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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.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 150 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago

The person announcing that people needed medical care is the spokesperson for the play. Very obvious PR bait.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wish they weren't all sold out, I kinda want to see it now. It's working! 😂

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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!"

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 84 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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 😄

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hindemith’s original opera tells the story of a young nun who, aroused by a tale told by one of the nunnery’s older women, steps on to the altar naked and rips the loincloth from Christ’s torso. An encounter with a large spider leads her to repent her action and beg the other nuns to wall her up alive.

Maybe the war on drugs wasn't so bad after all.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Couldn't disagree more, that sounds hilarious 😄

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

"To me, a good dancer is someone who can urinate on cue"

Wtf dude

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Very good splits Hazel, now shit on Julia's chest. I said give Julia a Cleveland Streamer!!!

[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 95 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)
[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago

Title goes in square brackets, link goes in parentheses

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[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

🤔

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.

[–] AJ1@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

*unfazed

"fazed" means "disconcerted or perturbed", just FYI, and I will take my downvotes now

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[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Man, Germany has all the cool shit.

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

~~cool~~ fresh shit

action paintings with blood and fresh excrement

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

unsimulated

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

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It looks like there were warnings in advance too

Visitors to the adults-only show were alerted in advance to a long list of warnings for potential triggers including incense, loud noises, explicit sexual acts and sexual violence.

FWIW, I'm a sideshow performer and have been in shows that were exactly like this (though I don't do full nudity or piercing). There's always a content warning at the top of the show. Though I'm surprised (but not) they allowed live sex. Even where I live, which has pretty lenient blue laws, live sex is a hard no.

Also, this sounds amazing

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.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (7 children)

How are you supposed to know the priest is a lesbian if they didn't tell you?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How do you know if someone is a nun when they are all naked? 🤔

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

It's a matter of habit.

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[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

If you've never seen copious amounts of blood before, you might not know you're a goddamn pussy. I didn't know blood would make me queasy until I was trying to clean glass and blood from the floor before my dogs ran in to see the commotion as the skin on the backs of 2 fingers was flapping and undoing all my blood cleanup. It damaged something in my nail base, too, because I have a scar that ends at a permanent ridge in my nail extrusion.

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[–] espentan@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A friend of mine has a condition that can easily cause him to pass out from seeing blood, or indeed picturing blood in his mind. I remember us listening to a guy talking about a surgery he had recently gone through, one that involved fixing an artery, et voila, my friend suddenly passed out.

My only point being that some people can be very sensitive, and my buddy would've no doubt spent a performance like this drifting in and out of consciousness.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's terrible but also very useful to get out of uncomfortable situations

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I have friends like this and with my lifestyle and history of emergency response, I can't fathom it. Apart from trained hygiene precautions, my brain just never reacts to blood apart from it being an indicator of the next actions to take to keep as much of it inside as possible. I've had a shower off a firetruck to get blood off—clothes ruined, still washing blood out of my hair once I got home—but training kept those two alive in time for paramedics to arrive. That's all my brain thought about. They found out and my buddy and I got a call from the hospital to meet them ♥️

But then I have another friend that gets queasy seeing a scratch and has passed out from a needle...

Some of us just have very different survival instincts. Fight or flight seem to both work very well so long as you're one of the other. But they certainly can't understand each other.

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[–] DrFuggles@feddit.org 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 33 points 5 days ago

Sounds like there already was.

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

Sounds like a fun time.

[–] TAYRN@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

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

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

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)

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 5 days ago

I don't see many details.

They probably saw ALL the details

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Once one person gets sick it’s human instinct to follow up.

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] brognak@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

I imagine it's probably something to do with the live piercing, which I assume to be hook pulls? Needle play really icks some people out, but I don't know if it would be visible from an opera stage

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How do I see or even find out about crazy shows like this?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, check with your local alternative community. You probably don’t have anything local, but where the body mod types, performance artists, and bdsm folks interact winds up with shit like thie

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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