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?