Comments on: Regie, pagliaccio

By: Quanto Painy Fakor

Quanto Painy Fakor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:20:28 +0000

Definitely: Die Meistersinger with Wolfgang Brendel as Sachs and American tenor Erin Caves as Walther.

By: Baltsamic Vinaigrette

Baltsamic Vinaigrette — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:31:04 +0000

Bloody hell, Baritenor – if this turns out to tbe the Dutchman that I am going to see in Amsterdam this week (Uusitalo, Naglestad, cond. Haenchen), the government will fall.

Oh. Hang on. The Dutch government fell at the weekend.

Anyhoo, I console myself that that is definitely NOT Uusitalo – who seems to have recovered in full from his pre-Met-Tosca ailment – in the final pic.

By: kashania

kashania — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:50:07 +0000

Bravo, Monty!

By: La Cieca

La Cieca — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:14:42 +0000

Domestic mots still rule!

By: Sir Ferris

Sir Ferris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:01:57 +0000

Die Blume von Hawaii? That was going to be my next guess!!

Anyhow, it looks like there’s some kind of public/private vibe going on here, of the kind that used to be so popular in the world of Grand Opera. Boris? Don Carlo?

I’ll go with Simon Boccanegra, though. Loved the Bernstein allusion!

By: LogeLizard

LogeLizard — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:34:38 +0000

Wild guess: CARDILLAC

By: operalover9001

operalover9001 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:48:48 +0000

Boheme!
1. ‘Mimi! Mimi! *fake melodramatic crying*’
2. ‘Addio, senza rancor’ with Marcello’s really ugly murals in the background
3. ‘Che gelida manina…’

By: kashania

kashania — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:29:05 +0000

Dialogues des Carmelites

1. The death of Mme de Croissy.

2. Blanche and Constance discuss Croissy’s passing.

3. Mme de Lidoine thinks about how to make a best first impression before he first scene.

By: Straussmonster

Straussmonster — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:41:07 +0000

In the spirit of my nom de guerre, this is clearly Elektra:

1) Klytemnestra, whose clothes express her inner turmoil, has a nervous breakdown on the stage.

2) Orestes and Elektra in the Recognition Scene, as some of the renegade maids watch from inside the Palace of Atreus.

3) Aegisthus has a hint that something is going wrong, but has to fix his makeup first.

By: pernille

pernille — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:35:04 +0000

Carmen revised
1. Escamillo unexpectedly killed by the bull before the final act
2. Carmen and Don Jose talk it out and separate “senza rancor”
3. Don Jose sits and thinks about “what might have been”

By: iltenoredigrazia

iltenoredigrazia — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:29:06 +0000

Porgy and Bess

By: brett

brett — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:49:34 +0000

This has Mozart written all over it. Nozze? Flute?

So, obviously, it’s Die Tote Stadt.

By: TristanShout

TristanShout — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:08:59 +0000

Orfeo (Gluck)

By: wenarto

wenarto — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:51:00 +0000

LULU ?

By: rofrano

rofrano — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:48:34 +0000

did someone say Falstaff yet??

Falstaff!

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:35:57 +0000

It’s Verdi’s Otello !

1. Esultate!!!
2. the love duet ending Act One
3. Domingo goes baritone again, here singing Iago’s Credo.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:45:49 +0000

The second picture looks awfully like Ariadne auf Naxos.

By: Krunoslav

Krunoslav — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:02:23 +0000

1. The Death of Bioris

2. Marina and The Pretender Dmitri in the Polish Act Garden Scene

3. Pimen in his cell writing just one more line (courtesy of Max Factor)

By: Zerbinetta

Zerbinetta — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:57:50 +0000

Don Giovanni? Second picture is Masetto and Zerlina’s wedding.

By: MontyNostry

MontyNostry — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:15:08 +0000

Are the figures in the windows dressed as giant insects? Maybe they strayed in from Cunning Little Vixen.

By: soubrettino

soubrettino — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:06:42 +0000

Rigoletto?

By: Valmont

Valmont — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:35:33 +0000

I’m going with Street Scene.

1) Lonely House

2) Ain’t it awful the heat…

3) Frank Murrant after the murder

By: La Valkyrietta

La Valkyrietta — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:27:50 +0000

A gay version of ‘Faust’? The last photo could be, “Ah, je ris, de me voir si laide dans ce mirroir!”

By: MontyNostry

MontyNostry — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:13:11 +0000

‘She said the preconcert prayer had a relaxing effect on performance nerves. “When you put yourself in God’s hands, it’s very calming,” she said.”

I guess the orchestral players for the Met’s ‘Attila’ are feeling wonderfully calm, then.

By: MontyNostry

MontyNostry — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:10:25 +0000

There was a Pelleas in Salzburg and London with Golaud and Pelleas in Pagliaccio gear, wasn’t there.

By: Nerva Nelli

Nerva Nelli — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0000

Probably PARIDE ED ELENA.

Meanwhile, from what major urban newspaper’s Arts and Leisure section is this clip:

“The one ripple of discomfort comes from Mr. [Manfred] Honeck’s practice of praying in his dressing room with some orchestra members before concerts.

Some musicians, including Jews in the orchestra, “were made uncomfortable by it” to varying degrees, said Louis Lev, a violinist. Mr. Lev, who is Jewish, said he was not one of them, however.”

By: manou

manou — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:51:39 +0000

I know what this is – anybody who claims to have worked it out is either a (warped) genius or a (brazen) cheat.

By: eckermann

eckermann — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:09:31 +0000

I was hoping for a staging of the three Church Parables, but this looks far more like ‘Billy Budd’.
1. Act 1 scene 3. This is Squeak. He has just been disarmed by Billy and knocked down onto the deck. Chorus: ‘He took them ear-rings of mine. Always at it! Sneaking swine.’
2. End of Act 1. This is the Novice tempting Billy: ‘Look at them! Touch them! They’re for you!’ I am guessing that Billy is to the right in pink, but could not swear to this. The Novice appears to be more conventionally attired.
3. A perhaps over literal imagining by the director of ‘starry Vere’. Final moments of the Epilogue as he contemplates the events of 1797 ‘…when I Edward Fairfax Vere commanded the “Indomitable”….’ [slow curtain].

By: Baritenor

Baritenor — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:37:22 +0000

Actually, scratch that, I’m going with HOLLANDER in the circus:

1. The Stuermann drifts off to sleep singing endless johojohos.

2. Erik and Senta have it out in the courtyard of Daland’s apartment building, evesdropped on by the chorus in clown gear.

3. The Dutchman, durring “Die Frist ist um”, puts on clown make-up to “rejoin the human race.” He will later tear off his read nose when he proclaims his identity as the Flying Dutchman.

By: MontyNostry

MontyNostry — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:34:10 +0000

Rigoletto too obvious?