They timed their near-hysterical exit to coincide with one character’s words about “love is a fountain to drink from.” In footage that has surfaced on social media, an elderly man is first seen shouting from a box for people to “wake up”.
“The spring is defiled, the spring is tainted! The spring is poisoned! This is a climate emergency! This is a climate crisis!” shouted a man who lowered a banner from the box reading: “There will be no opera on a dead planet!”
The organizers had to interrupt the performance and brought out the extremist to the applause of the audience. However, after the performance resumed, one woman in the audience began to behave similarly. She was pushed out of the hall by the indignant spectators who were sitting next to her. At the same time, harsher expressions such as “shut up”, “go home” or “go to pr…” were addressed to those disrupting the performance.
To the event according to the diary The New York Times declared Extinction Rebellion, an international movement fighting climate change through civil disobedience and resistance.
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