High passion, shrill voices and hints of violence are expected during a night at the opera, but usually only on stage.
However, they were also on display among the audience at the Royal Albert Hall this week as Proms ticketholders clashed volubly over popcorn.
While the singers in a production of Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmélites prepared to act out the beheading of 16 nuns on Monday night, a portion of the audience became distracted by an altercation over noisy snacks.
A man described as resembling “a posh Jean Paul Gaultier” began kicking the seat in front of him and made aggressive remarks in one of several popcorn-related incidents this Proms season.
Although the hall’s bars have been selling popcorn during the Proms since
