hi-res regie
Some very interesting responses to our previous Regie quiz included a correct one from Melot’s Younger Brother. The opera was indeed Król Roger, a fascinating work which (in audio form) will soon grace Unnatural Acts of Opera.
Now, cher public, it’s up to you to decide whether our puzzler this week is the sort of piece that belongs on La Cieca’s podcast — or is this so very obscure that your doyenne has never heard of it?Â
Turandot, I think.
1. In questa Reggia
2. Non Pingera Liu
3. Pi/o/ang Trio.
Fedora. Don’t ask me why.
2. would be “non Piangera, Liu” not “non Pingera.”
Nabucco.
The last picture is that of the production staff hanging themselves after a particularly poor dress rehearsal.
Magic Flute.
Top photo, Queen of the Night.
Middle photo, Pamina and Sarastro.
Third photo…um…. is there a scene with Pamina, Tamino, and Papageno?
(”Non piangere, Liu” is the correct Italian, minus an accent on Liu.)
I’ll go with “Mitridate.”
I think this is some opera version of The Bald Soprano, or some other thing by Beckett or Ionesco. And the guy in #2 looks a lot like Richard Tucker.
I was thinking Giulio Cesare (an woman in a big crown and a sad woman who looks like a man who just lost his father…), but it is probably something like Turandot, with a sad looking Liu and an evil Baroness Turandot…
Lisa-
Thanks for the Italian lesson. I need it, I haven’t touched any kind of italian text a while; I’ve just be doing German and French rep for months.
Clemenza di Tito?
Lulu, maybe? 1 is Geschwitz, 2 is Lulu and, say, Dr. Schön and 3 is the men killing themselves for her?
It’s either that or Rossini’s La Gazzetta…
Obscure? Obscure to our All-Knowing doyenne?
Well, within the last couple of months, I’ve heard webcasts from Europe of Don Bucefalo and La Fattucchiera. I’ll guess Don Bucefalo.
(The Louise Bertin Esmeralda was a concert, not staged, so I guess that gets ruled out.)
ELISABETTA NEL CASTELLO DI KENILWORTH?
Something relatively obscure by Handel I should think. Details only get in the way.
JULIEN,
LOUISE would be too obvious!!
Its the long lost six act Polish version of Don Carlos that ends with a group hug and/or hanging.
Agree: Die Zauberflote.
I think this is a modern-day version of Manuel de Falla’s incomplete scenic oratorio, “Atlantida”. Completed by Halfter, had its world premiere staging at Scala with Stratas and Simionato. The bottom photo is of the three-headed Gorgon (which is a part for three singers).
I’ll agree with baritenor about Turandot… and I think that may even be Lise Lindstrom in the top photo as Turandot. I saw Ms. Linstrom recently as Turandot and she definitely left quite an impression- an excellent Turandot! If that is her, I’d love to know more about this production… (from a vocal standpoint anyway… I’m sort of hoping that the chaps hanging themselves in pic # 3 might not be Ping, Pang & Pong but are actually the production team…)
Is it Pergolesi’s I puntigli delle donne?
Lucia di Lammermoor
1. Ohime sorge la tremenda fantasma
2. Lucia – Raimondo Duet
3. Wedding Scene just before Raimondo annonces Arturo’s murder
I’m voting for Ariadne:
- the Diva (not amused)
- the composer
- some of the comedians
Tannengrin: You might be right. Is the woman in the middle of the third pic the same one as in the second pic? Either way, it makes sense for her to be the Composer.
Isn’t that Lise Lindstrom? Then it must be Turandot! I can’t of any other gnashing evil role she currently has in her repertoire that could come close to depicting scenes shown in these photos.
Doesn’t figuring out the answer by recognizing a singer in the pictures violate the spirit of these regie quizzes? Isn’t it more fun to make clever guesses based on matching visual clues in the regie to an opera?
Well the number of chairs precludes a big chorus or ensemble
Think it could be Cosi (pic 3 Despina joining men to threaten suicide if girls don’t play ball)
Picture one a deranged Fiordiligi
Wild guess here – but is it “The 4 Note Opera”?
gotta be Meistersinger
1: Mrs Pogner rising from her grave in the opening scene in church
2: father and daughter
3: Beckmesser and Walther fighting over Eva
Sorry, Pavel… I wasn’t sure about anything, and I’m still not! Just thinking out loud. Didn’t mean to spoil anybody’s fun.
I’m not convinced it’s Turandot. There are enraged queens all over opera (not to mention outraged ones). The first two pictures could easily be from, say, Maria Stuarda; hell, they could be shots from different angles of the Norma trio. The key has to be the third picture.
I’m torn. La Clemenza di Tito? Mahagonny?
I’ll plump for Mahagonny: the first picture is the Widow, the second Jimmy hungering for one of her girls, the third attempting to avert the hurricane.
What else but Turandot? The soprano in (2) is so Liu-like, the tenor so much like a tenor; the clowns in (3) – and the middle one isn’t the lady in (2), I don’t think – have got to be the Masks.
But I’m always wrong on these.
I think it’s Aida. Pic 1 is Amneris, 2 is round about ‘o patria, patira, quanto mi costi’ and 3 is either a load of Ethiopian prisoners in the triumphal scene, or possibly a load of priests.
This looks like “La clemenza di Tito.”
1. Vitellia
2. Sesto and Tito
3. Vengo, aspettate, Sesto!
Oh, and perhaps you could fill us in on production and singers each time, La Cieca, please?