Unsafe Mozart opera called back
High culture aficionados in Berlin have cancelled four planned performances of a Mozart opera amid growing concern that they might otherwise be blown to bits by Islamic terrorists. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, well known for his outspoken and highly provocative anti-Islamic statements ever since the 9/11 attacks, could not be immediately reached for comment about the recall as he is currently in hiding and his been for well over two hundred years. There’s a fatwah out on him or something.
It appears that there is a scene in his opera in which King Idomeneo, after which the piece is named, enters the stage carrying the severed heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad and many believe that that’s just one head too many (I don’t know what Poseidon is doing there, either).
The cowering culture créateurs will now replace the piece with the less inflammatory “La Traviata” and “The Marriage of Figaro”. Whether the timely recall of this piece will actually bring peace is not yet clear, but should any of you Islamic terrorists out there also find these despicable abominations of Western culture to be offensive, please feel free to call the Deutsche Oper management using their toll-free number 1-800-roll-over-and-die, day or night, and they will gladly consider calling them back, too.
It appears that there is a scene in his opera in which King Idomeneo, after which the piece is named, enters the stage carrying the severed heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad and many believe that that’s just one head too many (I don’t know what Poseidon is doing there, either).
The cowering culture créateurs will now replace the piece with the less inflammatory “La Traviata” and “The Marriage of Figaro”. Whether the timely recall of this piece will actually bring peace is not yet clear, but should any of you Islamic terrorists out there also find these despicable abominations of Western culture to be offensive, please feel free to call the Deutsche Oper management using their toll-free number 1-800-roll-over-and-die, day or night, and they will gladly consider calling them back, too.
Rock me Amadeus.
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PS: Thanks for the interesting link, Arwen. And thanks for the outrage link, too, Zyme.
PPS: Let's get this show back on the road already (thanks Muhaha)!
-> http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,439212,00.html (Comment this)
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,439592,00.html (Comment this)