Regie round the clock
Bravo Monsieur (or Madame) 79CXR for your guess in the most recent Regie quiz. The work depicted is indeed Béatrice et Benedict, in a production for the Opéra Comique directed by Dan Jemmett. The staging, La Cieca regrets to say, was not taken in with pleasure; critiques are headlined everything from “The enterprise overall does a disservice to the cause of Berlioz” to “Berlioz entre Guignol et les Monty Python.” Let’s hope this week’s puzzler got better notices!
I smell a Tannhauser. 1) Tannhauser wields his sword in Venusberg, saying he’s tired of, well, wielding his sword. 2) during the song competition he sings after Wolfram about how much he loves doing the deed. Everyone is shocked and disgusted. 3) Elisabeth discovers him after he emerges from Venusberg.
Then again, it could be Lohengrin, too. 1) Lohengrin kills Telramund. 2) “Mein vater Parisfal, tragt seine Krone!” 3) Elsa wants to know his name, he’s already in the thralls of self-induced ecstasy.
Don carlos? Seems the Damsel in distress on pic 1 could be Elisabetta having a conniption when Carlos raises his sword to his father.
Pic 3 could be right after the Per me giunto. Pic 2 is anybody’s guess. The lost act that Verdi composed for the American premiere but was discarded?
>The lost act that Verdi composed for the American premiere but was discarded?
Why of course. Carlos sings the would-have-been-famous Sentimental Rebellion Ballad (the reason being the American premiere tenor demanded a proper aria of his own) and Posa and Elisabeth go “Oh no don’t spoil it all!” in the background while the autodafé audience is thrilled.
(I wantd to guess DC too…)
That’s colorful. I’m guessing Zauberflöte because of the pyramid and temple.
I have a hunch it’s La Juive. Even though I’ve never seen the opera, this is what it looks like in my dreams.
Ooh I want to play! I guess Forza del Destino, because, um, there seems to be a vaguely Spanish theme, and perhaps the gypsy-ish lady in the first picture is Preziosilla.
LOUISE
I can’t even begin to guess the opera, but I’m seriously wondering why there’s a production of “The Nutcracker” going on stage left in the first photo. Is there some kind of backstage-at-a-busy-opera-house thing going on here? Is Mary Zimmerman involved?
That’s no Nutcracker – that’s the traditional backdrop for The Magic Flute, surely?
Not that I think it’s that, given the prominence of the male chorus here. I’ll go with Faust, though I suspect I’ve been beaten to the correct(and rather different) answer already.
Well, looks like a Christmas tree to me over on the right (stage left), with a “Nutcracker” Act 1 party guest lady standing in front of it. But then there’s that “Carmen” stuff going on in front, and…. So it must be: “The Fiery Angel”?
Is that Captain Von Trapp singing Edelweiss in the second picture?
I see a Fidelio in there, bigtime. #2 is Ha, Welch ein Augenblick, and #3 is the Finale. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say #1 is ‘Hat man nicht’
Fidelio was my first instinct too.
This HAS to be Tannhauser. So it must be Meistersinger.