runaway regie
It took sharp-eyed reader Weill Fan less than eight hours to recognize our most recent Regie puzzler. The correct answer was (of course) Ariadne auf Naxos. Additional kudos are due to Weill Fan for pinpointing exactly the characters and situations depicted in all three photos. So, will he (she?) be able to name this week’s mystery opera using only the photos below? (Again, cher public, if you recognize the show, stumm!)
Gotta be Siegfried. He’s probably wearing goggles because he’s forging the sword. And that’s Mime kvetching behind him.
Second pic is probalby Fafner but could be Der Wanderer as well.
Faust, definitely.
How about Parsifal and Kundry (though I’m really not sure about the sex of the person in the Bet Lynch coat) for the first and Klingsor in the second?
Or, Sam and Delilah post-blinding for the first and a particularly evil High Priest in the second?
I will guess Turandot as well. The first picture shows Calaf exclaiming Turandot’s name in the first act, with Timur, whose blindness is portrayed by flight goggles, kneeling before him. The second picture shows the Emperor, raised up as I guess he usually is.
I can also see how this could be Siegfried, although portraying Fafnir as a giant seems a little too literal for this to be good regie. Remember, if it looks like Siegfried, it is obviously Cosi fan Tutte.
It’s obviously Die Zauberfloete, so it must be Don Carlo.
Mikado ? ? ?
I’m thinking Zauberfloete, too. But then, it could be Dialogues, aussi, non?
Sillies..
It’s obviously Rosenkavalier…the first pic is Baron Ochs , in googles, so he can’t tell that Octavian is a girl pretending to be a boy pretending to be an ugly girl..
The second could be the Marschallin before the hairdresser does his magic…or right after her “Ja, Ja’s”…showing how big she is in giving up her young stud…and how it made her lose her hair
Oh dear. I really must check this site more often. Ms. La Cieca suggests it took eight hours for me to form my winning guess for the “Ariadne auf Naxos” Regie quiz.
I’m pretty sure this is “Siegfried,” but since that’s so obvious, I’ll guess “Sweeney Todd” (Hey, if you don’t think that’s a legitimate choice, I’ll remind you that New York City Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Royal Opera, Graz Opera and Opera Australia have all done it).
First picture could be of the Beadle and Mrs. Lovett as she delays him before Sweeney Todd shows up in Act II.
Second picture could the Epilogue when Sweeney Todd reappears after having his throat slit in the climax. “He served a dark and a hungry god…”