The man who disposed of his friend’s remains and cancelled an opera has penned a letter to those affected.

In a follow up to the story Limelight ran earlier this week, the man who brought the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Guillaume Tell to a halt when he scattered the ashes of deceased friend has written a letter of apology. Roger Kaiser inadvertently caused a terrorism scare when he was seen scattering an unidentified white powder in the Met’s orchestra pit during the second interval of a matinee performance of Guillaume Tell. The performance was cancelled, as was the evening performance of L’Italiana in Algeri. In a letter emailed to Met officials and published by the New York Times, Kaiser apologises to the companies General Manager Peter Gelb and “the entire Metropolitan Opera community”.

Kaiser wrote about his love of opera and his relationship with his friend Terry Turner, who was his mentor in the artform and whose ashes he was scattering. “Opera is so much more than just something I enjoy. I LOVE IT,” Kaiser wrote. “I have no real musical knowledge or training. Just a pretty good ear and a whole lot...