Estonian opera-goer spends night locked in toilet

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

TALLINN (AFP) — An 84-year-old music fan had no option but to spend a night at the Estonian National Opera after she ended up locked in a toilet, the prestigious Baltic venue said Thursday.

The woman decided to take a comfort break before leaving the building at the end of a three-and-a-half-hour Sunday afternoon performance of Rossini's comic opera "Cinderella", said Eero Raun, adviser to the venue's manager.

With no evening event scheduled, a staff member did the rounds of the building, turning out the lights and locking the toilets, apparently without checking if any of the cubicles were occupied.

The elderly former music teacher, whom Raun did not identify, was only discovered 20 hours later on Monday morning as staff prepared for that day's performance....