A singer who achieved a dream by taking the stage at Carnegie Hall, and then seemed to vanish without a trace, was not the victim of tragedy, but a comedy of errors and miscommunication, The Post has learned.
David Gleichman, 21, a baritone, performed the 1934 opera Merry Mount with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in May.
He exited the stage around 10:30 p.m. and didn’t make the bus out of town bright and early the next morning.
Fellow performers and group leaders, who hadn’t seen the 6-foot-2 handsome aspiring opera singer since the red-head’s performance the night before, feared the worst and filed a missing person’s report.
Some wondered if he was depressed, but nothing could have been further from the truth.
Like any normal 21-year-old with something to celebrate in the city that never sleeps, he went out for a night on the town.
The baritone’s cell phone battery couldn’t keep pace and died. He scrambled to find a way to get in touch with family and friends. Eventually, he did, and his parents gave him a lift, getting him safely home.