The Deutsche Oper won’t do Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’
oout of Islamic terrorist fears. The opera has a scene featuring the severed heads of Jesus, Buddha and Muhammed.
And, it’s had that same scene for well over 200 years.
What next? Stop performing Shakespeare’s Othello? We don’t have Jewish terrorists rising up over “Idomeneo,” or The Bard’s “Merchant of Venice,” for that matter. Nor have Christians protested the “Idomeneo” scene.
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September 27, 2006
This is ridiculous — musical self-censorship over Islamic fears
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