Florentina Holzinger’s bloody Sancta was criticised by Austrian bishops and is now a sellout in Germany

Eighteen theatregoers at Stuttgart’s state opera required medical treatment for severe nausea over the weekend after watching a performance that included live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse and copious amounts of fake and real blood.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    150·
    1 month ago

    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.

      • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        If you’re ever in NYC just go to The Box. You’ll see the same exact shit, literally.

        Though expect to pay $2000 for tickets at 1am on a Wednesday night because the venue solely exists to milk rich people

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      “Ok Morty, fuck it, I’m doing an opera. It’s gonna have… uh… naked ladies, a lot of fake blood (some real blood), piercings, nuns getting shwifty, and a FUCKING HALF PIIIII- *belch* -IIIIPE!”