A night to remember at the Opera, complete with a ghost
In the pitch-black auditorium of Rome's Teatro Costanzi, a high-pitched wail rose from the upper galleries. Dozens of torches lit up, their beams crossing wildly, searching for the source of the sound.The rays of light focused on a ghostly figure: a slender, dark-haired woman dressed in white, moving to a funereal rhythm and singing plaintively. In the audience, about 130 children, ages 8 to 10, let out screams, gasps and a "that's not real." Many shouted “Emma, Emma”.The children had just been told that the Costanzi, the capital's opera house, had a resident ghost. No, not that. It is said that this was the spirit of Emma Carelli, an Italian soprano who directed the theater a century ago, and she loved it so much that she was reluctant to leave it, also dead.“The theate...