Tenor Licitra dies at 43
By Anne Midgette
Updated, longer version (posted 3:04 pm):
The Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra, whose powerful voice and sunny personality landed him center stage on the opera houses of the world, died Monday morning in an Italian hospital, eight days after a Vespa accident in Sicily allegedly caused by a cerebral hemorrhage, according to reports in Italy’s Corriere della Sera and other newspapers. He was 43 years old.
Licitra had been lying in a coma since an emergency operation after the accident. According to remarks made in public by his brother Fabio Licitra over the weekend, the tenor was only moving the Vespa a few hundred yards down the street to another restaurant because there was no room at the first restaurant he tried.
Because he was going such a short distance, he was not wearing his helmet.
His fiancée, who was riding behind him on the Vespa, was unhurt.
According to the Corriere della Sera, after the tenor was declared clinically dead on Monday morning, his family had his organs donated.
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