The opening night of William Tell at the Royal Opera House has been marked by boos over a rape scene with nudity.The Stage gave the production one star. George Hall called it a “dire evening” in which the “gratuitous gang-rape” scene provoked “the noisiest and most sustained booing I can ever recall during any performance at this address”.
“Intellectually poverty-stricken, emotionally crass and with indifferent stagecraft , the result is nowhere near the standard an international company should be aiming at”, he said.
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