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.

  • Sockenklaus
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    🤔

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      158 hours ago

      *unfazed

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

      • @[email protected]
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        28 hours ago

        Interesting, never knew.

        Here’s another one some people have never realized. Literally is not the same word as literately

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    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)

    • @[email protected]
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      74 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

  • @[email protected]
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    89 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)

  • LustyArgonianMana
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    1213 hours 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.

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      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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      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.

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

    • @[email protected]
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      3918 hours 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.

    • darkstar
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      “To me, a good dancer is someone who can urinate on cue”

      Wtf dude

    • @[email protected]
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      818 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      The person announcing that people needed medical care is the spokesperson for the play. Very obvious PR bait.

    • Carighan Maconar
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      3120 hours ago

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

      • Tiefling IRL
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        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

        • @[email protected]
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          Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not, but I’m being fully honest in my question. I kept up with what was being said, but I’m 99% sure that I’m missing the joke. I know it’s a faux pas, but can you explain the punchline to me?

          I’m guessing it has something to do with the ruling class being shittier than the average person, but I feel like I’m missing something.