Immoral Opera in Antwerp features naked nuns in grotesque and repulsive scenes — PROTEST!
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, in Antwerp, will stage the blasphemous and anti-Catholic opera “Sancta” between 4 and 9 April. The concentration of blasphemy in this opera’s performance is so great and invasive that even the secular media is disturbed:
- Holzinger [director of Sancta] stages scenes featuring nude actresses and imagery that may be disturbing, such as a wall of crucified naked bodies onto which litres of blood pour, as well as explicit [intercourse] scenes and a scene of bodily mutilation. (RTBF)
- Eighteen people were treated by staff at the Stuttgart Opera after attending a performance of “Sancta” [when the play premiered in Stuttgart in October 2024]. (La Libre)
- Blood, gore, and lesbian [intercourse]: Violent opera leaves 18 audience members needing medical aid. (HT)
- Criticism of religion or “catholic bashing”? Provocative opera “Sancta” [...] divides opinions. (SWR.de)
In the grotesque and repulsive nude scenes, the Catholic faith and the Catholic Church are ridiculed in an outrageous manner.
The actors in these scenes are priests, nuns, and popes.
These repulsive scenes are a parody of Catholic rituals.
Some excerpts from the German press coverage when the play premiered in Stuttgart in 2024 (slightly abbreviated for the sake of respect):
- A female Jesus spanks a naked nun, two women engage in explicit homosexual displays, and real blood covers naked bodies. (Apollo News)
- In the opera “Sancta”, the Austrian director brings lesbian [intercourse] scenes to the stage with provocative clarity, ridiculing Christian rituals... (Bild)
- While Sister Klementia is conjuring Susanna at the front of the stage to renounce physical love, two naked performers at the back are passionately kissing and touching each other in front of a huge climbing wall. Later, they climb onto a glowing cross: the figure of Jesus is replaced by two women entwined. (SWR)
Whatever the graphic nature of the play, the performance is an offense against morality and a mockery of the Church.
We cannot possibly accept such an attack on our Lord Jesus Christ, on our faith, and on the Holy Church in silence.
Therefore, I invite you to join this important petition.
Sign the petition to the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen now to express your disgust and protest this monstrous blasphemy.
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To: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen,
I demand the immediate cancelling of the play, “Sancta”, which is scheduled to take place between 4 and 9 April.
The performance of “Sancta” displays hatred for Christian virtue and those consecrated souls who practice it, and is an insult to Christians worldwide. Above all, this is an offense to God, as it insults his sacred Bride, The Church, and mocks his Virgins.
I am shocked that public funds are being used to insult God in this extreme way.
Your performance is nothing more than extremism under the guise of art: you hide behind artistic freedom to insult and abuse all Christians, but especially Catholics, in the most repulsive way.
Your performance of Sancta shows the level of hatred for Christianity that some of the cultural industry in Belgium are capable of.
I demand that you make an apology for this insult, and to call off this offensive play.
Sincerely and urgently,