Kitchen sink regie
Smartly done, Jim, for last week’s quiz was indeed “Lear, with the little dogs taken literally.”
This was the Reimann opera, as performed at the Komische Oper in a production by Hans Neuenfels.
Moving on, then. What’s this blonde’s problem?
I know, I know! It’s Billy Budd!
I’m guessing Madama Butterfly.
First pic is the letter scene with Sharpless.
Second pic is Butterfly singing “Un bed di”
Third pic is Act 3 with Sharpless, Kate in the background and Pinkerton coming up the hill. Not sure where Suzuki is though.
I was thinking Butterfly too. Either that or Trouble in Tahiti with a strange, ensemble ending.
Is it the late Frances Farmer in a road company COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA?
Clearly Cosi Fan Tutte.
Spelling error here….that was “Un Bel Di” in the second pic….I’m sure you all know what I was trying to say……
Of course this is an Onegin.
It looks like a relatively standard production of The Consul (I mean, it has an oven. A real regie production would have her sticking her head into a giant replica of Gorbachev’s navel at the end). And since The Consul has already been guessed, I’ll say…Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk?
I agree. Probably too standard to actually be The Consul.
I just want to say that the production featured in the last “regie” quiz (Neuenfeld´s Lear) was hailed by the german critic as the event of the year in the operatic landscape; and according to the descriptions it should really be a fascinating experience.
butterfly sounds indeed plausible for this one…
Looks like Tristan und Isolde to me. Confrontation in the first act, anticipating Tristan’s arrival over coffee in the second, Liebestod in the third with Brangäne and Marke looking on and Tristan inexplicably standing.
He is going out to have some fun, she is waiting, then he is dead.
gotta be Götterdämmerung.
Faust?
1. A duet between Faust and Marguerite.
2. Marguerite singing one of her arias.
3. The garden scene.
Werther