“The Flying Dutchman” directed by Michael von zur Muehlen @ Leipzig opera premiered on Saturday night.
We don't really know whether it worked musically or not, but videos of such extreme violence -- dogfights, slaughterhouses -- were projected on a big screen that when a stripper took off her clothes on stage, riots erupted in the audience.
Now baritone James Johnson has stepped out (next month Wolfgang Brendel will take over the role) and the production has been suspended for the time being.
The Leipziger Volkszeitung is not amused.
Its readers aren't, either.