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
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.