Nude rape scene booed by Royal Opera House audience

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33324759

Nude rape scene booed by Royal Opera House audience

The opening night of William Tell at the Royal Opera House has been marked by boos over a rape scene with nudity.

The Opera House issued a statement after the performance of Guillaume Tell apologising for any distress caused.

Director of opera Kasper Holten said: "The production intends to make it an uncomfortable scene, just as there are several upsetting and violent scenes in Rossini's score.
"We are sorry if some people have found this distressing."

Holten said the scene "puts the spotlight on the brutal reality of women being abused during war time, and sexual violence being a tragic fact of war."

Rossini's opera of the Swiss patriot, William Tell, who shoots an arrow that splits an apple atop his son's head, has been directed by Damiano Michieletto and stars Canadian baritone Gerald Finley as Tell and American tenor John Osborn.
Osborn told Reuters after the performance that the scene "maybe it went a little longer than it should have".

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[devogue]

Fucking idiots.

[tuco]

I guess the theatre forgot to put trigger warnings on those leaflets they hand out before the show

"Heads should roll" .. fellow human being *coughs*

[Brian Peacock]

Opera has become an expensive playthong for directors who are looking to make a name for themselves. Nobody ever reviews the performances or the band anymore - just 'the production'.

[tuco]

What is interesting is reaction of the audience:

...scene provoked "the noisiest and most sustained booing I can ever recall during any performance at this address".

Mark Valencia writing for What's on Stage pointed out that first night booing is "a fast-growing problem at Covent Garden" that doesn't happen at other opera houses.
"It's become standard practice for the director of practically every new production to be jeered by practised factions in the audience who object to ideas that go beyond the literal reading of an opera," he said.

[JimC]

Opera has become an expensive playthong for directors who are looking to make a name for themselves. Nobody ever reviews the performances or the band anymore - just 'the production'.

Playthongs, eh...

Sounds kinda sexy...

[tuco]

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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35500871

no booing here.

[pErvinalia]

Holy fuck!

[Forty Two]

Next thing you know they'll be booing the rape scenes in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.



He watches her on a hidden camera, invading her privacy, and then he enters her room under false pretenses disguised as Brad. He then forces himself upon her without getting affirmative consent. Then he does the same thing to Brad.

Boooo!!!!

and, to think...people LAUGH at the Rocky Horror Picture, making light for decades.... can you believe it?

[klr]

Hmmmm ... how would they handle the eye-gouging scene in King Lear then?

[Forty Two]

They'll be coming after Revenge of the Nerds next. Remember, the nerds broke into the sorority house and invaded the privacy of the sorority girls, seeing them naked and taking their underwear. Then, at the end of the movie, one of the nerds disguises himself and has sex with the cheerleader without her knowing it was him. RAPE!!!

These things need to be banned. Now.

Think of what they do to people's attitudes toward women.....