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Another was Lawrence Tibbett, a star baritone at the Metropolitan Opera. In January 1931 he was rehearsing the part of Guido Franceschini in the opera “Caponsacchi,” using a stage dagger to threaten an attacker. By chance, he cut the hand of another performer, Joseph Sterzini, who died at a hospital, not from the wound but from a heart attack.
