got a regie in your pocket
Our previous Regie quiz depicted (as Nerva Nelli so quickly guessed) Verdi’s Aida, in a production by Christopher Alden for the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
And now, cher public, our weekly edition of Name that Regie. Remember, if you have seen the production or otherwise recognize the photos, please remain silent while others guess the answer!
OK, one and three make it Boheme, but what’s Mimi up to in two? Does she live for pleasure, or did she have to get on with the darn seamstress bit?
Google did it for me too.
But in the spirit of past quizzes, I’d like to be the first one to suggest Frau ohne Schatten.
I think this would make a lovely Beatrice & Benedict, at least pictures 1 and 3.
There is huge business potential in this whole regie theater, though. Instead of borrowing and shipping productions of the same opera around, you would have a production set that can be applied to ANY opera. So, you play it as Carmen in San Diego, as Lulu in Bergisch-Gladbach, and as Traviata in Milan. Or, as an opera house, you just have a standard set and use it for all operas that you play during the season. How hard can it be to use Taymor’s animals for Aida?
tannengrin…That was actually a fun game a couple of years ago: putting which opera into which other opera’s sets for maximum regie madness.
Rosenkavalier in the Aida sets.
Turandot in the Adriana Lecouvreur sets.
Fanciulla del West in the Nabucco sets.
Carmen in the Billy Budd sets.
It became so insane that it actually started happening.
Trittico in the Samson et Dalila sets, anyone?
Haha Tannengrin – at Salzburg this summer they have Don Giovanni set in a forest and Rusalka set in a low-dive whorehouse, so it’s happening already.
My Fantasy; WESTSIDE STORY
The revisionist deconstructed version, Sharks = Gays, Jets = Lesbians. Toni is a Butch Dyke,. Falls for Mario a “Gayer” who is secretly a transgender Lesbian, who wants the operation so that She can become a Lipstick Lesbian and be w/ Toni. Then move to San Francisco and be married.
#1 Opening Rumble
#2 THERE”S A PLACE FOR US fanatsy dance sequence or I FEEL PRETTY!
#3 MAMBO!
But I think Rysanekfreak is correct except #1 seems to me the Ping Pang Pong trio in the 3rd act.
Ray
With not even a single flower or plant in sight, this MUST be regie’s answer to the dramatic demands posed by Mozart’s La finta giardiniera.
This performance is Ariadne auf Naxos. I’ve seen it 27.07.2008 in Munich. 1-st foto – Zerbinetta – Diana Damrau with her partners, 2-nd foto – Damrau with the boys. 3-rd – is Daniela Sindram in the role of der Komponist is on the boys shoulders – final sciene.