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Nun zäume dein Regie, reisige Maid

regie_07_18_01The 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.

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Note once again, cher public: if you recognize the production, please sit out this quiz and let others exercise their imaginations!

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