A whole month it’s been since our last Regie quiz, when the opera depicted was admittedly a lesser-known work, Rossini’s La scala di seta. More tomfoolery in sleek modern interiors may be found in this week’s quiz, after the jump.
1. Alberich (in wheelchair) confronts Wotan outside Fafnir’s cave.
2. Siegfried at evening’s end sings of his romantic solitude to the (sleepwalking) bartender, who turns out to be Brunnhilde.
3. Later, while she cozies up to the cage that held the Forest Bird in Act II, he celebrates their impending union, while Erda checks in, just to be sure no one needs a hypo. As if!
I’m going to say Salome, if only because the champagne bottles bring to mind the Met’s Salome. That being said, I’m sure it’s some opera with which I’m completely unfamiliar.
I feel like this must be Götterdämmerung—we got a sword, we got a bird, we got a naïve hero lookin’ all feebleminded—but I really have no idea what would be going on in any of these scenes.
The last time I saw a bird cage in a production, it was part of Nathan Gunn’s costume from the Magic Flute. I love the part where one of the 3L’s take the codpiece off and uses it as the lock.
The first thing that comes to mind, for some reason, is Ullmann’s Kaiser von Atlantis. Either that or Wozzeck. The problem is, the only opera I can think of that would have an actual Cross-dresser in it is Le Grande Macabre.
Remember, cher public: if you know the production, don’t blurt it out. This is meant to be a guessing game.
Cosi or maybe Hoffmann?
Looks like Fledermaus
“Taeubchen das entflattert ist…?” So you have the bird-cage
1st caption – duet Eisenstein / Falke (he had an accident when he got drunk and dressed as a bat)
2nd caption – 3rd act prison scene? Alfred & Frosch
3rd caption – 1st act – Rosalinde, Alfred and Adele.
The whole thing takes place in a hospital ward because of Falke’s accident? or Eisenstein’s?
I’m going to guess RAKE’S PROGRESS just because you used the word “tomfoolery”. Certainly the bottom photo could be Bedlam.
With the ‘champagne’ hint I thought this would be Don Giovanni, but it looks more like a ‘Faust’ to me.
Unless it’s Othello.
The operatic version of Silence of the Lamb starring Hanibal Lechter.
I’ve never guessed before, but this time I was moved… hope I’m right! fingers crossed.
La forza del destino.
religious hermits, sexy nurses… ce sont presque la même chose, n’est-ce pas?
Don Giovanni
Andrea Chenier !
1. L’Incredibile is up to no good in Act 2.
2. The Act 2 duet between Chenier and Maddalena.
3. “Idia Legray!!!!” “Son io!!”
Rigoletto
1. Opening scene
2. Questo quella
3. La donna e mobile
Is that a sword in the bartender’s hand in the second picture? If so, it’s Die Walküre!
1. Wotan challenges Alberich to a chess match during the staged prelude of Das Rheingold and the scene plays out in the cycle’s remaining preludes.
2. Hunding and Siegmund during happy hour.
3. Siegmund frees the Forest Bird (making an early appearance) from its cage. Logically, in this production, Sieglinde is a nurse.
Siegfried!
1. Alberich (in wheelchair) confronts Wotan outside Fafnir’s cave.
2. Siegfried at evening’s end sings of his romantic solitude to the (sleepwalking) bartender, who turns out to be Brunnhilde.
3. Later, while she cozies up to the cage that held the Forest Bird in Act II, he celebrates their impending union, while Erda checks in, just to be sure no one needs a hypo. As if!
A nurse, an empty bird-cage, some guys arguing about something. Die Frau Ohne Schatten.
or maybe
Die Schau Ohne Falken?
It’s got to be an opera with lots of drinking songs in it, so maybe it’s something by Verdi. Macbeth?
I hate Regie quizes? quizzes?
Must be Pelleas et Melisande
1. Arkel and Pelleas
2. The scene in the cave
3. The death of Melisande
Hamlet? Military uniforms, insanity, booze, broad swords…
the first picture would actually be a cool Grand Inquisitor/King Phillipe scene from Don Carlo (with the inquisitor in black leather of course.)
I’m going to say Salome, if only because the champagne bottles bring to mind the Met’s Salome. That being said, I’m sure it’s some opera with which I’m completely unfamiliar.
Where do you find these La Cieca?
I think it could be Rigoletto as well but mainly for the first pic, which I can see as being between Sparafucile and Rigoletto.
If no. 2 is “Questo e quella” and the last one “La donne e mobile”, then is that (a cross-dressing) Maddalena as the bartender??
I feel like this must be Götterdämmerung—we got a sword, we got a bird, we got a naïve hero lookin’ all feebleminded—but I really have no idea what would be going on in any of these scenes.
“Wozzeck”
The last time I saw a bird cage in a production, it was part of Nathan Gunn’s costume from the Magic Flute. I love the part where one of the 3L’s take the codpiece off and uses it as the lock.
The first thing that comes to mind, for some reason, is Ullmann’s Kaiser von Atlantis. Either that or Wozzeck. The problem is, the only opera I can think of that would have an actual Cross-dresser in it is Le Grande Macabre.