"We're going to use less blood in the beginning so the actors don't slip," producer Barrie Kosky said in an interview with <i style="">Berliner Zeitung before Sunday's premier. The opera isn't recommended for viewers under 16.

Whether despite or because of the blood, murder and nudity, Sunday's crowd at Berlin's Komische Oper cheered the modern version of the ancient tale, and culture magazine <i style="">Cicero called it "a great evening of humanity."

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