Comments on: hi-res regie

By: Scaramuccio

Scaramuccio — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:23:32 +0000

Oh, and perhaps you could fill us in on production and singers each time, La Cieca, please?

By: Pallor di morte

Pallor di morte — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:33:55 +0000

This looks like “La clemenza di Tito.”

1. Vitellia
2. Sesto and Tito
3. Vengo, aspettate, Sesto!

By: Cocky Kurwenal

Cocky Kurwenal — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:49:10 +0000

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.

By: Scaramuccio

Scaramuccio — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:38:41 +0000

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.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:35:52 +0000

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.

By: Stevey

Stevey — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:04:55 +0000

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.

By: nibelungen

nibelungen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:51:50 +0000

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

By: operadirector

operadirector — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:19:34 +0000

Wild guess here – but is it “The 4 Note Opera”?

By: PushedUpMezzo

PushedUpMezzo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:05:27 +0000

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

By: pavel

pavel — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:03:33 +0000

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?

By: Christian Ocier

Christian Ocier — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:01:15 +0000

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.

By: kashania

kashania — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:50:20 +0000

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.

By: tannengrin

tannengrin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:29:56 +0000

I’m voting for Ariadne:

- the Diva (not amused)
- the composer
- some of the comedians

By: Vivaldi

Vivaldi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:45:26 +0000

Lucia di Lammermoor

1. Ohime sorge la tremenda fantasma
2. Lucia – Raimondo Duet
3. Wedding Scene just before Raimondo annonces Arturo’s murder

By: Hagenschmagen

Hagenschmagen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:13:33 +0000

Is it Pergolesi’s I puntigli delle donne?

By: Stevey

Stevey — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:05:55 +0000

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…)

By: WindyCityOperaman

WindyCityOperaman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:00:30 +0000

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).

By: BabFab

BabFab — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:44:14 +0000

Agree: Die Zauberflote.

By: John

John — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:37:29 +0000

Its the long lost six act Polish version of Don Carlos that ends with a group hug and/or hanging.

By: il mio padre's spook

il mio padre's spook — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:28:44 +0000

JULIEN,
LOUISE would be too obvious!!

By: Miss Kitty Litter

Miss Kitty Litter — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:14:18 +0000

Something relatively obscure by Handel I should think. Details only get in the way.

By: Nerva Nelli

Nerva Nelli — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:34:29 +0000

ELISABETTA NEL CASTELLO DI KENILWORTH?

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:33:48 +0000

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.)

By: Orlatromba

Orlatromba — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:39:57 +0000

Lulu, maybe? 1 is Geschwitz, 2 is Lulu and, say, Dr. SchÃ¶n and 3 is the men killing themselves for her?

It’s either that or Rossini’s La Gazzetta…

By: Buster

Buster — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:27:57 +0000

Clemenza di Tito?

By: Baritenor

Baritenor — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:48:08 +0000

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.

By: Valmont

Valmont — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:30:13 +0000

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…

By: mrs. miller

mrs. miller — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:35:26 +0000

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.

By: Melot's Younger Brother

Melot's Younger Brother — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:30:40 +0000

I’ll go with “Mitridate.”

By: Lisa Hirsch

Lisa Hirsch — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:51:27 +0000

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.)