The Deutsche Oper in Berlin has cancelled a production of Mozart's Idomeneo over security worries over possible fallout regarding an added scene by stage director Hans Neuenfels in which Idomeneo presents as a gift the severed heads of Jesus, Buddha, Poseidon, and Mohammed.
Link to CBC article
Update 9/28/06:
Roger Kimball in WSJ weighs in on the controversy
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