{"id":13828,"date":"2024-06-24T22:46:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=13828"},"modified":"2024-06-24T22:46:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T22:46:19","slug":"barrister-banned-practicing-physical-altercation-covent-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/06\/24\/barrister-banned-practicing-physical-altercation-covent-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrister Banned From Practicing After Physical Altercation At Covent Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13829\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Covent-Garden-royal-opera-house.jpg\" alt=\"Covent Garden\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Covent-Garden-royal-opera-house.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Covent-Garden-royal-opera-house-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Covent-Garden-royal-opera-house-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Covent-Garden-royal-opera-house-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Covent Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The barrister Matthew Feargrieve has been given a 12-month ban from practicing law after punching the fashion designer Ulrich Engler before a Wagner opera at Covent Garden in 2019. The two were reportedly disputing an empty front-row seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The DL:<\/strong> The barrister Matthew Feargrieve has been given a 12-month ban from practicing law following his physical altercation with the fashion designer Ulrich Engler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/dec\/16\/lawyer-repeatedly-punched-royal-opera-house-seat-dispute-court\">during a dispute during a 2019 performance<\/a> of Wagner\u2019s Ring Cycle at London\u2019s Covent Garden. Feargrieve reportedly \u201clost his temper\u201d when Engler moved from his seat in Row B to an empty seat next to Feargrieve\u2019s wife in Row A, on which she\u2019d placed her coat shortly before the performance began. The lawyer was convicted of assault following the incident in 2019 and has now also been fined for his actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait, what?:<\/strong> We know it\u2019s a shocking tale. But historically speaking, the pandaemonium conjured by engaging with the works of Richard Wagner is not without precedent. As Alex Ross reminds us in his book <a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374285937\/wagnerism\">Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music<\/a>, released the year following the Feargrieve-Engler altercation, Wagner\u2019s musical works and ideas are always implicated in an ideology of hate.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s leave all that aside when we come to the opera, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The barrister Matthew Feargrieve has been given a 12-month ban from practicing law after punching the fashion designer Ulrich Engler before a Wagner opera at Covent Garden in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":13829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3,80],"tags":[441],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Covent-Garden-royal-opera-house.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13830,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828\/revisions\/13830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}