General Tso’s regie
It truly is a red-letter day when La Cieca manages to propose a Regie quiz that fails to elicit from you clever pusses even a single correct guess. Last week’s opera was something of a double whammy, as it consisted of a modern piece produced in a non-traditional manner. Enough suspense: the work was Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers as performed at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen, directed by Karoline Gruber.
Shall we try again?
And remember, cher public, the usual rule applies: if you actually recognize the production, then stay quiet while others guess!
Gabor Otvos: The Odd Couple – Special Victims Unit
Rigoletto
1. Gilda in Act II just before she’s returned to her father
2. The Duke eats Chinese food while someone in his court suffers terribly (Monterone? Ceprano?)
3. A scene involving Sparafucile.
La Boheme.
Turandot?
Andrea Chenier?
Les parapluies de Cherbourg
The Queen of Spades?
Siegfried?
or is it one of the Faust operas (Berlioz, perhaps)?
Andrea Chenier came to mind right away but have no idea why. Staged during the Chinese cultural revolution?
Kat’a Kabanova?