Berlin police protect Mozart opera

[UndertheOcean]

Patrons of Berlin's Deutsche Opera were greeted by metal detectors, police and the media on Monday at an opera previously cancelled over fears Muslims might be offended by a scene featuring the Prophet Muhammad's severed head.

A Berlin police spokesman said after the performance that no incidents were reported.

Authorities had warned that the scene in Mozart's Idomeneo, which also includes the severed heads of Jesus, Buddha and Poseidon, could lead to violent reprisals, although Muslim groups had dismissed such fears.


There was a mixed reaction to the controversial scene itself, which lasted for just over a minute and came at the very end of the opera after the music finished.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/60DDFE0C-FB12-4212-BD70-0505EAAC14BA.htm

[YOY]

1. Good for the Deutsche Opera

Free speach until the bloody goddamn end.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. How about that

not all Muslims are terrorists, and not all want to blow up an opera hall because of the depiction. I notice that your source is al Jazeera. You mean this wasn't front page on Faux News? :sarcasm:

[barb162]

5. That anyone would want to blow up this theater with

this Mozart production is pretty sick, don't you think? Fox, BBC or Al Jazeera or NBC, who cares?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. But no one did

no one wanted to-the Germans were just taking precautions. But you won't hear Faux, NBC, CBS, etc, run stories on the fact that most Muslims aren't terrorists, and are rather reasonable folks. Did any of them run the piece about the 600 imams who signed a fatwa condemning 911? Or the imam who this month condemned the Iranian Holocost Denial Conference? Or the many, many times Muslims in this country have reached out in ecumenism to other faiths, held conferences for peace, etc, etc? There's a reason for this: MSM needs a new scapegoat, and they've chosen Islam.

[UndertheOcean]

6. You don't beleive AlJazeera is reliable ?

I think its very professional.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. I believe it is very reliable

much more reliable than MSM in the US. What I'm saying is that one way the MSM crafts the news in this country is by deciding what items are "newsworthy" and what items are not. I've noticed for quite some time that any item that implies that Muslims might not all be insane terrorists out to kill Americans are not considered "newsworthy" by the MSM, whose job appears to be to make Islam the next bogeyman, since Communism basically hit the dust.

[barb162]

3. I am glad the opera was put on. It never should have been delayed

I am sorry there had to be guards. I saw this opera a few years ago and it's too bad some people think a certain part is offensive to the point they want it banned

[Bridget Burke]

Apparently, one "anonymous phone tip" ....

Led to the postponement of this production. There were no open protests, no marching in the streets.

But I wouldn't be surprised if music lovers protest. Sure, the producers "improved" on Mozart!

[Bridget Burke]

4. Accidental Duplicate: Please disregard.....

[Kellanved]

9. Note: the scene in question is not by Mozart at all

It's by Neuenfels, who is famous for his drastic stagings. For instance his current Zauberflöte features a flute formed like a dildo.
Usually the cultural elite, including the German president, protests against his interpretations of classical pieces.

Part of the delay was cause by the fact that the heads had already been disposed.