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A fight at the opera

A fight at the opera

Classical music used to be a riot

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Tom Barrie
Oct 09, 2024
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When was the last time you saw someone throw a punch at the Last Night of the Proms? Or a concertgoer thrown screaming from the highest balcony of the Royal Albert Hall, into that thronging pit of bobbing Union Jacks? Have you ever witnessed one tuxedoed man pile-drive another through his picnic basket at Glyndebourne?1

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