who’s that pretty girl in the regie there?
Our previous Regie puzzler was a very non-standard opera indeed, György Ligeti‘s Le Grand Macabre. More standard and equally grand if perhaps less macabre is this week’s Regie quiz after the jump.Â
And a quick reminder, cher public: if you recognize the production (because you’ve seen reviews or the actual staging) please recuse yourself from the competition. It’s meant to be a guessing game!
1. Raimondo telling the wedding guests about Lucia
2. Lucia in the Mad Scene
3. Lucia looking into a mirror and seeing her Edgardo’s image in the mirror.
Mefistofele? Prologue in heaven? Probably not…
Entfuhrung? No… the eggs in #2 don’t fit.
Susanna? Possibly, possibly…
But La Cieca hints at “grand” so I am saying Meyerbeer and Le Prophete. No, wait, Aida. No, no, uhmm…
Unless pic #3 is “Mirror, O Norma.”
I give up…
Rusalka
Obviously, Il trovatore.
Zauberflöte. Pic 1: O Isis und Osiris. Pic 2: Pamina und Papageno. Pic 3: Pamina und Königin der Nacht (behind the mirror, in a very Lord Voldemort-ish version).
Lohengrin? I think the first is his arrival, the second is I guess her getting ready to hatch some swan babys and the the mirror scene is her losing him back to Swanland.
Carousel.
1. June is Bustin’ All Over (including in heaven one act too early with giant pollen spores.)
2. When the Children Are Asleep Upstairs (or over there in the nest in this production).
3. Julie’s final monologue (Billy’s looks have changed since he died).
PoisonIvy guessed Frosch: “The two eggs obviously meant to represent fertility, and the mirror representing the shadow.”
Those aren’t eggs; they’re titties. It’s “Les Mammelles de Tirésias”
I also think Parsifal. The first photo just screams Gurnemanz at me.