Sexually Explicit Opera Featuring Naked Roller Skating Nuns, Dwarf Pope, Blood, And Lesbians Leaves Audiences Horrified And Seeking Medical Attention
This all sounds over-exaggerated by tabloid DailyMail, so take it with a grain of salt as you giggle at the absurdity:
A radical feminist opera which includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, real blood and injuries, and naked roller-skating nuns, has left 18 audience members needing medical treatment in Austria.
Sancta Susanna by composer Paul Hindemith caused a scandal back in 1921, with outraged critics labelling the one-act opera, which tells the story of a suppressed nun discovering her sexuality, too blasphemous to be shown.
Its provocative scenes left theatregoers reeling, with 18 suffering with nausea and shock and requiring assistance over the first two performances. In three cases, a doctor even had to be called.
Extreme performance artist Florentina Holzinger is behind the astonishing adaptation, which sees its all-female cast playing nuns who strip off their habits throughout the ‘sensual, poetic and wild’ show.
The most bizarre scenes include an actress with dwarfism dressed as the Pope being raised up into the air and spun around by a robotic arm, while another performs Eminem songs dressed as Jesus.
LOL. More at the link, and here’s a trailer for the opera. Looks fun:
