Blood on the stage, an emergency doctor in the audience: a few questions about the current spectacle at the Stuttgart State Opera
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Florentina Holzinger‘s opera performance Sancta caused a stir at the Stuttgart State Opera after reports of nausea and scandal began circulating. Still, there were no actual surrenders, just a few visitors who felt unwell. The production, which is about a nun who is walled up alive, includes drastic scenes, such as re-enacting a side wound. The performance sparked discussions about art, scandal and border crossings and even led to death threats against Holzinger and her team. Nevertheless, most visitors were enthusiastic and the performances were sold out.
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Florentina Holzinger’s Opera performance Saint experienced two performances at the Stuttgart State Opera the weekend before last and caused a tremendous stir. They whispered about a “sex opera”. Bild-newspaper, and the HE DOES commented Kafkaesque: “Been to the opera, vomited.” Both formulations, research suggests, miss reality. Has vomited in Stuttgart no one, neither in the audience nor on the stage. And in which works of opera literature – by Mozart Figaro to Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde – it’s not about “sex”, dear Bild-Feuilleton, not about love, vice, lust, carnal-spiritual desire and our larger-than-life, small-minded failure at it? That’s the beauty of it.
