Mystère-en-scène
Nothing more fun on a scorching summer day that a friendly game of “Name that Opera.” Below you’ll find two photographs from a recent production of a familiar opera. Can you name the opera? (Bonus: who’s the director?)
(P.S. — no fair “guessing” if you know the answer from having seen the production or reviews of it!)
La Maison de la Tour (Swayze singing Dalton)
Weekend at Donati’s (he is dead but they drag him around)
Rogers and Evans in Amico Trigger
Since it is wildly popular in Europe an opera should be made of The Bold and the Beautiful, but who would sing Stephanie and Sally?
Reading Between the Leontynes
Mitridate The Press
American Siegfried Idyll
Dead Like Mimi
Sports Senta
Les Large, Medium or Small Troyens
The Coronation of Camilla
Rustic Chevrolet
I Married Giovanna D’Arco
The 300 Bucks a Seat Opera
Charles Anthony and Cleopatra
Dallastrina
Someone will notice that I made a howler in trying to translate Road House into French. Road is not Tour-I think it is Chemin. Anyway, the casting of a singer to do Patrick Swayze’s role would be a legend of theatre.
Le Cid et Nancy, Hansel and Grendel, The Merry Wives of Windsor Locks, Geschwitz and Grace, Don’t Turandot Channel, La Fanciulla de Deadwood, The Papagenos, Meet Millo, Anna Miller, Zinka and Zdenka-PIs, Fidelio y Raulio
Ms. Rolandi is not forgotten–she is now Mrs. Andrew Davis and dispenses bad vocal advice to the apprentices in the Chicago Lyric program.
Friday Night Foot-Ballo in Maschera
Mad Scene TV
Degrassi ben mio
Empty Nesterenko
Heddle Nash Bridges
Cosby fan tutte
Ocean, Thou Might Monster house!
W.K.R.P in Adelina Patti
Szell Dogs
Dear John – McCormack
Desperate House Wives of Windsor
Lucia Sextet and the City
Lizzie Borden-American Chopper
Martha Martha Martha
Masked Ball Party
The Emperor Bones
Tireseas, starring in All My Children
Cenerentolla, starring in Sugarfoot
Gatti Milk? Gadski Milk? Gobbi Gillis, Pat Munselster, the Theo Adamms family, Hans Hotterthan, Luigi LaBlanchedubois. (Chackowhacko came up with La Mama Morta’s Family; CBS in the late 70s did a Eunice and Mama special in which Mama did die.)
It’s Pat!-ria mia
Elisabeth Schwarz-COPS
OZ si ben mio
Kathleen Battle of the Network Stars
Johan Love Botha