Kukla, Fran and Regie
La Cieca is going to claim doyennical privilege here and say that the correct answers for last week’s Regie quiz are disqualified on grounds of a) silly guess and b) prior knowledge. Otherwise how could she go on with these Regie quizzes, knowing that such wildly unlikely images would immediately shout “Die Meistersinger” to you? Anyway, more “unlikely images” after the jump. 
There’s something slightly Slavic to the costumes, and to the backdrop in 2. For that, and the wackiness, I say “The Love for Three Oranges.”
Benevenuto Cellini?
The Love of Three Kings????
Not sure why I think that only that Erdgeist’s response set off the train of thought and there are three possible kings in the second photo and it sort of medieval and Sicilian puppet and.. hell I don’t know Love of Three Kings!!!
A very early example of Regie: the 1951 English Opera Group production of Britten’s ‘realization’ of ‘Dido and Aeneas.
1. Belinda and Chorus: ‘Haste, haste to town!’
2. First Sailor (left) encourages the gentlemen of the chorus to decamp: ‘Take a bouzy short leave of your nymphs on the shore…’
3. ‘Thy hand, Belinda..’ Dido mounts the pyre. However, pyres were still subject to rationing in 1951. The spirit of Henry Purcell looks on aghast.
1. The Amme greets the Kaiser on his way to hunting
2. Barak and the Three Watchmen
3. The Kaiserin and keikobad/kobad/kobad…
of course it’s TOSCA
Well, #3 has to be TOSCA Act 1, with a female Cavaradossi painting Angellotti.
The first two photos look like Ping, Pang, and Pong of Turandot. That’s Turandot on the ladder staying far away from the unwashed earthly creatures.
The Burning Fiery Furnace, Britten.
I just noticed the initials over the proscenium of the little stage in no. 2. They could be B.B. (so my Britten guess stands) but they might be B.E. (search me) or B.G. — so could this not be Boris Godunov?
Benedictine & Brandy or maybe Beatrice & Benedict.
Oooh, I like the Benjamin Britten idea. Maybe “Gloriana” (a piece I know nothing about) since the gal in photo #1 looks like Elizabeth I?
No brainer: Amahl and the Night Visitors.