Audience member who booed Black child actor banned from London’s Royal Opera House

The opera company and audience members said they were appalled by the incident.

An audience member at the Royal Opera House in London has been permanently banned after heckling a young Black actor during Tuesday night’s performance of Handel’s “Alcina.”

Malakai M. Bayoh was making his stage debut as Oberta in the production when a man in the audience “yelled ‘rubbish!’ and booed him, today!

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