Headshot of La Cieca

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regied refuse

Kudos to tannengrin who identified last week’s Regie puzzler correctly as Nabucco. La Cieca’s heart, though, belongs to Leper Ello, who made a minimally plausible case for Boris Godunov (“The Fool – in drag – laments the future of Russia”).

There’s more to lament in this week’s very serious staging.

105 comments

  • schweigundtanze says:

    I don’t know what it is, but I’d certainly like to see it. It looks rather like a City of Angels production. Having said that, my guess is Fidelio.

  • pavel says:

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk? Don’t ask me why, maybe the first picture is of Katerina’s husband warning her not to cheat on him.

  • Cocky Kurwenal says:

    The first picture made me think of parto, parto, before I remembered that Sesto is played by a lady. But I’ll stick with La Clemenza Di Tito anyway, in case serous = seria.

  • armerjacquino says:

    Lament, huh?

    Are we in Dido territory? (Or Candide, come to that?)

  • pavel says:

    Wait a sec — is “lament” a clue? Could it possibly be L’arlesiena? Or Orfeo ed Euridice?

  • Willym says:

    gotta be Macbeth – don’t ask me why just have this feeling.

  • Dawnfatale says:

    This looks like a regie version of a light-hearted comedy, so I’m guessing Don Pasquale.

  • drbarbaro says:

    Batman, No Man’s Land: The Opera.

  • Brooklynpunk says:

    Rosenkavalier–pictures in reverse order?

    -Ochs and Mariendel in the tavern

    -Och’s flunkies going berserk at Faninal’s house

    -The bedroom of the Marschellin

  • tenorino says:

    It looks a bit like Petibon in the first shot, but I am guessing it isn’t her as for some strange reason I think this looks a bit like an Otello. Not sure why however.