theatre, was a dumpy little man with a jaw like a bulldog’s. In his heart, however, burned the conviction that he was the greatest flutist in the entire world—in addition to being the greatest mind and the greatest lover. And so when the lovely soprano, Ada Calucci, refused his love, Porto was very angry.

“If you don’t stop annoying me,” Ada had said, “I’ll tell the conductor and get you fired!”

Seething, Porto headed for the stage door. In the wings he met Paolo Antonio, the conductor. “Paolo,” he cried, “what do you think?” And he related what the soprano had said to him.

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