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Deutsche Oper?s production ends with Cretan king Idomeneo carrying the severed heads of Neptune, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed.
The scene, added to the script by director Hans Neuenfels, is meant to symbolise the king?s estrangement from religion after he reneges on a vow to the gods, and was roundly booed at its Berlin premiere in 2003.
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this is interesting.
if you do a little research on neuenfels, the cynical reading of the press release above becomes more and more plausible.
i dont think folk are reacting to the whole story, only a particular version of it.
so it could well be that this thread has set off on a false path.