BBC Proms are hit by popcorn protests
NewsA number of people who attended Glyndeboourne’s Dialogues des Carmelites at the BBC Proms, have told us they were irritated, outraged or just plain put off by the sight and smell of popcorn being sold in the Royal Albert Hall.
The opera is a tale of martyrdom during the French Revolution.
Perhaps the hall should have supplied knitting needles.
Henrietta Foster writes: WTF is the Royal Albert Hall doing selling POPCORN during the Proms??? Involved in a near fight at one tonight. Ruined the first half of a superlative evening.
Here are some Twitter responses:
Dear @RoyalAlbertHall and @bbcproms, please, please, please stop selling POPCORN. It’s noisy, smelly, intrusive and completely inappropriate at a concert and it causes big fights in the audience, ruining the evening for all around. Not what you want in Dialogues des Carnélites.
— Jessica Duchen
(@jessicaduchen) August 7, 2023
Noticed popcorn at Dunedin/Bachx2/Mozart prom on Sunday as well as Carmelites. Echo comments about latecomers – change in @RoyalAlbertHall policy? Cinema now dreadful – person next to me had 12in pizza on shared armrest for Oppenheimer @CurzonCinemas – very unpleasant
— David Cairns (@DavidCairns46) August 8, 2023
@RichmoMusic possibly too hot a topic for BBC; Albert Hall selling popcorn during Proms screams “newsworthy discussion”?! Reading tweets today from patrons disturbed at last night’s Glyndbourne Carmelites by people crunching popcorn.
I’ll leave this here. Cheers— James Alexander #IAm European
(@jamesa0330) August 8, 2023
Absolutely this! I was amazed that @RoyalAlbertHall would think this appropriate at the Proms. Popcorn is a famously noisy snack and is bad enough at the cinema! https://t.co/FLlB7VbIp7
— Stephen Maddock (@stephenm68) August 8, 2023
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