Sydney audiences are by and large generous in their applause even if they don’t approve of the performer or the production. ‘Boos’ are rarely, if ever heard, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, when the villian of the piece takes his curtain call. The most emphatic expression of audience disapproval is to leave at interval. Other ‘houses’ are different. A new production of Fidelio proved controversial as Antony Craig reports in Gramophone.
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/the-gramophone-blog/is-it-ever-right-to-boo-a-performance
