From Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, directed by Calixto Bieito at the Komische Oper, Berlin in 2007. It seems the S&M treatment is mandatory for Entführung these days.
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Nude actors wearing Mickey-mouse masks walk past opera singer Adina Aaron as Amelia (L) as they perform on stage during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Ein Maskenball” (“Un Ballo in maschera” / “A masked Ball”) directed by Austrian Johann Kresnik, on April 9, 2008 in the eastern town of Erfurt. The production will have its premiere on April 12, for which Kresnik hired some 30 seniors to take part in the opera. (Photo credit – JENS-ULRICH KOCH/AFP/Getty Images)