O happy Regie!
Color La Cieca impressed! Friendly Fritz guessed correctly that the opera depicted in last week’s Regie quiz was Franz Schreker‘s Die Gezeichneten — as produced at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo by Graham Vick. Following the jump, a glimpse of what that production looked like in action.
For this week’s Regie quiz, though, you’ll have to content yourself with still pictures. Which opera is this?
Something about the last picture says ‘Mozart’ to me, so I’m going to say a very strange Cosi.
Funny cause I thought the same thing: Mozart, but Giovanni instead.
On a similar route, I’m going to go with Ghosts of Versailles. The mixing of times and dark, dour scenery lead toward Ghosts.
Le Nozze di Figaro.
1. Non so piu
2. Cosa sento
3. Act IV Finale
La Fanciulla del West, because why not.
The first picture is from The Life and Times of Catherine the Great; the second from The Rag Trade; the third from Escape from Gitmo.
Maybe Fidelio. The third picture could certainly be. The blonde is Leonora and the guy in the hard hat Rocco. The second picture then has Leonora-Fidelio and Rocco. But the first picture defeats me.
Gotterdamerung.
It’s TURANDOT !
1. Liu sings Signore, ascolto. The horse represents… something.
2. Calaf sings Non piangere, Liu as Timur (in the hard hat) waits.
3. Act 3, Ping, Pang, and Pong tempt Calaf with a bevy of beauties, while Liu and Timur try to intervene.
I’m also thinking something Mozarty, but I’ll go slightly different and say it’s Haydn. Il mondo della luna perhaps? The third picture does make a depressing moonscape.
A production of GIANNI SCHICCHI in which everyone called in “ill.”
#1. That’s Buoso Donati dead on the floor, but the announced Buoso was ill so his understudy Christine Brewer at last has a role in which she doesn’t have to move much. Stephanie Blythe as Zita is kneeling beside her/him. Stephanie isn’t sick, but she is a little horse.
#2. Rinnuccio’s understudy, Gary Lehmann, and the understudy Lauretta, Leah Partridge, realize they’ve been taken to the cleaners, and the understudy Schicchi, Tom Fox, is about to throw a fit.
#3. The understudy Notary, David Pittsinger, who has to rush back and forth across the plaza as he is simultaneously singing Lancelot in the revival of HMS Camelot, is guided to the bed by the undertudy relatives, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, Grumpy, and Sidney (she’s the one with no Peter.)
“Stephanie isn’t sick, but she is a little horse.”
Betsy, I love you! How many centuries have you been waiting to use that on a public forum?