Regie Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
Congratulations LogeLizard for so adeptly pinpointing Manon Lescaut as the solution to our most recent Regie quiz. The production was by Graham Vick for the Teatro la Fenice, and we have a glimpse of this regie in action after the jump.
Now, to work. Can someone please explain the following Panic at the Disco?
My comment to the video: Riso insolente! Great with Fava and chianti.
“It’s a naive domestic risotto without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.”
Gianni Schicchi???
Looks light-hearted so I’ll go with l’Italiana in Algeri. But what fun if it turns out to be Lucia.
Don Giovanni
Amuze booche!
I would say Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Regarding the Manon Lescaut, I was told there were HUGE problems between Graham Vick and the cast. The tenor, Walter Fraccaro, absolutely refused to wear short pants in the first act. The second cast tenor, though, had to wear them.
Good for you, Cieca. How welll I know that line of James Thurber’s!!! I
have his cartoon, original cutline and all, hanging above my kitchen bar. It
often applies
looks like don pasquale.
therefore it must be macbeth or otello.
CAPULETI
Cunning Little Vixen?
I’m going with Don Pasquale or possibly Gianni Schicchi. Obvious but they would work.
Clearly, it’s Le Nozze di Figaro!
the 2nd photo just screams Pasquale, but that second woman in the casket picture poses a problem. So I’m gonna go with Il Matrimonio Segreto
I think it’s Goetterdammerung
It’s always Goetterdaemmerung
Anything I would have guessed off the top of my head has already been said, but how many productions would be improved by the addition of that ginormous disco ball? I can’t take my eyes off of it.
Traviata !
1. The party at the beginning of Act I.
2. Act 2, wherein Violetta (thinking she will marry Alfredo) taunts Germont pere with the news that she will soon be his daughter-in-law.
3. The big finale, as we see Violetta getting ready to crawl into her coffin. Annina, Germont pere, and Alfredo are there to assist her when it’s time to occupy the coffin.
it’s obviously salome.
That first picture would make a great Venusberg from Tannhauser…
Or Die Schweigsame Frau which is of course Don Pasquale without the catchy tunes but with the extra woman in the shape of Morosus’s housekeeper.
I’m going with Schicchi. It was my first thought seeing the pictures and before reading the comments.
Rusalka (again)?
At last a production which brings out the hitherto unsuspected qualities of ‘Owen Wingrave’.
1. Partying at Spencer Coyle’s military crammer. The director taking a cue from the stage direction ‘Lechmere sippng his sherry excitedly’ and Mrs Coyle’s revelation: ‘So many boys come here and I rejoice in all. After the long day with their books they come to me and charm me with their new-found grown-up ways.’
2. Later at Paramore Kate Julian (here not Dame Janet) attempts to flirt with Sir Philip (here not Peter Pears): ‘How good to see you well enough to dine, Sir Philip.’
3. The denouement. Kate confesses all to Lechmere, Sir Philip and Mrs Julian: ‘It’s my fault. I shut him in there. I came back, I was sorry, and Owen–he’s dead!’
Figaro or Schicchi
I gotta get to these sooner, someone always beats me to my guess!
I think Schicchi too. But the real reason for my posting is this. Too good to lose in the depths of an older thread …
Carmen as complete car crash.
One of the greats. Thank you Monty, now my status on FB!
Bravo.
I mean, it was a joke huh? Tell us more.
The tenor may once have been a singer; as for
Carmencita…….what can one say? Poor guy -
he looked like he was going crazy!
Oh. My. God.
It sounds as if the vodka and xanax she slammed down in her dressing room has already kicked in, with a vengeance.
At least he can sing. The voice is a rather far south, but he seems to have had something at some time, however far in the past that may be.
I assume La Cieca chose Manon Lescaut in honor of the N.O. Saints in the Superbowl? Right?
This is actually the only surviving recording of the first mash-up in music history. Called “Carmen Luniere” it was a hit in Berlin for a week until it was deemed no longer avant garde enough.
Excellent! La Cieca always smells a winner!
Well Steblianko was once able to sing, but who is his Carmencita? This can’t be the wreck of a once-splendid voice, can it?
I think it’s il Trittico.
1. Barge replaced by disco.
2. She’s married to god, right? Principessa is played by ugly bald woman in man’s clothing.
3. They couldn’t afford a costume change for the soprano for the third opera.
Monteverdi! Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria! all at the manse in Ithaca, with Penelope in bridal gear to confuse all the suitors.
Gosh. Thank you, La C. I am honoured—as were Lord Britten, Sir Peter and Dame Janet.
That’s exactly what I thought, but you beat me to it. The disco ball is obviously the moon, commented on during the first scene.
(Plus the title made me think immediately of Salome)
Steblianko! He was wonderful in 1987 when he sang, I think, Herman with the Kirov/Maryinsky in London. Still pretty good here, I thought — especially in view of his antagonist’s, er, performance.
Lucia, somehow. It’s just gotta be.
It’s an opera with a bride in it – that narrows it down to 300 (since La Cieca is sticking to common repertory, right?).
Since the bride has no beard, I’m going with Lohengrin.
1. Brabantines and Saxons join forces to fight the heathen Hungarians (Act III, scene 2).
2. Elsa persuades King Henry of her implausible innocence – of fratricide and just about everything else. (Act I)
3. While Ortrud and King Henry complete the laying out of little Duke Godfrey in his coffin, Telramund eyes Elsa suspiciously. (Act I)
… unless this is a very sick production of Jenufa.