Regie est de retour
The end of the summer has been a quiet time for new opera production, but La Cieca realized she’d left you all having on the most recent Regie quiz. Or not hanging so much, actually, because calatrava guessed it: Il barbiere di Siviglia, a production by Claus Guth. An all-new, insect-free quiz follow the jump.
I think this is the Ballad of Baby Doe, with the baby featured prominently in picture 3.
This is obviously the operatic adaptation of the film “Juarez.”
1 Juarez in nationalistic spirit brandishes the Mexican flag and protests the Belgian upstarts.
2 Carlota shows the first signs of her nervous breakdown.
3 Inspired by the final scene from Boris, the ill-fated Emperor faces a firing squad.
The title begins with the letter M
Okay, I’ll bite. Maria Stuarda
1) The baritone guy being duplicitous.
2. Elisabeth regales the courtiers with . . . with stories that can regale people.
3. This is probably Regale.
Far from it, but the last letter is a
The third letter is n
Montana?
Minnesota?
Many brave hearts lie asleep in the deep-a?
It’s a very old opera and the libretto was written by a person of very high station.
Is Mandragola an opera? That’s Macchiaveli.
I can’t believe La Cieca has not intervened. This is so unfair that I may not be able to sleep tonight.
How many syllables?
Can you do a “sounds like”?
I would love to pretend I just happened to know this, but Enzo’s clues and Wikipedia have given me the answer: Graun’s Montezuma, with libretto by Frederick the Great.
You got it. Now go to theoperacritic.com and you’ll see how I got it. Plus help from google.
aaahhh… in all his glory.
We’re done with this, Miss Cieca, ma’am. What can we play now?
I should be the last one to complain about spoiling the fun here – but at least my hint was considerably more oblique (noblesse oblique…).
Sorry all!
Your hint was in French. A lot of people here don’t speak French.
Google does…
….even more oblique then. Oops – oblique is French as well…
Google says that oblique is translated as oblique.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin oblquus.]
As I am an Old French (ish) this seems correct!
Also…no more obloquy please.
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Vivaldi’s Montezuma?