Comments on: got a regie in your pocket

By: JuliaE

JuliaE — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:12:36 +0000

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.

By: Vanderdecken

Vanderdecken — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:48:18 +0000

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.

By: opvidfan

opvidfan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:21:36 +0000

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

By: Regina delle fate

Regina delle fate — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:10:29 +0000

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.

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:27:32 +0000

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?

By: tannengrin

tannengrin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:57:20 +0000

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?

By: Gianni di Keokuk

Gianni di Keokuk — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:33:35 +0000

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.

By: Scaramuccio

Scaramuccio — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:29:47 +0000

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?

By: arepo

arepo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:20:15 +0000

Oh poo! I just did a Google and found out the real answer.

Manrico & Maurizio: BEGONE!!!

By: kashania

kashania — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:00:18 +0000

Me too. I’ve been waiting for one of these to be Suor Angelica. I still have hope…

By: brooklynpunk

brooklynpunk — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:50:18 +0000

Well…I hope the rest of us act like we’re the Republican presidential nominee (sort of)—and claim we don’t know how to use the gosh-durn internet….

I still want it to be ..Suor Angelika….

By: Leper Ello

Leper Ello — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:47:56 +0000

West Side Story, obviously. “When you’re a Jet” and then “I Feel Pretty” and lastly the Brindisi. Scratch that, I meant, “The Rumble,” of course.

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:47:17 +0000

Yes, Melot’s YB…I too did a quick Yahoo search and found out the answer. This is like all the people I used to work with…”I know a secret, and I can’t tell anyone, but here goes…..”

By: Melot's Younger Brother

Melot's Younger Brother — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:13:08 +0000

BTW, in #14 someone who shall remain namesless (sic) blurted out the identity of one of the singers, which in this day of Google is tantamount to blurting out the answer. (He admits he saw the production.) It took me .08 seconds to figure out that this is a production of…

Begone, Spoilers!

By: arepo

arepo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:00:19 +0000

Oh what the heck, (I know it’s wrong): “Romeo et Juliette”

By: PushedUpMezzo

PushedUpMezzo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:55:02 +0000

They’re all much too happy for Mahagonny

By: Sean Ferguson

Sean Ferguson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:43:55 +0000

Mahagonny?

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:23:30 +0000

I also think Fledermaus.

By: manou

manou — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:41:43 +0000

Manon – only because second picture could be “Je marche sur tous les chemins…”

By: danpatter

danpatter — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:29:54 +0000

I’m going with Flittermouse. Or maybe Giordano’s Siberia?

By: pavel

pavel — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:53:41 +0000

The third pic makes me think of Die Meistersinger. And love the hand placement of the guy in sunglasses…

By: Melot's Younger Brother

Melot's Younger Brother — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:46:50 +0000

It must be something Handelian, updated so that the unwashed masses who flock to German opera houses “get it.”

Oh, why is Renee the only one who wears a powdered wig these days…

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:18:12 +0000

Obviously Turandot.

1. non piangere Liu
2. in questa reggia
3. and his name is…LOVE!…curtain…applause

By: Caterina

Caterina — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:51:49 +0000

I’ll go for La Somnambula
Caterina

By: FlorezFan

FlorezFan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:18:50 +0000

The first 2 pics scream “Ariadne.”

But the 3rd one is a bit tricky; the “man” being hoisted up could be the Composer; or it may really be a man. Too bad we can’t see him/her more clearly.

By: PushedUpMezzo

PushedUpMezzo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:51:19 +0000

Carmen
Pic 1 is one of the cigarillo girls selling her wares
Pic 2 is Carmen dancing with male gypsies
Pic 3 is obviously Escamillo outside the corrugated iron London Olympic stadium

By: not telling

not telling — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:29:16 +0000

Pictures two and three give me a real Jenufa vibe.

By: lalala

lalala — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:20:21 +0000

This reaks of La Boheme

By: tamerlano

tamerlano — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:44:08 +0000

Why, what are you implying, La Cieca?

By: spanglish

spanglish — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:19:29 +0000

EntfÃ¼hrung?