Regiematazz
Will was the first cher pube to firmly commit to Don Pasquale, and as such he will be counted the winner of our most recent Regie quiz.
Special thanks to eckermann, who earned “Le Mot du Jour” for his meticulously detailed (if totally off-base) analysis.
So what’s up with all the tip-toeing through the tulips below?
Land of Smiles?
Roberto Devereux? Lizzy and Bob on a Polynesian cruise liner?
I’ve been wracking my brain. I was even ready to suggest MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE at one point. But I’m going to make COSI FAN TUTTE my official guess, since it’s the only opera I can think of that really seems to fit all three images:
1. Dorabella (I’m guessing) languishes as the uniformed Ferrando prepares to leave for the front.
2. During the Luau-style nuptuals, Dorabella faints in Guglielmo’s arms as “Bella vita militar” sounds in the distance.
3. Don Alfonso and Despina plot and flirt.
I’ve been wracking my brain. I was even ready to suggest MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE at one point. But I’m going to make COSI FAN TUTTE my official guess, since it’s the only opera I can think of that really seems to fit all three images:
1. Dorabella (I’m guessing) languishes as the uniformed Ferrando prepares to leave for the front.
2. During the Luau-style nuptuals, Dorabella faints in Guglielmo’s arms as “Bella vita militar” sounds in the distance.
3. Don Alfonso and Despina plot and flirt.
It’s clearly Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, in the rare German translation.
1. Act II, scene 3. Blitch sings “I’m a lonely man, Susannah”, fetchingly attired in a naval officer’s uniform.
2. Act II, scene 2. Susannah faints at the end of the revival scene while the chorus of Hawaiian Pentecostals look on.
3. Act I, scene 4. Blitch confronts a gleeful Mrs Mclean over Susannah’s potluck dish at the church supper. Mrs McLean declares, “I wouldn’t tech them peas o’ her’n”.