The March of Regie
Our Own Ercole Farnese exercised his sharp eye for detail almost before La Cieca got the most recent Regie quiz posted: within 25 minutes he identified the work in question as Norma. We have video of the controversial Peter Mussbach staging after the jump.
And now, back to our game. What’s the opera presented here, cher public?
Andrea Chenier.
1. The downtrodden and “Improvviso”
2. Singing “La Mamma Morta”
3. “Son io”
I agree with the earlier posters who say Rienzi.
If I were a young firebrand director, and a company asked me to do Rienzi, I would immediately think of moving it Argentina in the 1950s…with the sister Irene as Evita. It just makes so much sense.
1. One of the crowd scenes of Act I.
2. “Don’t cry for me, Richard Wagner.”
3. The big finale of Act III.
You made it too easy with the two puppets. Without that frame, I would have never thought about Norma.
This one, going by exclusion, must be Rienzi, since it’s clearly Rome.
Les Troyens?
L’incoronazione di Poppea
1. Signor, deh, non partire
2. Hor che Seneca è morto
3. Pur ti mirò
Mercadante: Orazi e Curiazi?
There’s an R in the last pic, so I think it’s a Rienzi. Or anything Wagner for that matter. Maybe Lohengrin.
AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS.
I’m completely ignoring locale and going with gut: Don Carlo!
1) The first act Carlo-Elisabetta duet
2) “Tu che le vanità”
3) The auto-da-fé
Rienzi