the beautiful regie is empty
Our most recent Regie puzzler was telecast tonight, but La Cieca thinks her cher public will need no more than a sound clip and a review from the production to make the identity of the work plain:
Friedrichstadtpalast meets Christopher Street Day: Alles, was hier nicht glitzert, ist nackte Haut. Otto Pichler hat supersexy Choreografien für die durchtrainierten Körper erfunden, beim Opening ist die Bühne ein einziger Wirbel aus Armen, Beinen, Busen und Waschbrettbäuchen. Dagegen kommt keine aircondition an: Es ist – mit einer der Glanznummern des Musicals gesprochen – einfach viel zu heiß! (Der Tagesspiegel)
And now for something completely different (visually speaking, at least):
A reminder: if you recognize the production, don’t blurt it out!
lay o-a-lay o-a-lay HEE HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I propose it to be Faust or Mefistole. I wouln’t want to see it, but it is my guess.
…or maybe Traviata…
I’m guessing Makropolis too.
Barber of Seville. In the top pic, the scoundrel Almaviva pays off the serenading musicians in act one, keeping a slutty little sweetheart for himself. In the second shot, the music lesson isn’t at the keyboard but a reality check: you want a career in opera? how are you going to manage it financially? Let’s set up your 401(k). The third image has Berta the housekeeper pondering why old farts foolishly marry young women, ‘Il vecchinotto cerca moglie’, whilst she feels her sexuality, i.e. womb, wither in a pool of light. I had to fight back the tears when i saw this production in Dortmund.
It might also be the film-noir, non-animal production of Cunning Little Vixen that so many people raved about a couple of years back.
Ballo.
Le nozze di Figaro. Pic 1: Rod Gilfrey (Conte), pseudo-Heinz Zednik (Basilio), and Susana (back): Atto I, terzetto, “Come, che dicon tutti! – Oh bella! – Oh cielo!” Pic 2: Antonio (in this production, a lawyer), and Susana (now, with a Christine-Schäfer-look): Finale secondo, “Vostre dunque saran queste carte?” Pic 3: Contessa: Atto III, “Dove sono i bei momenti.”
I vote Onegin too.
Now that the Krauts have got Barrie Kosky I do hope they keep him.
I guess Don Giovanni. 1. Giovanni, Masetto and Zerlina. 2. Leporello and Elvira, “Madamina, il catalogo e questo”, 3. Donna Anna, “Crudele”.