The version that unsettled audience members in Stuttgart this year supplanted the original musical performance with naked nuns rollerskating on a movable half-pipe at the centre of the stage, a wall of crucified naked bodies and a lesbian priest saying mass.

Lmao, that’s great. I almost suspect the cases of severe nausea to be press baiting, it’s just a little too good.

Good technique in dance to me is not just someone who can do a perfect tendu, but also someone who can urinate on cue,” Holzinger told the Guardian in an interview earlier this year.

Just your average choreographer 😄

"The Aristocrats!"

🤔

I heard a short interview with the opera houses intendant (if I recall correctly) and he was pretty ~~unphased~~ unfazed by this story. He said that it was not uncommon that a few of the 1400 guests of the opera house get nauseous during a show especially on hot days when air gets stale...

Sounded like he wasn't convinced the nausea during the Santa performance was because of the play itself.

Man, Germany has all the cool shit.

unsimulated

seems like an unnecessarily extra word. you could just say 'included live piercing, sexual intercourse and blah blah..

why would you sign up for something like this if you're a goddamn pussy

People in Stuttgart are too sheltered. In Berlin that wouldn't stand out in an average Friday.

https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buehne/theaterberichte/mecklenburg_vorpommern/Sancta-Oper-in-Schwerin-Spiel-mit-katholischen-Symbolen,sancta102.html

look at this if you wanna know what the opera looks like. The fascinating thing to me is that they apparently put on several shows in Schwerin (predominantly protestsnt town in northern Germany) without much fuss.

Going to the Opera on Saturday, but it probably won't be this much fun. Shame.

Dafaq am I reading?

I guess there won't be a live-stream?

Is opera not about the maximal? I think such things absolutely require content warnings, but also that sounds like the sort of show I’d attend (and know people who’d perform in)

I saw something like this at a goth Burlesque in the PNW, with a cheek piercing. I'm not sure what caused so many people in this performance to feel ill though, I don't see many details.

Yeah, I'm sure that's accurate and complete information, and not just a shock horror show fishing for attention.

Sounds like a fun time.

Nett hier

and copious amounts of fake and real blood

Where did they use the real blood? I thought theaters avoid it because it's really hard to clean and it coagulates after being exposed to air for a while. (though fake blood is also really expensive from what I've heard)

I guess Germans read about the fate of the Eldar & birth of Slaanesh and took that as an instruction guide.

Sounds like a Genitorturers concert!

LOL! They even have penguins (nuns) on stage.

Now I'd like a similar opera centered around Mohammed to compare the reactions.