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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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[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

why were we wasting medical resources on Germans?

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago

yinglet theatre B)>

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 0 points 6 hours ago

ofc its germany /lh

[-] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 20 hours ago

Man, Germany has all the cool shit.

[-] Imhotep@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

~~cool~~ fresh shit

action paintings with blood and fresh excrement

[-] DrFuggles@feddit.org 19 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

The lady in the bell is where I lost it. Art ("art"?) is fucking weird.

[-] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

🤔

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 24 points 23 hours ago

*unfazed

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

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Bitchin'...

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours 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)

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago
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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 149 points 1 day 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.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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!"

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago

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

[-] robdor@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 19 hours ago

Club Vandersex is back awwwww yissssss

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

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

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago

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 1 day ago

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.

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[-] Faresh@lemmy.ml 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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 19 hours 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

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

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

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours 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.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 1 day ago

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

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

It's a matter of habit.

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[-] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Why would you shove a toothpick under your toenail and kick the wall as hard as you can if you're a goddamn pussy

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] Korkki@lemmy.world 93 points 1 day ago
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[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

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 1 day ago

I don't see many details.

They probably saw ALL the details

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah it's probably natural to throw up after you smell the first 10 people's vomit :(

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[-] espentan@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago

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.

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[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Masamune@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

In New York City, this is just your average subway commute.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

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

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