意大利男高音里契特拉死于车祸

Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra has died from head and chest injuries suffered in a road accident.

意大利男高音赛尔瓦托·里契特拉在一场车祸中头部和胸部受伤而死。

Salvatore Licitra was seen by many as one of the greatest natural tenor talents of his generation
The 43-year-old - who was seen as the heir to Luciano Pavarotti in Italy - crashed his scooter（小轮摩托车） into a wall in southern Sicily last month.

He was not wearing a helmet when he crashed in the town of Modica.

The singer made his international breakthrough in 2002, when he stepped in for Pavarotti in Puccini's Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Licitra died on Monday morning in the hospital in Catania, where he had been flown after the accident on 27 August, a statement on the the Swiss-born singer's website said.

He had been in a coma（昏迷） since the crash and never regained consciousness.

Doctors at the hospital said Licitra's family had agreed to make his organs available for transplant.

They said that a news conference would be held later on Tuesday.