Ticketlink, which handled advance sales, said Thursday the composer of classic film scores like “Mission” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” canceled the concert scheduled to take place at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in Sangam-dong, Seoul on Saturday due to “changed circumstances of the promoter.” Executives of the promoter Cion Communication are being questioned by Seodaemun police on suspicion of forging private documents.

Morricone, whose list of masterpieces also includes “Cinema Paradiso” and “Once Upon a Time in America,” was to have appeared with a 100-strong choir and his own Roma Sinfonietta orchestra as part of a world tour rounding off his career. But Cion never came up with the down payment. “The promoter tried to renegotiate the contract and attempted to postpone the concert, but apparently that did not work out, and they informed us quite late,” a Ticketlink spokesman said.

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