regie rigor
Cher public, you are simply getting too clever for this poor old simple-minded doyenne. With only two photos to guide you, so many of you deduced that the opera was Wagner’s Siegfried, in the new production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf for Vienna.
And so, our next quiz will be limited to only one photo. Should you not be able to guess agree on the opera, La Cieca will oblige with additional images — though, given the demonstrated intelligence level of the regulars here, further clues will almost certainly not be necessary only add to the fun!
Did anyone read Mr Holland’s latest opus?
“Her opening songs, mostly late-Romantic lieder, were not kind to the present condition of her voice, relying as they did on the ability to sing at midrange quietly and in tune.” – in today’s review of Jessye Norman’s recital.
it’s a shame when people sing music that makes them rely on singing in tune, isn’t it?
That was a dead give-away, Cieca…..I hope the Third rails were shut off , during this Berlin production of “Magic Flute”!…
Where did the audience SIT??–can you imagine this at the Times Square IRT Station?
BTW…they could pull this off at the Chambers Street/WTC Station of the IND A/C/E lines…we have those real creepy eye mosaics all over the place, there…..
I read Hollands piece today… his line “were not kind to the present condition of her voice…” seemed eerily similar to our own jj in his assesment of Ms. Dessay: “…excellent fit for her current vocal estate.” coincidence?
JJ and BH are the same person!
It must be Otello (the Rossini one.)
THE JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY
Just to be Bizarre I think it is La Straniera, or Rigoletto or “The Eyes of Laura Mars.”
OR What about Billy Bud?
I’m guessing this is the new Zauberflöte from the Berlin train station? I head about it in some blog and this seems to make sense.