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I’m the nude lesbian Jesus in the shocking opera that’s making audience members sick — my role is the ‘thrill’ of a lifetime
radical feminist opera that controversially sickened 18 audience members over its sex scenes and depictions of sadism is speaking out.Annina Machaz plays a thoroughly unconventional version of Jesus in “Sancta Susanna,” which was shelved due to public outrage back in 1921.Now, more than 100 years later, composer Paul Hindemith’s controversial creation is being performed in Stuttgart, Germany for the first time.In the shocking modernized version, Machaz plays Jesus as a homeless drug addict. She also performs in a secondary role as a naked Adam.