Regie vincitor!
By popular demand, the return of the Regie quiz. La Cieca will not ask you to identify the above photo because the identity of the opera is so obvious. Instead, use your reasoning powers on the photos after ths jump. As always, cher public, if you actually recognize the production, stay quiet while others guess!
Could it be the Marriage of Figaro?
OK. I guess Figaro was too obvious and it would hardly be a Regie production looking like that so I will say Elektra, although the singers look a little slim for the Strauss opera but hey, what the hell?
Looks like Figaro so it must be Wozzek. Ah, it’s good to have the regie quiz back.
I saw this one and am busy writing a review – well when I’m not being led astray by other things on the net. Definitely interesting.
Too many women for Figaro. I’ll have a punt on Falstaff.
I know what it is too – I recognise one of the singers and have even seen the promotional video.
It looks like Figaro, so it can’t be. It could be something that owes itself to Figaro’s legacy, like Rosenkav or Rake’s Progress, or it could be another Figaro opera, like Ghosts of Versailles, La mère coupable, or I due Figaro.
Ghosts or La mere were exactly what I was thinking.
I think this is an 18th century Don Carlo, with a Mezzo Don Carlo.
Pic 1 is Elisabetta & Eboli as BFFs in the Garden
Pic 2 is Elisabetta & Don Carlo a la rococo.
Pic 3 is the auto-da-fe scene in an enlightenment setting.
that is so SATYAGRAHA
spiderman FTW.
Dear Cieca
If I told you that I saw your entry on the blogroll right after I finished watching the trailer of that same production you wouldn’t believe me, would you!?
Someone I met yesterday in Amsterdam said that show was disappointing — which obviously tickled my curiosity: regie is not meant to please everyone, so… But since that opera is not on my fave-list, the trip is excluded…
Did you see the Tcherniakov’s Carmélites (DVD in your window)? That’s theatrically a very disturbing production without containing anything shocking. It’s the Tcherniakov’s twist to the drama that kicks you out of your comfort zone. He took away the pathos in Salve Regina, and instead of guiding the tragedy to its inexorable end he decided it give it a humanistic epilogue. If you know that opera, it becomes very disturbing but eventually you’ve got to give it to him… That production seems to be low key when you see it but turns out to be a very healthy intellectual experience.
Sorry for getting off the topic.
Cheers everyone!
It’s obviously SADKO.