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Regie est de retour

Der Barbier von SevillaThe 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.regie_08_23_01regie_08_23_02regie_08_23_03

49 comments

  • tannengrin says:

    I think this is the Ballad of Baby Doe, with the baby featured prominently in picture 3.

  • cosmodimontevergine says:

    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.

  • enzo says:

    The title begins with the letter M

  • BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK says:

    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.

  • enzo says:

    It’s a very old opera and the libretto was written by a person of very high station.

    • BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK says:

      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”?

      • PirateJenny says:

        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.

  • BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK says:

    We’re done with this, Miss Cieca, ma’am. What can we play now?

  • manou says:

    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!

  • kashania says:

    L’incoronazione di Poppea

  • Melot's Younger Brother says:

    Vivaldi’s Montezuma?