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!
Silly posters. Its *always* Ariadne!
Ah HAH !
It’s ORFEO. Those aren’t eggs; those are the extra bits left behind in the castrato process. Or maybe what the mezzo version needs to give it some gumption. Or something.
No, it’s THAIS with a really unsuitable leading lady.
Or PORGY AND BESS.
I’ll go for Norma.
La Belle Helene? She was, after all, herself hatched
Tales of Hoffmann?????
Totally Magic Flute
My money’s also on Zauberflöte:
1. Es lebe Sarastro
2. Ach, ich fühl’s
3. Der Hölle Rache
PS: I’ll buy Grand Macabre for the last regie, but at least confirm that there IS an enormous schwang in the bottom left-hand corner of the first picture. I mean, it can’t NOT be one, right?
It is Cheryl Studer rehearsing for Parisfal and Capriccio.