Guillaume Tell's gang-rape scene caused uproar at the Royal Opera House " but the portrayal of extreme sex and violence on stage is nothing new
The mass booing that greeted the gang-rape scene at the first night of the Royal Opera's production of Rossini's Guillaume Tell this week might almost lead one to believe that extreme, and arguably gratuitous, sex and violence are unprecedented in our opera houses and theatres. How wrong that would be.
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