regie run riot
This has to be the strangest staging of a Puccini opera ever!
Ah, La Cieca must have her little joke! But seriously, cher public, the previous Regiequiz depicted (as so many of you divined) Parsifal.
But wait! If this is Parsifal. . .
. . . then surely this must be Parsifal as well, right?
Or, if not . . .
Rudi Macaggi and Christi Fiara… I LOVE THOSE NAMES. Does he do a Salome? Is that from the Crazy Horse in Paris?
Frederick meets the Stanley sisters (“Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast”) in Act I of Pirates of Penzance (or, as they call it at the Volksoper, Des Piraten). It’s a little-known fact that Wagner, on a fund-raising tour of England for the second Bayreuth Festival, caught an early performance of this work and it gave him the idea for the Flower-Maiden scene on which he was then hard at work.
I did love the Tosca. Not quite the equal of the one with little robo-puppets though.
Dang, now I’ve read the previous posters — the first time I don’t guess Rake’s Progress it turns out to be Rake’s Progress. You can’t fuckin win, dude.
Where is the Tosca clip from? It sounds like a ballet mimed to the second Callas recording with Bergonzi’s E lucevan le stelle. I may be wrong, though.
I believe gelb is bringint this production to the MET starring Millo and Cassanova
Erm Keith – I think Toby Spence is singing Tom Rakewell rather than Truelove, if it is the Paris Rake’s Progress.
I thought this was Don Jose and the girls from the tobacco factory…Mais on ne voit pas la Carmencita!
I thought I recognized Rennee as Miss Goodbody in the Tosca thing, but I don’t know who the guy is. Please have Gelb mount a full production of this version of Tosca. I want to hear Margaret try to describe it some Saturday p.m.