In questa Regie or son mille ani
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13 January 2008
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45 Comments:
All those balls- I think I shall root for Turandot.
I don't mean to be flippant, but wouldn't that make a great staging of the musical Cats?
I'll hazard a guess though: Die Walkure?
It must be Das Rheingold somewhere
Simon Boccanegra, I reckon
That top picture makes me think Lohengrin, Act II.
tarandus you are allowed to be flippant- the director is!
Pagliacci?
Could our gracious host(ess) finally have weakened and given us, at long long last, Dialogues des Carmélites?
Aiberdonian
Don Carlo, maybe?
It looks like Don Pasquale to me.
Not Turandot, I'd imagine, not with the thread title.
Oh, I dunno... Forza?
I'll agree with la regina: Das Rheingold.
obviously Les Contes d'Hoffmann :)
Going with the Rhinegold crowd on this one.
Those gods are getting odder and odder.
with all those balls around... Ballo??
Yeah, Rheingold. Must be.
Aw, what the hell, PARSIFAL. Or DAS RHEINGOLD. Or DON CARLO.
All those crosses....Could it be Forza?
I Lombardi?
La Juive???
All those crosses and balls... this looks like an interplanetary production of Tannhauser. That middle photo must be Tannhauser's Act 1 return to his home planet. Venus is from Venus, Elisabeth is from Mars.
Weirder and weirder. I can't think of anything that could fit, but Walkuere did come to mind, I know not why.
Scarlatti's "Il trionfo dell'onore", must be...
Don Pasquale...ya, that's it, Don Pasquale.
otello
The headline makes me think Turandot, but it could also be Magic Flute, no?
Pagliacci
Did we ever get the answer to the Jerry-Orbachy looking last quiz? Or was I just the only one too stupid to figure it out
Scene three of Rheingold. I think the two guys are Loge and Wotan (though the Loge looks more like an Alberich somehow).
I'll guess Salome. The first photo reminds me of Salome (and Herodes?) listening over the cistern, and the other two photos seem to fit the opera. As far as the clue, well...the action does take place roughly 2000 years ago.
Clearly, L'amico Fritz
Why, it's clearly Macbeth staged by Bridget Jones.
When the hell are the friggin' SINGERS going to stop subjecting themselves to this kind of idiocy? The costumes look uncomfortable, the set looks downright dangerous. If singers put their collective feet down and said "no" once in a while, it might force directors to stop the insanity. I readily admit I know nothing of how opera houses operate, but would they really fire a singer for saying "I don't want to do the Devo 'Rosenkavalier?'" Am I completely living in a dream world?
Rusalka by way of Space 1999.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble dcrazmo, but singers will stop doing this ridiculous production when the companies stop paying them. Directors are generally hired independent of the singers, rarely with input from either side. If anything the director has a better chance of picking the singer than a singer ever would of picking a director.
However, I do know of a DG production many years ago where the singers were being asked to do some strange things. Finally, the Leporello had enough and told the director that he was going to do "Madamina" his way and if the director objected he would simply leave. To demonstrate that he was not bluffing, he opened his coat pocket to reveal a plane ticket. In this case the director backed down.
By the way, I think it's DG
It's obvious (I thought) - "Il Trovatore".
Then I thought, no, "Otello".
Then I read all the "Rheingold" suggestions. The Ring? But wouldn't that be, well, too obvious for any serious director?
I think I'll stick with "Trovatore"
I say it's Rake's Progress and I say to hell with it.
Olga Borodina was hired for a Covent Garden Amneris a couple of years ago. The director was Bob Wilson -- need one say more? Yes: Olga took one look at what she was expected to do and got on the plane. (The production went on.)
It's when are OPERA LOVERS going to put their feet down, and follow Olga wherever she may lead? that's the question.
That sold-out Bieto Seraglio in Berlin does not encourage one.
It must be Turandot!
Of course it's Tosca. The first picture is the Mario, Mario! duet between Manrico and Leonora. The second act is the Te Deum in which Atanael scorns Thais. The third is the execution scene in which Maurizio comes to rescue Adriana from a helium intoxication
I'm guessing with all the crosses Faust. With a second guess of Turandot or La boheme. Something about all the red screams Puccini.
Or Hansel und Gretel...
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What was the final answer for the previous production with the cheerleaders and could you tell from which opera house each of these hail from so I can grab them or avoid them if/when they come on video
What was the final answer for the previous production with the cheerleaders and could you tell from which opera house each of these hail from so I can grab them or avoid them if/when they come on video
The last one was Fidelio, believe it or not.
I'm going with my usual guess...Tales of Hoffmann. Or Maybe The Rape of Lucretia...
COme on, folks. It's obviously Pagliacci set in the Moulin Rouge.
I withdraw my guess of Tannhauser. I think the pictures are in reverse order, and this is the outer space version of Aida. The top photo is the tomb scene. The middle photo is the trial scene, which, in a bold stroke of regie, is displayed for the first time with Ramfis and the priests on stage, Amneris' reaction being heard from backstage. And the bottom photo is the judgment duet immediately preceding the trial. It follows of course that in this production, the entire opera is performed backwards in a parallel future universe.
it's nabucco, of course.
Is this die kleine Wagner's production of her gross gross grossvater's Rheingold that got royally booed in Berlin?
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