The National Ballet of Japan is in the UK this week at the Royal Opera House in London, the first time in over 15 years that a major Asian dance company has appeared on the venue’s main stage.

House Republicans have advanced a proposal to rename the Kennedy Center's Opera House, one of the center's major theaters, the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.”

Republican members of the Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to a spending bill that would rename the venue after the first lady.

Viral videos showed the man in the suit, said to be director of opera Oliver Mears, yank at the flag with one hand after a performer identified by the Telegraph as Daniel Perry unfurled it, presumably in support of Palestinians as Israeli attacks continue on Gaza. But Perry was able to yank it back fully.