tyrannosaurus regie
Was our last Regie quiz too easy? Quite a few of you (led by operacat) correctly recognized in the wartorn landscape a glimmer of I puritani.
This week, La Cieca sends in the clowns (among others). Remember, cher public, honest guesses only: no blurting out the answer if you recognize the production!
Two options:
Don Giovanni
1. Ah chi mi dice mai / Giovanni-Leporello-Comendatore (opening scene)
2. Drinking songs
3. Giovanni-Leporello-Comendatore (garden scene act II)
Don Carlo
1. Trema per te (Act III Trio)
2. Auto Da Fe
3. Closing Scene – the monk getting out of the monstery.
The Turn of the Screw.
1) Mrs. Grose, in balloon hat, rehearses Flora and Miles in bowing and curtseying.
2) Miles gets suggestive with a bottle, as Peter Quint, Miss Jessel, Flora and the Governess look on. Mrs. Grose has become a dinosaur.
3)”Nowhere,” with Jessel and Quint carrying on melismatically in front of home movies of them misbehaving on the grounds while alive. The inflated guy will suddenly pop, revealing the Governess beginning “Lost in my labyrinth…”
Siegfried immediately leaped to mind, so I’m gonna say Parsifal.
Because of the smiley in the first picture, and the general feel of depressing operetta fun my guess is das Land des Lächelns (Kann es möglich sein??)
I saw this production and wouldn’t have guessed it even.
Agree with #24.
Photo 1: Harlequin, Truffaldino, and co.
Photo 2: Bacchus arrives on a dinosaur (this is Greek mythology, after all) while Najade, Dryade, and Echo look on
Photo 3: “Ein schones war” Ariadne sings about her affair with Theseus (displayed on the screen?)