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!
Simple as pie. The moon in #1 and the Tiffany window in #3 suggest “Breakfast Tiffany’s.” By Henry Mancini. Then we have Queen Elisabeth in #1 and British flyboys with Vera Lynn lookalike in #2 which confirm that we are dealing with something British. The tightly pursed lips of the guy in center of #2 lead inexorably to DIDO AND AENEAS. A bit more laudanum, Doctor?
Meistersinger? As everyone else guessed Tann.
The chorus looks like a bunch of modern day huns, so I will guess this is ‘Attila’. In the first photo Odabella is getting her sword. In the second photo they are all astonished by the vision of the Pope and the apparition in heaven of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The third photo puzzles me a little, so I have a second guess, ‘Macbeth’.
La Cieca has perfected time travel and brought us back photos of the curiously overpopulated evening of 3 monodramas of NYCO next season.
1. Erwartung (there’s a moon, so it must be Erwartung)
2. Neither
3. La Machine de l’Etre.
La Gioconda!
1. The mob wants to kill La Cieca (the other one, not ours).
2. Barnaba serenades the crowd at the beginning of Act Two.
3. The Dance of the Hours.
Penso di si!! The distinctive Venetian portico made me think so, and I agree about 1 and 2, but 3 still confuses me…
there seems to be some slaying of operatic gods going on in pic 1. Is that a Tosca on the half-shell in the foreground? And certainly some magic flute imagery. And a fallen toreador, and some merry wives of windsor, etc. etc.
Regardless, I’m getting an Alpine vibe from this and I’m going with Guillaume Tell.
Or is it Pelleas et Melisande
ballo
My first thought was Ballo as well. The first pic is the actual ball, just as Renato has struck Riccardo. That’s Oscar in the second pic. And the third pic is from somewhere else in the opera.
For what it’s worth, the painted drop behind the first set is a copy of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s famous 1815 set for the first appearance of the Queen of the Night in Magic Flute. That doesn’t mean it IS Flute because I don’t get someone defending a fallen Toreador as being Flute. Something by Weber, perhaps?
Don Giovanni?
1. Giovanni kills Donna Anna’s father
2. “Deh vieni alla finestra”
3. Giovanni is dragged to Hell
Looks like Carmen to me