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.
La Boheme but that makes it too easy.
I see Rigoletto. Walt(in the blue pjs) and Gilda. Then Duke and Mad and Spart. Then Gilda coming through the laundry to be knifed.
And the whole thing is set in some beach resort instead of up north in Mantua. Or is this some Mr. Hulot-type opera?
I’m saying DIE SCHWEIGSAME FRAU.
I will join Violetta D. in saying Cosi.
Why does EVERY damn regie production look like Ariadne to me? *sigh*
I recognize the production (and the tenor) so no playing for me.
I agree with Jim No. 18 that it looks like Rheingold, so it must be Cenerentola.
Magic Flute? Or, Cosi?
Manon Lescaut.