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Eighteen treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing
(www.theguardian.com)
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Man, Germany has all the cool shit.
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.
🤔
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.
*unfazed
"fazed" means "disconcerted or perturbed", just FYI, and I will take my downvotes now
Interesting, never knew.
Here's another one some people have never realized. Literally is not the same word as literately
LOL! They even have penguins (nuns) on stage.
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)
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 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
Dafaq am I reading?
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.
Once one person gets sick it’s human instinct to follow up.
Maybe all the blood and shit
why would you sign up for something like this if you're a goddamn pussy
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.
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.
How are you supposed to know the priest is a lesbian if they didn't tell you?
How do you know if someone is a nun when they are all naked? 🤔
It's a matter of habit.
Maybe she makes an offhand comment about not being into guys
Maybe she drives a Subaru onstage
Her priest's frock was plaid flannel.
live sex ig
Nah, it's just a phase
Why would you shove a toothpick under your toenail and kick the wall as hard as you can if you're a goddamn pussy
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 😄
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.
Couldn't disagree more, that sounds hilarious 😄
"To me, a good dancer is someone who can urinate on cue"
Wtf dude
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Sounds like a Genitorturers concert!
Or a Crash Worship concert.
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.
The person announcing that people needed medical care is the spokesperson for the play. Very obvious PR bait.
I wish they weren't all sold out, I kinda want to see it now. It's working! 😂
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
"The Aristocrats!"
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.
That's terrible but also very useful to get out of uncomfortable situations
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People in Stuttgart are too sheltered. In Berlin that wouldn't stand out in an average Friday.
In New York City, this is just your average subway commute.
Going to the Opera on Saturday, but it probably won't be this much fun. Shame.
Sounds like a fun time.
Yeah, I'm sure that's accurate and complete information, and not just a shock horror show fishing for attention.
I guess there won't be a live-stream?
Sounds like there already was.
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