Waiter, there’s a fly in my Regie
Who better than Straussmonster to speak up at just the right time to identify Die Schweigsame Frau, a Barrie Kosky production at the Münchner Opernfestspiele. The “Walküre” in question is Aminta, in the person of the gallant and gravid Diana Damrau.
Following the jump, the ADD-rific trailer for the show, and then this week’s challenge.
And now, a presentation of the Entomological-Hysteric Theater:
Britten’s DREAM. Airy-fairy rubbish by a wet poofter.
Yikes! I agree with you Vicar!!!
Falstaff?
The second photo I believe depicts Parker Posey’s aria from the operatic version of Best in Show.
We both like soup… singing… and not singing.
I say it’s “Norma”….for no good reason. It just came to me.
You’ve heard of Tosca and Fosca? Now thrill to… Mosca!
First I thought Cunning Little Vixen. But now I am leaning toward Gotterdammerung in spite of the fact that they replaced my beloved fire with bug spray. “Quick Henry, the Flit!”
You beat me to it by mere minutes, Loge! Gotterdammerung it is. The first production to fully explore Wagner’s comic subtext. I was in stitches throughout.
Clearly, this is the Pier Luigi Pizzi production of Rossini’s masterpiece Semimaride:
Photo One – Marilyn Horne (in a REAL pants role) returns to the stage as the Ghost of Nino
Photo Two – Assur and Idreno compete for Azema’s hand, as Semiramide acts as referee
Photo Three – Arsace returns victorious from battle
Oops, SEMIRAMIDE
Your first spelling made so much more sense. Especially when I read it as Semi-marinade.
A semi-marinade? One cheek in and one out?
No, K. I was thinking that everyone involved in the regie was half-soaked.
Rigoletto!
Photo 1: Rigoletto sings about how he is renewed by returning home, but Gilda’s fragile figure is ominously surrounded by the spiderwebs of court intrigue!
Photo 2: fateful knocking occurs. The Duke is in bad-boy leather, Sparafucile wears a bee costume to represent his dangerous sting?
Photo 3: una tempesto in cielo, in terra un omicidio!
The first pic does rather scream Rigoletto but that guy isn’t in the second pic, which I would’ve assumed to be the quartet.
So, I’m going to say it’s Götterdämmerung.
1. Alberich
2. Hagen, Gutrune and Gunther (let’s just ignore the snail woman below them).
3. The Immolation. The gods are wiped out with a big can of bug spray.
Can’t possibly be Falstaff – too obvious. I agree with Lucy; it’s Rigoletto.