Tenor Salvatore Licitra Dead: News Reports [Updated ]

Posted on September 5, 2011 by lmharnisch

Salvatore Licitra, "I Pagliacci"

Photo: Salvatore Licitra in “I Pagliacci.” Credit: SalvatoreLicitra.com

Italian news sources are reporting that tenor Salvatore Licitra has died a little more than a week after suffering head and chest injuries in a Vespa crash. Doctors say that he suffered cerebral hemorrhage that caused him to lose control of the scooter.

There is no official confirmation on his website. News reports say that his family donated his organs.

[Updated at 12:44 p.m. Salvatore Licitra’s website has confirmed that he died of his injuries. A news conference is scheduled for Sept. 6, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. [1:30 a.m. PDT] at the Sala Dusmet at Garibaldi Hospital in Catania, Italy.]

Licitra’s brother accepted an award in his behalf at Saturday’s Premio Ragusani nel Mondo and urged people to wear helmets when riding motorcycles.

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2 Responses to Tenor Salvatore Licitra Dead: News Reports [Updated ]

  1. jaded's avatar jaded says:
    September 8, 2011 at 9:27 am

    A grammar quibble, perhaps an oversight rather than an actual mistake….you write that an incident caused the tenor to “loose” control of his Vespa. The verb is “lose,” of course. “Loose” is the adjective describing something not tight or fixed. (Or promiscuous.)

    I see this error all the time, and it really makes me nuts.

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