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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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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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[-] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days ago

*unfazed

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

[-] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Interesting, never knew.

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

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

How about littorally?

[-] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 6 days ago

Man, Germany has all the cool shit.

[-] Imhotep@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

~~cool~~ fresh shit

action paintings with blood and fresh excrement

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

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

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

It's a matter of habit.

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[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 9 points 6 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.

[-] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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

[-] DrFuggles@feddit.org 20 points 6 days 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 5 days ago

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

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Dafaq am I reading?

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Rage bait

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days 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 6 days ago

I don't see many details.

They probably saw ALL the details

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

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

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Maybe all the blood and shit

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

There was shit??

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 6 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)

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

unsimulated

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

[-] Faresh@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 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

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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 6 days ago

Cincinnati?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Actually yes, probably

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Look into regional burns.

[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Sounds like a Genitorturers concert!

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Or a Crash Worship concert.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Bitchin'...

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