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!
Nobody told me Francesca Zambello had been engaged to create a live-action version of “What’s Opera, Doc?”.
Clearly, this is the Nuria Espert production of Verdi’s La Traviata:
Photo One – Violetta adds new depth and meaning to ‘Sempra Libera’
Photo Two – Germont pere et fils
Photo Three – Flora and her guests cavort, while Alfredo fumes over Violetta’s apparent betrayl
I’ll have to go with Les Troyens.
The Brunnhilde looks like Susan Anthony and the guy with the suit looks like Toby Spence. Anyway we have here Rigoletto, Wotan, Violetta (with the camellia), Cio Cio San, Escamillo and Carmen (seated on the right). WTH?
This is a new pastiche that will allow companies that do only mainstream repertory over and over to get all out of their systems in one night and maybe devote some of their seasons to doing some unfamiliar works that it might very well be interesting to explore.
Someone likes the Stefan Herheim Tannhäuser, a previous Regie quiz production: http://parterre.com/2010/03/10/regie-round-the-clock/
(I’ve actually already read about this production so I won’t say anything.)
I have no clue, but I know I’m going to be embarrassed when the answer is revealed.
A septet of (mostly) self-conscious opera singers, two women…Schweigsame Frau? I didn’t think that had a big chorus in it, though.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Norma