Regie, bangles and beads
Smartly done, cher diseur de bons mots: Monsieur Hoffmann rightly guessed last week’s puzzler to be Don Giovanni. The production by Doris Dörrie is currently playing the Staatsoper Hamburg.
Elsewhere, the Regie never stops, as you will see after the jump.
I’m thinking Peter Grimes for some reason.
I haven’t the foggiest but picture 1 looks like Wenarto’s Little Black Dress moment!
MEISTERSINGER done as an Imperial Court.
1. Kothner takes the roll call.
2. The spirited Prentices in full regalia.
3. Walther (left) and Eva (with gun) in the Final Scene.
A glam rock RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
1. Leocadia Begbick tries to keep order in Mahagonny when Jimmy acts out in Act I.
2. “Oh show us the way, to the next whiskey bar…”
3. Jimmy gets arrested when he can’t pay his bar tab in the Mahagonny swingers massage parlor.
Madama Butterfly.
1. The wedding gets interrupted in Act One.
2. End of Act Two…they all see the ship in the harbor.
3. Pinkerton returns in Act Three to take Trouble back home, but Butterfly’s relatives try to stop him.
Love it!
a. Canzone del Velo
b. The “trees” in the Garden Scene prelude
c. The hunky Flemish deputies (Don Carlo in glasses) amidst the hostile Auto-da-fe crowd
Could this be a trick question? Could this be another production of Don Giovanni?
The omni-present chorus make me think of Orfeo ed Euridyce. Anyway, whatever opera it is, I like the look of it!
Un ballo in maschera. Ulrica in the first photo. Second photo, I have no idea. Third photo, the chorus is cursing Renato.
Turandot?
1. One of Turandot’s ancelle enforcing “Silenzio, ola!”
2. Chorus watches Prince of Persia on his way to the scaffold.
3. “Parla, parla, parla!
Il nome, il nome!”
This sounds right to me, though the first pic could be (a particularly glamorous) Liu about to commit suicide.