{"id":278894,"date":"2025-07-21T02:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278894\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:51:15","slug":"pro-palestinian-protest-prompts-onstage-scuffle-at-royal-opera-house-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278894\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protest prompts onstage scuffle at Royal Opera House in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONDON &#8212; 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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After a few moments, someone backstage tries to grab the flag, but the performer holds onto it and snaps back into place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The opera company declined to comment when asked whether the performer would face any disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">\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 &#8212; A performer holding a Palestinian flag touched off a brief scuffle on stage at the Royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[105056,3907,748,16925,393,77,4179,4884,388,257,16928,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-278894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-105056","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-classical-music","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-lifestyle","17":"tag-london","18":"tag-opera","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114888958723723997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278894","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=278894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}