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Performer burned in opera fire-breathing stunt recovering in hospital

(MCT) — CHICAGO — Having trained in theater and circus skills at Roosevelt University, Wesley Daniel is known as a jack-of-all-trades type among his theater community colleagues. One role may require you to wear a dress and lift the leading man in the air. One role may require you to play a soldier and execute tricky fight choreography.

And one may require you, newly cast in a Lyric Opera production, to walk on stilts and to spit fire.

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