Posted on 12/01/2023 1:46:43 PM PST by Libloather
Climate activists angered opera fans at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, by standing up and screaming during an opening night performance of Tannhäuser, Thursday.
Radical climate group Extinction Rebellion, NYC, took credit for the protest on social media, and shared videos of the disruptions.
Halfway through the second act of the performance, several protesters stood up and demanded an end to fossil fuels. One man scolded the audience to "wake up" to the "climate emergency," before unfolding a black banner that said, "No opera on a dead planet."
"Wake up! The stream is polluted! The stream is tainted! The stream is poison! This is a climate emergency! This is a climate emergency. There will be no opera on a dead planet!" he shouted.
The first disruption was timed by the group to coincide with a character's line in the opera, Extinction Rebellion said.
"The disruption was timed to coincide with the main character’s declaration that ‘love is a spring to be drunk from,’ and highlighted the fact that, contrary to those words spoken on stage, springs are not pure now, because we are in a climate crisis, and our water is contaminated," the group said in a statement.
As the protesters were ushered out by security, audience members booed and jeered at the activists. The performance was stopped again, when another activist with Extinction Rebellion stood up and shouted a similar message.
Angry audience members demanded the woman leave, shouting "Shut up!" "Get out of here!" "Go outside!" "This isn't the place!" One person can be seen yanking the protester's scarf.
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Almost Hard Hat time.
Does this make Tannhäuser a Christmas Opera?
The Entry of the Not-So-Welcome Guests. :-)
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Die Hard is returning to theaters just in time for the annual debate over whether the Bruce Willis classic is a Christmas movie
At the end, when even the Pope refuses to grant him absolution for hanging out with the Venusberg and he resists the temptation to rejoin them, he dies. I would have told him, "Go back to the Venusberg! At least they appreciate you."
Great way to win people over to your cause. Keep it up.
(sigh) They keep doing things like that.
New York city.
Living what they support.
Lol
Many Romanovs work red roses in support of the Bolsheviks, their future executioners.
If they interrupted the Pilgrim’s Chorus I would have beat them myself.
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