In 1921, German composer Paul Hindemith sought to debut his one-act opera Sancta Susanna, which explores a nunnery’s descent into sexual frenzy, at the prestigious Stuttgart Opera. But outrage over its allegedly blasphemous text, which one critic at the time called a “desecration of our cultural institutions”, forced the premiere to be postponed until the following year at the Oper Frankfurt. Now, over a century later, Stuttgart’s State Opera has brought a radical-feminist reinterpretation of Hindemith’s work to life with Sancta, directed by the avant-garde choreographer Florentina Holzinger. …