Opera Canceled Over a Depiction of Muhammad
JUDY DEMPSEY and MARK LANDLERA
German opera house canceled performances of Mozart's "Idomeneo" after a scene that depicts the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad prompted an anonymous threat.
(New York Times)
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Perhaps they felt it was a sensitive time. However, that scene, as reported in the Times, was not in Mozart's original and was added.
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