Have I stayed too long at the Regie?
Right you are if you think you are, cher public! Our most recent Regie quiz did indeed depict a new production of Wagner’s Rienzi, directed by Philipp Stölzl. (Photo credit: Bettina Stoess im Auftrag der Deutschen Oper Berlin)
No handy dome-shaped landmarks in this next quiz, cher public, so La Cieca will leave you to it: 
I say Faust. The first pic is of Faust and Mephistopheles with the “youth” in the background. In the second pic, Faust is seducing Margarite, and in the third, they are in a prison.
I have no idea, but I will guess Lohengrin just because of the swan.
THE EMPEROR JONES?
Clearly, La Cieca’s tricking us by posting pics of three difference productions.
1. Il Trovatore — Act II, Di Luna
2. Ariadne — just because
3. Die Walküre — Ride of Valkyries with the dead heroes watching in the background.
Gotterdammerung, IMO. The second shot could be the immolation scene. The third photo looks like it could be the end of Act II. But you got me on the clowns.
If it’s not MANON LESCAUT, it should be:
Act 1: Inn Scene “Tra voi belle” etc.
Act 2: Manon and Des Grieux
Act 3: Embarcation scene, with cargo loading of fallen women
Billy Budd!!!!
1. Captain Vere remembers his time in a boarding school preparing for a stint in the Royal Navy.
2. Billy – in drag – is lusted after by Claggart
3. Well come on now – Billy is hung! And the same can often said for the barithunk playing the title role
An excellent guess. And I’ll help you out with the first one.
1. “Schläft du Hagen mein Sohn?”
Manon Lescaut:
1) Act 1, Des Grieux, Edmondo and the students
2) Act 2, Manon & Lescaut
3) Act 3, shipping those whores to Louisiana
Tales of Hoffmann
1. Giulietta – that’s a swan gondola in the background
2. Antonia
3. Olympia
Les Troyens, with a trojan swan. pic 2 cannot be anything but Nuit d’ivresse.
Pic 2 looks like a reject set from Act I of the Bondy Tosca.
Hey, great minds (see my comment one or two just below), etc. We must’ve been typing at almost exactly the same time!
I’m especially convinced we’re right because of 2 small details: She’s in the same (horrible!) dress in #2 and #3, and the guy I/we assume is DG in #1 has changed from his school uniform into something resembling sailor garb in #3.
Porgy and Bess
I say Lonhengrin – the swan in pic one.
Don Carlos, God knows why.
the first photo made me think of zauberflöte…
aida.
1st, “se quel guerrier”
2nd, radames & amneris (or aida)
3rd, triumphal march
More Britten it would seem. This time ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
1 Puck and the Fairies ponder the ‘lovely Indian boy stolen from an Indian King.’
2 Tytania and Oberon squabble: ‘I have forsworn his bed and company (but have constructed this lovely tangerine backdrop to remind him of what he is missing).’
3 The rude mechanicals put on their Regie version of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ but Hyppolyta prefers the Zeffirelli production: ‘This is the silliest stuff that I ever heard (or saw).’
Now can we move on to Tippett or Walton?
Don Giovanni?
oh for the lovvah god!!
faust.
Rigoletto?
Parsifal !
1. Guernemantz chews out Parsifal for killing the swan in Act I. That’s Kundry cowering on the left.
2. A prettier Kundry tries to seduce Parsifal in Act 2.
3. The consecration of the Holy Grail…end of Act III.
Medea.
1. Creon tempts Jason with thoughts of leading the Corinthian army (and navy).
2. Medea puts on something slinky and tries to remind Jason of better days, on the voyage back from Colchis.
3. A band of angels comin’ after me – but Medea and Jason ignore them and live happily ever after by the seaside. (Thank you, Melina Mercouri.)
I will be pissed if it is “Manon Lescaut” because I wasn’t fast enough to be #1. That last picture is surely the boat scene.
Ah well,,,
Did anyone say Meistersinger yet?
1) Walther, David, apprentices in Act 1
2) Eva & Walther in Act 2
3) hmmm….not sure if it’s the brawl or the Act 3 finale
Tristan?
1. Act III – Tristan’s delirium in Kareol
2. Mild und leise…
3. Act I on the ship, arriving to a rather bizarre Cornwall.
That’s not an opera; that was my New Year’s Eve party.
Hey, on the bright side it could be Massenet’s Manon.
Cosi?
I think this has to be Rigoletto. 1) The beginning of Act I? 2) Gilda at home with the Duke 3) Act II, with Rigoletto and Gilda on the right.
pagliacci?
The Bartered Bride?