Ambiguous anguish
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13 December 2007
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58 Comments:
Fidelio?
Orfeo ed Euridice?
Trovatore - last scene
I also think it's the last scene of Trovatore.
Is the guy with a baton the conductor?
Macbeth, perhaps, agonizing over murdering Duncan and urged on by his wife.
Don Carlo(s)?
Robert, that's not a baton, he's just glad to see her.
Is that not a hangman's noose he's holding?
Ballo? Riccardo/Gustavus and Amelia at the gibbet?
Lulu?
Werther?
If he's holding a noose, perhaps it's the lead-in to the Pa-pa-pa-pa Papageno duet. In any case, Dies Bildnis ist nicht bezaubernd schoen.
The Knot Garden?
Isn´t that Carmen last scene?
OK - I have read it through only now... So Andrea Chenier?
L'Elisir?
Just before "Ach, ich fuehl's"?
La Finta Giardiniera? The Makrapolous Case? Gypsy!!!
The scariest thing in the picture is the identity of the female figure--she couldn't sing Butterfly last season at the Met and she sure as shit can't sing the aristocratic leading lady in this opera.
Don Carlos, after finding out it was Eboli he was making out with. "Qu'ai-je fait, qu'ai-je fait, oh douleur amère..."
I have to agree with those who said it's Trovatore.
Tosca, with the off-stage torture scene happening on stage...
It sounds kind of too obvious to be right, but I'd guess "Hoffman?" The guy -- is that a guy in blue? -- looks pretty tortured.
Hansel and Gretel?
A second guess - supposing the tortured guy is a girl, this could be La Clemenza di Tito or Mitridate.
Considering that the craziest productions generally involve the most popular operas in the repertoire, those could be Amneris and Radames in the last act.
OK, so it's Christina G-D (Leonora) and k.d. lang (Manrico) in the final scene of Il Trovatore.
A friend saw R&J last night and aside from raving about Trebs - he said most of the focus of the opera was on Bobby's manhood which was on prominent display. He said it didn't look that big, though.
I agree with everyone, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say Rosenkavalier... only because the guy in the suit looks like a woman.
"On this very special episode of Wheel of Fortune our host is funnyman Richard Lewis. Filling in for Vanna White will be Maria Callas as Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle."
Fledermaus..Eisenstein is REALLY distraught over losing his watch...
In a very perverted way, the finale of Trovatore does seem like a most likely guess.
it si Trovatore from Zurich, CGD's website gives the clue
So the guy/girl in blue is not one of the principals... This is definitely not Marcelo Alvarez nor Leo Nucci :-)
ew, she's rolling out of the top of her dress.
so obv- it's eugene onegin
djedushka
I was in FC standing room, but I had my binoculars and yes--I have never seen such a blatant display of basket on the Met stage. Dwayne Croft as Count Almaviva didn't even come close.
it's Norma - set at Les Bains in Paris.
Suor Angelica
Rake's Progress.
Speaking of which, that's probably an opera that (Baba the Turk you know) wouldn't go over well in Istanbul. They wouldn't get it.
If it's a noose, maybe it's Fanciulla.
The anguish seems to be caused by the woman's presence, so the final scenes of Aida or Trovatore would fit... or maybe Manon, St Sulpice scene? Des Grieux all snared up in the church...
Noose - well then it has to be Billy Budd and that's Peter Pears as Captain Vere..... what else could it be?
Is this from "Amahl and the Night Visitors," when the King's page realizes that the mother has stolen the gold?
(In the spirit of the holiday season ...)
Is it Tristan and(und) Isolde after swigging the potion?
I believe this is the final scene of Il Grasso, when the heroine Sabbioso shows up in a new outfit, and Danilo is extremely surprised and sings the aria Sono tutto intasato
Time for me to guess Fidelio again. One of theses times I'll be right.
Moses und Aron?
Violetta D. Pensataci:
That was mean.
And hilarious.
"Cherry duet" from L'amico Fritz.
I find these exercises fascinating. This really gets to the heart of what Peter Konwitschny was talking about in the comments I made on a post a little while back: he was so fed up with people being able to take one look at a stage and say, "Yup, that's Boheme" or "that's Butterfly" or "that's Don Carlo" that he wanted to shake off all that instantly recognizable stuff and have people come to the theater and experience these classics as if they were new. Some ideas work better than others, clearly. Whoever put clowns in the last scene of Traviata should be hanged by his gall bladder. (But that's mostly because I don't like clowns.)
Ariadne auf Naxos, Prologue.
It's the Count/Susanna duet from Act III of Figaro:
Verrai?
Sì.
Non mancherai?
No.
Dunque verrai?
No.
No?
Pain and torment ensue as readily apparent from the picture above.
Il Trovatore, Opernhaus Zürich.
Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcelo Álvarez. Director: Giancarlo del Monaco.
"He said it didn't look that big, though."
Yeah, I saw Alagna sing Werther in 04, and he got a hard-on during his high notes. G-d bless opera-glasses.
Oh, also, despite Trovatore getting outed as the right answer, I still stand by my guns:
Hansel and Gretel, Evening Prayer.
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Hmmmm, maybe that's why Angela has to skip rehearsals...
So in this modern-day, modern-dress version of Trovatore, are Manrico and Azucena still gypsies? Or are they, say... unidentified intruders into the Count's private estate? undocumented immigrant workers? enemy combatants?
Instead of being a troubador, what is Manrico? A karaoke singer? A nightclub act? What about his army of fighters? What are they, the local gang of street thugs? Explain the details, please!
And what about the Anvil Chorus? Do they beat rhythm on actual anvils? Or is it in (say) an auto repair shop and they bang their tools against car parts?
Argggh. I am still trying to figure out what that white grand piano was doing on stage in the Prague "Norma" regie quiz a few weeks ago.
These riddles keep me up at night.
Manon
St. Sulpice scene
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