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regie run riot

by | 11:03 pm | Mar 8, 2008

This has to be the strangest staging of a Puccini opera ever!

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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. . .

Parsifal!

. . . then surely this must be Parsifal as well, right?

Parsifal?

Or, if not . . .

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  • tannengrin says:

    Rudi Macaggi and Christi Fiara… I LOVE THOSE NAMES. Does he do a Salome? Is that from the Crazy Horse in Paris?

    on March 9, 2008 at 1:56 PM
  • Hans Lick says:

    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.

    on March 10, 2008 at 2:48 AM
  • Hans Lick says:

    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.

    on March 10, 2008 at 2:50 AM
  • Regina delle fate says:

    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.

    on March 10, 2008 at 8:31 AM
  • paddypig says:

    I believe gelb is bringint this production to the MET starring Millo and Cassanova

    on March 10, 2008 at 3:47 PM
  • Regina delle fate says:

    Erm Keith – I think Toby Spence is singing Tom Rakewell rather than Truelove, if it is the Paris Rake’s Progress.

    on March 11, 2008 at 7:15 AM
  • melisma catatonia says:

    I thought this was Don Jose and the girls from the tobacco factory…Mais on ne voit pas la Carmencita!

    on March 12, 2008 at 6:16 PM
  • ljc says:

    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.

    on March 14, 2008 at 9:04 PM
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