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German staging of Verdi's A Masked Ball on 9/11 with naked cast in Mickey Mouse masks.
The Telegraph ^ | 11/04/2008 | Harry de Quetteville

Posted on 04/12/2008 6:11:45 AM PDT by Leisler

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To: Brett66
It features naked pensioners and Mickey Mouse masks, Hitler salutes and Elvis impersonators

Not nearly as provocative, I'm sure, as people think. No one will be able to recognize a breast, v_ or p_ from the wrinkles anyway.

21 posted on 04/12/2008 7:40:39 AM PDT by E. Cartman (Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.)
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To: Brett66
So it's a dem convention?

Either that or a typical day in San Fransicko.

22 posted on 04/12/2008 7:55:16 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Dahoser
That's a travesty of opera, not opera. Unfortunately, there's a school of opera perverts who try to shock the audience. This doesn't go far in the U.S. where the opera companies aren't subsidized by the government. Kresnik isn't worthy enough to polish Rudolph Bing's shoes.
23 posted on 04/12/2008 8:04:55 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
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To: Leisler

staged in the ruins of New York’s World Trade Centre

Am I reading this correctly? Do they plan to do this at Ground Zero? No, no, no,no,no. DO NOT let them desecrate this holy site. Someone tell me if this is true and if I am reading it correctly. I would be down there myself protesting and NOT letting them in there. To do something so vile at such a sacred venue is abominable. I must have misunderstood. I HOPE I misunderstood.

As for the dip heads that are naked...my GOD...please...go put your clothes on. MOST people need to keep their clothes on anyway. When you undress there is no one there to air brush out the fat, the wrinkles, the big guts and the b loging tummies and butts not to mention the sharpei look. Let’s face it...people look BETTER with clothes on.


24 posted on 04/12/2008 8:42:23 AM PDT by cubreporter
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staged in the ruins of New York’s World Trade Centre

Am I reading this correctly? Do they plan to do this at Ground Zero? No, no, no,no,no. DO NOT let them desecrate this holy site. Someone tell me if this is true and if I am reading it correctly. I would be down there myself protesting and NOT letting them in there. To do something so vile at such a sacred venue is abominable. I must have misunderstood. I HOPE I misunderstood.

As for the dip heads that are naked...my GOD...please...go put your clothes on. MOST people need to keep their clothes on anyway. When you undress there is no one there to air brush out the fat, the wrinkles, the big guts and the b loging tummies and butts not to mention the sharpei look. Let’s face it...people look BETTER with clothes on.


25 posted on 04/12/2008 8:42:44 AM PDT by cubreporter
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To: ridesthemiles

Actually they do let some of it slide. The Disneyland Memorial Orgy has been published a number of times (in The Realist, The BEST of the Realist, and an article about the controversy) as well as a counterfit blacklight poster in the 1960s that DID cause some sort of legal processeedings (but those responsible for the work, primarily Wally Wood but also the publisher Paul Krassner, were not the ones behind the commercial poster).

As a bit of “commentary” it was permitted to stand.


26 posted on 04/12/2008 8:52:22 AM PDT by weegee (Religion is the opiate of the masses MARX1843 They get bitter, they cling to...religion OBAMA2008)
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To: E. Cartman
Speaking of wrinkles...

This is what Bela Pelosi will look like if she gets her face lifted again. She'll have a lil' mustache...

27 posted on 04/12/2008 8:54:35 AM PDT by weegee (Religion is the opiate of the masses MARX1843 They get bitter, they cling to...religion OBAMA2008)
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To: Leisler

There are a heck of a lot more opera fans than you see at the opera, though. People would go hear Mozart, Verdi, Bach, etc. But they will not go to see those wonderful composers bastardized by the producer’s impoverished and debauched ‘vision.’


28 posted on 04/12/2008 9:26:49 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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This is what Bela Pelosi will look like if she gets her face lifted again. She'll have a lil' mustache...

...and will need a gynecologist to clean her teeth.

29 posted on 04/12/2008 9:33:14 AM PDT by E. Cartman (Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.)
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...and will need a gynecologist to clean her teeth.

One more after that, and she'll have a unibrow, and need the gyo to treat a sinus infection. OTOH, her mouth will be pretty much the same.

30 posted on 04/12/2008 9:37:24 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Leisler

Fom what I understand this type of crap is standard fare across Europe. One of the reasons directors get away with this are Opera Houses are heavily subsidized by the government. You keep on getting government checks even if you alienate most of your audience.
Sort of explains why Andre Rieu never has trouble getting an audience for his concerts. He actually plays classical music, along with some fun pop stuff, people want to hear and he wants the audience to have a good time. I have never heard him make a political statment in any of his concerts that are on TV.


31 posted on 04/12/2008 8:40:17 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: Leisler

Looks like they just don’t learn.


32 posted on 04/14/2008 9:16:56 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Bunnies=Sodomites)
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