The opera performance ‘Sancta’ by the Austrian Florentina Holzinger caused a stir in Stuttgart. The performance upset 18 spectators, and three even had to receive medical attention.
Despite the age rating from 18 years and warnings about the explicit content, some visitors complained of nausea. In three cases a doctor even had to be called in.
Real blood, wounds, sexual acts
Florentina Holzinger’s special work combines revealing images, lesbian love scenes and criticism of religious rituals. Sexual acts take place on stage. Real blood and fake blood, piercing processes and the infliction of a wound can also be seen. The performance uses strobe effects, volume and incense.
So far there have been two performances in Stuttgart.
Despite the radical content, the premiere was celebrated and the opera plans to continue with the five remaining performances as planned. The house recommends the performance to audiences who are “daringly looking for new theater experiences.”
“Radical and sensual”
They also promise: “There has certainly never been an evening like this at the Stuttgart Opera House – radical and sensual, poetic and wild.”
Tickets are no longer available. The two performances in Berlin are also completely sold out.
Paul Hindemith’s short opera was to premiere at the Stuttgart Opera House in 1921, but they withdrew shortly before the premiere due to the impending scandal. More than a hundred years later, Sancta Susanna takes the stage for the first time in Stuttgart. Hindemith’s opera shows female desire in an environment hostile to pleasure and the body: the young nun Susanna discovers her sexuality and pulls down Christ’s loincloth from the crucifix – scandalous…
Source: Krone
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