Monday, June 28, 2004

If Only All Operas Were Like This

A modern production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio in Berlin is raising a ruckus. The revised opera, originally set in a Turkish palace, is set in a brothel and includes "prostitutes, full-frontal nudity, drugs and sadistic violence." One corporate sponsor of the opera house, DaimlerChrylser, is not amused. An adviser to the DC chairman said "[w]hen the prostitutes were massacred on stage I had to leave." Well, of course - why stick around once the T&A has been killed off?

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