Nun zäume dein Regie, reisige Maid
The unthinkable has happened: La Cieca managed to stump the panel. No one of you (or all of you acting as a committee) could guess that last week’s Regie quiz represented a production of Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, as produced at the Nationaltheater Mannheim by Joachim Schlömer.
This week’s puzzler is not exactly a bread and butter work either — but (ahem) at least it’s an opera.
Note once again, cher public: if you recognize the production, please sit out this quiz and let others exercise their imaginations!
Talk Opera? I just don’t remember a chorus or this elaborate a production.
is this a live production and an expansion of Sutherland’s Who’s afraid of opera?
A hilariously meta and literal production of The Love for Three Oranges? The Guy in the Suit = King of Clubs, Pagliacci = Truffaldino, Belle from Beauty and the Beast = Princess Clarissa, Cio Cio San = Fata Morgana? The idea that is not bread and butter gives it away I think. This was an opera I saw in all of the “100 Greatest Opera” books I had growing up, but rarely heard of an actual production of, and always found it kind of fascinating as a result. Why is it a great opera if no one ever does it….
I HAD thought about the Paradies production being an oratorio, though I thought about Messiah of Matthaus-Passion (duet for two female voices)
As for the current regie quiz, might it be Weisgall’s adaptation of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author? Perhaps not.
Google Tranlate interprets the title of this thread as “Now your bridle Director, roving Maid”. I’m assuming that should be bridal.
I’m saying The Mikado
1. Katisha
2. Nanki-Pooh/Pooh-Bah or Pooh-Bah/Pish-Tush
3. Finale
Most everyone looks like they’re having fun, so I’ll guess an operetta or two.
Perhaps the party in “Die Fledermaus” was a fancy dress costume doing, which could explain all the nifty international costumes.
YEAH, IT IS DEFINITELY FLEDERMAUS ACT II – LOL on the last photo, and on the third photo is act 1 where they sing their duet, photo 1 is the Ungarische Graffin herself, klange der Heimat!
lA Viaggio a Reims
If it wasn’t for the third photo, I’d probably hazard a guess and say it was Siegfried, with Brunhilde in the first photo and Siegfried and Mime in the second photo. I’m stumped by the last photo, which has Siegried and Wotan in it but it also has Rigoletto, Violetta, Cio Cio San and Escamillo in it so I have no idea what opera this is.
Could it be it Die lustigen Nibelungen, by Oscar Straus?