Parody! Get your opera parody here!

[pagerbear]

NYT: Berlin Tarts Up Opera With Sex and Violence

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Indeed, the quest for this kind of spectacle cannot last, if only because scandal is not a renewable resource. Whatever remaining taboos exist in the opera house can be broken only so many times before this approach becomes a parody of itself. That process may already have begun.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/arts/music/21BERL.html


OK, gang, here's your challenge: an updated, "tarted up" opera production so outlandish it's a parody. You may begin.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit!

"Oh Bwunhiwda...you're so wovewy..."
"Yes I knowww it...I can't help it...."

Cue the fat white horse with Bugs riding bareback now....

[MuseRider]

2. Well, I saw an updated version of Salome

in Houston. I have to admit, it was fabulous. It was not different from the original except in costume and stage set. It was actually very, very cool. There was a lot of blood and one naked oral sex scene that kind of surprised me but it was not bothersome to me even though I sometimes resent changing the original.