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!
Ernani. Or Maria Stuarda.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ukgzng
A little gift for a sunday morning.
Thanks, Sanford – kinda goes with a Sunday-brunch-with-mimosas theme. When was it recorded?
Sanford- Thank you for that upload. Very nice!
I suggest a surprising new game. Put on your favourite cd and accompany with random images from the television – any film is suitable for this purpose. You will find that miraculously music and visuals match up in an entirely apporiate manner, although sometimes the results are less outrageous than contemporary productions.
Der fliegende Holländer
It’s from her Verdi Arias album , which has, as far as I know, never come out on CD. The album cover I remember it having is a gorgeous black and white photo, but that was a reissue in the 70s. I believe it was originally released in the mid 60s.
Cieca, fun though this quizz is (and I do love trying to figure out the German mind.. or lack of it) couldn’t you do much the same thing with a lot of the old rep from the Met or other houses (Scala, Covent Garden etc)? I mean, one Donizetti certainly tended to look like another when I was a girl and Don Giovanni seemed indistinguishable in most houses from Ernani or Rigoletto at times. A generalisation, I know, but as Mr Poutney once said “sometimes in replacing an old fashioned setting you create a greater monster in its place”.
Just a thought, Cieca……………………………………
Tannhäuser — first pic is the song contest, second pic is the orgy.
By the way, it looks like a Magic flute to me, too. In a sunway station in Germany?