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by | 1:22 pm | Jun 21, 2009

Our Own CerquettiFarrell guessed correctly, if cautiously that all those people in short pants were doing Salome. To be precise, it’s a Christopher Alden production for Saarbrücken.

Next up, an opera that looks like it might be Salome , but it’s not. So what is it? (Remember, cher public, no blurting! If you have seen this production, sit quietly while everyone else plays the game!)

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  • pavel says:

    La clemenza di Tito?

    on June 21, 2009 at 2:17 PM
  • La marquise de Merteuil says:

    Pavel beat me to it! I’d say La Clemenza too!

    on June 21, 2009 at 2:25 PM
  • WeillFan says:

    The Romulus & Remus boar/woman suggests a Roman-set work, so I’ll guess “The Coronation of Poppea” as re-set in the Playboy Mansion.
    Photo one is of Ottavia (in blue) with Seneca (in tie), Ottone (in drag) and Drusilla plotting to bump off the latest trophy-wife-auditionee Poppea.
    Photo two is Ottone agonizing about being rejected by Poppea before he dons drag.
    Photo three is of the Playboy club employees responding to Fortune, Virtue and Love in the prologue (or just lining up to be inspected by Hugh Hefner).

    on June 21, 2009 at 3:15 PM
  • Baritenor says:

    Okay, the setting is Rome in some fashion (The Statue is a dead giveaway, as is the SPQR logo, which stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus, the motto of the city of Rome). Poppea is a good guess, and in the same vein I’d say Handel’s Agrippina or maybe Boito’s Nerone.

    on June 21, 2009 at 3:26 PM
  • justanothertenor says:

    I say Attila. Aren’t they about to enter Rome?

    on June 21, 2009 at 3:36 PM
  • actfive says:

    It seems obvious to me that the couple in the center of pic #1 are supposed to be the Clintons. Gotta be Handel, but I dunno which?

    on June 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM
  • Krunoslav says:

    I’m going with RIENZI.

    on June 21, 2009 at 4:29 PM
  • Krunoslav says:

    And that Chris Alden SALOME looked like virtually all of his other work.

    What a shame– and how revealing, alas, about Mr. Steel’s level of knowledge– that City Opera’s “new direction” DON GIOVANNI is yet another of his sophomoric cliche-fasts. Not a new idea in 35 years…

    on June 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM
  • Lydia Language says:

    I was going to mention all those Roman operas (this one is too obvious, Cieca – the drag queen in the first picture is clearly Arnalta), but got beat to the punch no fair!

    So I’ll say it’s Tannhauser, the first picture being the contest on the Wartburg, the second Tannhauser recollecting his pilgrimage across the Alps, and the final scene, a bunch of bunnies hurrying home with the papal fruit-bearing staff.

    on June 21, 2009 at 4:41 PM
  • Scott Rose says:

    Setting the record straight here:

    SPQR = Sonno pazzi questi Romani

    on June 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM
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