sally in our allies
Two weeks later, and the drollery just keeps a-drippin’ in the competition to provide some explanation for a rather curious opera scene depicting a lady apparently trying to drown a chambermaid in a hotel bathtub. The snappiest comeback, in La Cieca’s opinion, issued from wotan_in_inman, “We’ll disguise ourselves to fool both the Count and Figaro. I’ll put on your clothes and you put on this bathtub.”
Well, okay, the actual opera in question is Aida, as produced at the Staatstheater Nürnberg by Jens-Daniel Herzog.
Now that’s cleared up, let’s get back to the serious business of guess-the-regie.
How about Lohengrin? With all those sheets – those could be the wings of multiple swans. Symbolism of the clumsy kind
Boheme, totally.
Oh, I thought I’d be too late with guessing ONEGIN, but no-one’s done it so far – so:
1: Tatiana and Gremin in Act 3, with a nice backdrop of bored party guests.
2: Olga and Lenski in Act 2, with a nice backdrop of bored party guests. (Lenski being the most bored of all.) Onegin makes an effort to spice things up with a bottle of champaign for Olga.
3: Tatiana at the end of the letter scene, Act 1. After that letter she clearly needs to, ahem, air out her bedsheets. Backdrop of bored party guests obscured by the bedsheets.
Judging from the headline hint, though, it would ave to be something with military or war in it…
The Met couldn’t get recession financing for the Chagall paintings so:
pic.1)Next year’s center parterre seats.
pic.2)Next year’s Grand Tier restaurant waitstaff.
pic.3)Next year’s costume department.