Comments on: Regie round the clock

By: jim

jim — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:23:39 +0000

Parsifal

1. The flower maidens
2. The knights of the grail learning that Amfortas won’t unveil the grail
3. Amfortas pleading to be killed

By: squirrel

squirrel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:58:13 +0000

I think it’s Barbiere di Siviglia based on the moon, the guitar, and (most of all) the campy crowded ensemble blocking.

By: MirtoP

MirtoP — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:48:37 +0000

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”?

By: Cara Speme

Cara Speme — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:40:04 +0000

It is clearly I Lombardi.

By: LittleMasterMiles

LittleMasterMiles — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:24:57 +0000

My first thought was Meistersinger, on further reflection (and since Meistersinger is already taken), I’ll take the Zauberflöte reference as a clue that it must be DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN:

1. Keikobad nicht, aber sein Bote!
2. Esset ihr Büder und lasset euch wohl sein!
3. Der Kaiser werd zu Stein!

Either that or Guys and Dolls.

By: yappy

yappy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:16:33 +0000

>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…)

By: LogeLizard

LogeLizard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:14:03 +0000

LES HUGUENOTS with benediction of swords and Urbain as a sort of WAC?

By: MontyNostry

MontyNostry — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:59:52 +0000

Of course, the Regie visual style known to initiates as Hunde-Frühstück.

By: arepo

arepo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:47:48 +0000

Andrea Chenier

By: BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK

BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:23:55 +0000

Whatever it is and whoever it is, despite the fact that it is visually somewhat cluttered there is obviously something happening in each scene. That intrigues me and makes me wish to know more. I can cite a hundred videos in my collection of which that is NOT true.

By: Straussmonster

Straussmonster — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:18:15 +0000

I’m pretty sure I know who the director of this spectacle is, just from the visual style, but I wouldn’t want to spoil La Cieca’s delightful game.

By: eckermann

eckermann — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:58:59 +0000

As requested earlier we have moved on to Tippett and the Flute references would point to ‘The Midsummer Marriage’.
1. The He-Ancient has tripped up Strephon and sent him crashing to the ground. ‘O what a wicked thing to do/Trying to break Strephon’s leg./ Have you no sense of the proper care/For a dancer’s trained body?’
2. Jennifer has an attack of wedding nerves but Mark and the Chorus try to restrain her. Jennifer: ‘Don’t touch me…How can I break free from you all?’
3. King Fisher (one of the characters with a pointy stick)is about to kill Mark…but drops down dead himself. ‘Mourn not the fall of a man that goes down/Leaving the room for someone beautiful.’
(As Anna Russell said, ‘I’m not making this up, you know’.)

By: iltenoredigrazia

iltenoredigrazia — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:02:16 +0000

This time I got it! Don Giovanni

1- Zerlina and Masetto’s wedding. See Masetto (toreador) on the floor.
2- The serenade. See Donna Elvira being held back.
3- Don Giovanni being sent to hell.

By: quoth the maven

quoth the maven — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:51:50 +0000

Trovatore

1) The abduction from the convent
2) “Deh, rallentate, o barbari”
3) “Di quella pira” (with the chorus for some reason attacking Manrico at “all’armi”)

By: Baltsamic Vinaigrette

Baltsamic Vinaigrette — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:49:51 +0000

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.

By: Olivero is my Drug of Choice

Olivero is my Drug of Choice — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:12:43 +0000

Die Götterdämmerung

By: kashania

kashania — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:21:06 +0000

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.

By: Blanche Tourterelle

Blanche Tourterelle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:07:57 +0000

Stiffelio..

1) Stiffelio and Rafaele duel;
2) Lina in the graveyard;
3) Final scene…but the congregation does not buy the forgiveness idea.

Unless it’s Carmen.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:37:11 +0000

Looks like Carmen to me

By: lorenzo.venezia

lorenzo.venezia — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:18:43 +0000

Penso di si!! The distinctive Venetian portico made me think so, and I agree about 1 and 2, but 3 still confuses me…

By: No Expert

No Expert — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:59:45 +0000

Don Giovanni?

1. Giovanni kills Donna Anna’s father
2. “Deh vieni alla finestra”
3. Giovanni is dragged to Hell

By: Will

Will — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:54:40 +0000

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?

By: OlivePratt

OlivePratt — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:53:12 +0000

ballo

By: tannengrin

tannengrin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:49:30 +0000

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

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:46:06 +0000

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.

By: Dawn Fatale

Dawn Fatale — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:44:57 +0000

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.

By: traumgekront

traumgekront — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:07:31 +0000

Fidelio was my first instinct too.

By: La Valkyrietta

La Valkyrietta — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:18:39 +0000

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’.

By: La marquise de Merteuil

La marquise de Merteuil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:23:32 +0000

Meistersinger? As everyone else guessed Tann.

By: BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK

BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:08:12 +0000

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?