Regie within reach
That trio of delicious candy-covered ladies tempted you to all sorts of wrong guesses, cher public, but nobody could figure out their relationship to each other, which would surely have given the game away.
They’re cousins, you see, and the work in which they appear is Offenbach’s La Périchole as presented at the Komische Oper Berlin, directed by Nicolas Stemann.
Here’s a glimpse at the whole thing, wrappers and all, in action.
And now for this weeks quiz, which looks to be 100% sugar-free. Remember, cher public, if you actually recognize the production, mum’s the word.
Tosca
Not sure what the opera is, but that woman in #s1-2 needs anger management.
Clearly, this is the Hans Neuenfels gender-reversal production of Petra Grimes:
Photo One: Petra denies to Elwood Orford that she harmed the first apprentice.
Photo Two: Petra sings “Now the Great Bear and Pleiades”
Photo Three: Mr. Sedley tells Nadine Keene that he believes that Petra has killed the second apprentice.
A Poggia Turra: Look at all the hilarious situations in Opera we could come up with, if we reversed the genders in most of the operas. Just imagine operas like Tosca and Turandot for a start. it would be ‘a funny scream, every minute’.And would’nt the opera Parsifal have to start explaining a few new things?
I ain’t goin’ nowhere near “Turn of the Screw.”
I don’t suppose I could convince you (or myself) that it was another production of La Perichole?
Okay, my real guess is Dalibor.
Picture 1:…..
Uh, what happens in Dalibor again?
Okay, I’ll say it’s Idomeneo.
Picture 1: Elettra tells Idamante he’ll marry Ilia over her dead body. (or she receives from Idomeneo the joyful news that she and Idamante are heading for the mainland on the Mycenae Express)
Picture 2: Ilia meditates during the ritual invocation of Nettuno.
Picture 3: Zeffiretti lusinghieri.
Hans Lick, i love the way you don’t think.
There are certain sorts of people from whom disdain is a higher compliment than flattery.
Oh Hans, Honey, if you read that as disdain, I have got to clarify. By “not think” I meant that it emerged as a big burble, sort of Joycean in its spontaneity. You gave us something that was completely unpedantic, unauthoritative, unthought, and totally natural. Yay !
Lucia di Lammermoor.
It looks like a plausible Elektra, but I’m guessing Don Giovanni:
1. Leporello & Donna Elvira
2. Donna Anna
3. Masetto & Zerlina
I’m going with Tristan und Isolde though none of my explanations makes sense.
1. Despite the stone wall behind her, I’m going to say it’s the ship in Act I. Isolde is telling Kurwenal where he can shove it. (Her hair is frizzy because of the sea air).
2. Isolde is waiting for Tristan at the beginning of Act II while behind her, Marke and his men go off to the hunt. Though she’s combed the frizziness out of her hair, she’s still pissed.
3. Kurwenal comforts Isolde in the third act (she’s arrived through the back door and just thrown her coat on the kitchen table).
Carmen?
1)Carmen negotiating her release with Don Jose in Act I
2)Chez Lilas Pastia
3)Act IV – Tu ne m’aimes donc plus or somewhere around there.
I get a strong feeling of Verdi’s Macbeth.
1. Before the murder
2. Sleepwalking scene
3. Short duetto before “La luce langue”
Perhaps it’s HELLO, DALIBOR by Jerzy Herman?