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A Regie with a view

by | 1:15 am | Oct 9, 2011

It takes an Ercole Farnese to recognize Verdi done the Regie way, and he was exactly right that the opera in last week’s quiz was Un ballo in maschera. He did miss the mark on the character depicted: the heavily made-up figure in the sunglasses and plumed hat was not Ulrica but Riccardo (Wookyung Kim). The venue for Elisabeth Stöppler‘s staging was the Semperoper Dresden. 

Another guessing game, after the jump.  

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  • cosmodimontevergine says:

    Though at first I thought this production might be a pain in the butt, I came to realize it was the work of a star regisseur.

    on October 12, 2011 at 4:15 PM
  • palamede92 says:

    This is of course the French chef-d’oeuvre !
    1) the old Arkel sniffing oxygen to survive
    2) Pelléas throwing the Melisande’s ring (this is a modern staging) in the flowers garden
    3) Pelléas after his-her sexual surgery (“Call me Mz now”), Arkel (with his oxygen), Golaud with his pipe (he likes Amsterdamer tobacco), Mélisande (she prefers cigarettes), Geneviève and the little Yniold fast asleep on the bench.

    Do I win ?

    on October 12, 2011 at 5:10 PM
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