LONDON (AP) \u2014 A performer holding a Palestinian flag touched off a brief scuffle on stage at the Royal Opera House in London as cast members were taking their bows following the season\u2019s final performance of \u201cIl Trovatore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Images posted on social media show what appears to be a member of the chorus holding the unfurled flag in front of his chest while the lead singers bask in the audience\u2019s applause on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
After a few moments, someone backstage tries to grab the flag, but the performer holds onto it and snaps back into place.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe display of the flag was an unauthorized action by the artist,\u201d the opera company said in a statement on Sunday. \u201cIt was not approved by the Royal Ballet and Opera and is a wholly inappropriate act.\u201d <\/p>\n
The opera company declined to comment when asked whether the performer would face any disciplinary action.<\/p>\n
\u201cIl Trovatore,\u201d which translates as \u201cThe Troubadour,\u201d is an 1853 opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. Director Adele Thomas\u2019 production reinterprets the story of desire and an all-consuming curse, the opera said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 A performer holding a Palestinian flag touched off a brief scuffle on stage at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,16925,393,77,4179,104845,4884,388,257,16928,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-278092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-classical-music","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-giuseppe-verdi","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-lifestyle","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-opera","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114887173538998012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278092","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=278092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}