Comments on: Regie in mufti

By: ogiovetti

ogiovetti — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:02:59 +0000

Though it may seem too obvious, my money’s on Rigoletto:

1) Caro Nome
2) Questa O Quella
3) E Amabile Inverno

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:32:24 +0000

A Review of this production…..The 3rd picture tells the story.
All those ….shadows! It is an n opera called ‘The Night They Shot The Lighting Director’. Very effective regie production of it, too from the West Baden Krautsin Bullsagarten Company with Hilda Kraussteiner & Gottloeb Lobotomoni. They decided to re-cycle and revamp the only previous version: and that was also a one night stand production of it. The stage props were retrieved out of opportunity shop discard bins, where they had been prematurely stupidly sent, after the gala. The Sets were gaudy playpens for children,you find in mega marts .In fact they came from one such establishment- at a steal – to clear- no return price. This Opera company knows how to survive the economic down turn. Something that: the NYCO and the Met over there, should think of adopting similar methods?

Looking again at the pictures of this opera’s short return premiere : ‘Someone out back though, is not cycle peddling hard enough to provide adequate stage electricity. They will also have to go, I suspect- after tonight. And finally I report a good time was had by all the locals. As they walked off with a bonus frankfurt and roll, (from the delectable tiled cafeteria situated inside the audiotorim) out in to the cold, after this exciting performance.

By: soubrettino

soubrettino — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:20:23 +0000

Fidelio, probably.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:41:24 +0000

mirrors?!
it’s the Herbert Wernicke production of “Les Eponge-Loofas de San Antonio”

By: MonkeyBoy

MonkeyBoy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:42:30 +0000

I was thinking Rusalka. The second picture appears to be an above water / underwater split.

The title leads me to agree with 22, or possibly a Don Carlos.

By: No Expert

No Expert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:28:25 +0000

Hippolyte et Aricie?

ACT I: Phedre longs for Hippolyte

ACT II: Thesee descends into the underworld

ACT IV: Phedre reveals the truth to Thesee (whose hair was singed off during his trip to the underworld) while a condemnatory Diana looks on.

This only works if those are feathers in the second scene. However if they are giant paper roses, then this is Carmen.

By: tannengrin

tannengrin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:31:24 +0000

At first I thought it was the Pajama Game, but that’s not an opera (well not yet, maybe Rufus is working on it?).

So I think this could be die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail, with a not-so-blonde Blonde. For some reason I read the second picture as a big old walk-in closet.

By: miss kitty litter

miss kitty litter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:50:12 +0000

Well, it seemed obvious to me (though I appear to be the only who feels this way) that the production was one of Götterdammerung.

#1 – Brunnhilde basks in Siegfriedian afterglow (Prologue)

#2 – Hagen assembles the Gibichungs (Act 3)

#3 – Brunnhilde confronts Siegfried and Gutrune (Act 2)

By: ellerveira

ellerveira — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:21:16 +0000

One heretical question: what’s the good of a staging if you can’t figure out what opera it involves? Isn’t a staging supposed to support an opera or be related to it? I think there is something addle-brained here. Fashionable for sure, but addle-brained.

By: orlatromba

orlatromba — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:47:00 +0000

I think it’s Hoffmann.
1) Les oiseaux dans la charmille
2) Va pour Kleinzach!
3) Tu ne chanteras plus?

By: Hans Lick

Hans Lick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:45:54 +0000

It’s obviously Orfeo!

1) Orfeo thinks about how much fun he’ll have now that he’s a happy bachelor. Or Euridice relaxes on the Champs Elysees.

2) The blessed welcome Euridice. Or the furies bar Orfeo’s way. As in the Met production, the choruses are performed without change in costume or aspect.

3) … uh … Is it too late to suggest this is Plutone, Prosperina and Cerbero in the Monteverdi Orfeo?

I actually think the last scene is Lohengrin Act II that sneaked in here by mistake!

By: Krunoslav

Krunoslav — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:51:59 +0000

1. Dyer’s Wife

2. Kaiser: “Falke, mein Falke!”

3. Kaiserin, Barak, Dyer’s Wife

By: devon.c.estes

devon.c.estes — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:42:30 +0000

Hamlet?

1) Ophelia’s mad scene

2) Act II finale with Hamlet in the rafters singing ‘O Vin’

3) Ophelia with the King and Queen

By: Gouilliard

Gouilliard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:10:54 +0000

Sonnambula

By: Dawn Fatale

Dawn Fatale — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:29:19 +0000

Cenerentola

By: Zerbinetta

Zerbinetta — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:11:43 +0000

Arabella

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:57:05 +0000

Zar und Mary Zimmermann! Yuck Yuck! Good one.

By: Sanford

Sanford — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:14:01 +0000

There’s only one person (female) standing by in the last scene; it’s her reflection in a mirror that makes it appear as a second bystander.

Since the second photo looks like a rehearsal hall, I’m guessing it’s Zar Und Mary Zimmerman.

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:57:42 +0000

Andrea Chenier?

1. La mamma morta
2. The trial scene…GUILTY!
3. The final duet with Gerard and the Jailor standing nearby

By: dallasuapace

dallasuapace — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:03:00 +0000

Luisa Miller?

By: La marquise de Merteuil

La marquise de Merteuil — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:49:28 +0000

La finta semplice

By: arepo

arepo — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:20:45 +0000

Vivaldi got here before me. Except that the last scene is Radames being caught giving away the information (see the two-way glass window where Amonasro was listening?)
If it isn’t “Aida” it should be.

By: Idamante

Idamante — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:50:19 +0000

Louise.

By: Vivaldi

Vivaldi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:38:34 +0000

Aida
1 Ritorna Vincitor
2 Triumphal March
3 O terra Addio

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:58:28 +0000

Die Meistersinger von Gruenland

By: Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:57:55 +0000

Das Liebesverbot. We have: scene in prison (or convent); citywide revelry; and Isabella’s meeting with Friedrich.

By: justanothertenor

justanothertenor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:29:06 +0000

Madama Butterfly?

By: operablogger

operablogger — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:00:50 +0000

I believe the trapezoid-shaped table gives it away: Britten’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Or maybe it’s “Dinorah” — I always get those two confused.