The Catholic Herald: Explicit Anti-Catholic Opera Leaves 18 Audience Members Requiring Medical Assistance

The Catholic Herald, October 10, 2024 at 5:45 pm

A radical-feminist opera performance has left 18 audience members needing medical treatment for shock and nausea at the Stuttgart Opera in Germany.

Performed at one of Europe’s foremost opera houses, the Sancta Susanna (“Saint Susanna”) opera has an age restriction of 18 and includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, real blood and injuries, naked roller-skating nuns and much more, reports the Daily Mail (a warning: the Mail article contains images that some Herald readers may find offensive/upsetting – as does the trailer on the Stuttgart State Opera website).

The first two performances by its all-female cast were responsible for the 18 audience members who required assistance for shock and nausea, while in three of those cases, a doctor had to be called.

Written by composer Paul Hindemith in 1921, the opera tells the story of a “suppressed nun discovering her sexuality”. At the time, it was deemed too blasphemous to be shown and its premiere at the Stuttgart Opera was cancelled. …

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