{"id":277384,"date":"2025-07-20T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277384\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:56:12","slug":"cast-member-displays-palestinian-flag-at-end-of-royal-opera-house-performance-royal-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277384\/","title":{"rendered":"Cast member displays Palestinian flag at end of Royal Opera House performance | Royal Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">A Palestinian flag was unfolded on stage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/royal-opera-house\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Opera House<\/a> in London by a cast member on Saturday night during a curtain call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The incident is said to have taken place during the encore of Il Trovatore, with attempts made to remove the flag allegedly being resisted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cAt the Royal Opera House, one of the cast unfurled a Palestinian flag at the encore. Someone from the opera house\/company then came on stage from the wings to try to remove the flag from the cast member who wrestled it back and refused to give it up during Il Trovatore,\u201d a member of the audience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/07\/19\/palestine-flag-raised-during-royal-opera-house-show\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Another operagoer posted on X on Saturday: \u201cExtraordinary scenes at the Royal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/opera\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opera<\/a> House tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cDuring the curtain call for Il Trovatore one of the background artists came on stage waving a Palestine flag. Just stood there, no bowing or shouting. Someone off stage kept trying to take it off him. Incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Another post on X from Stephen Ratcliffe, who was also watching the production, added: \u201cControversy at end of Trovatore @rbo_org tonight when an extra\/chorus member unfurled a Palestinian flag. Off stage manager tried to grapple with him but he held his ground. Bet he won\u2019t be working there again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">A spokesperson for the Royal Ballet and Opera said: \u201cThe display of the flag was an unauthorised action by the artist. It was not approved by the Royal Ballet and Opera and is a wholly inappropriate act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Palestinian flag was unfolded on stage at the Royal Opera House in London by a cast member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-277384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114885675181451237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}