By Shirley Farmer 
DEighteen people left the Stuttgart Opera House for medical treatment due to severe nausea. The play included explicit sexual scenes and large amounts of fake and real blood.
“On Saturday we had eight people and on Sunday 10 people who had to be helped by our visiting service,” said opera spokesman Sebastian Ebling, regarding the two productions of Sancta, a work by Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger. He added that in three cases, a doctor was called to receive treatment.
After Holzinger brought the Sancta to his hometown of Vienna in June, the bishops of Salzburg and Innsbruck criticized it, saying it was a “disrespectful caricature of the Holy Mass.”
Neither criticism nor nausea left viewers less interested in the play, as the Stuttgart State Opera kept the remaining five performances on stage. Furthermore, the artist will also take the piece to Berlin, having scheduled two shows at the Volksbühne, in Berlin, in November, with all tickets already sold out.
Hindemith's original opera tells the story of a young nun who, excited by a story told by one of the older women in the convent, climbs to the altar naked and tears the apron off Christ's torso. An encounter with a large spider causes her to regret her action and ask the other nuns to surround her.
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