Turn the Regie up to eleven
No shortage of interesting guesses, but, alas, none of the cher public were only MontyNostry was able to identify last week’s Regie quiz by the three images chosen. The opera, in fact, was Pikovaya Dama, and that lady taking a nap in her corset in the third photo is none other than the title character. Some film of this production after the jump, followed by your next challenge.
The production, by Peter Konwitschny, is currently in the repertory at the Graz Opera.
And now, try your hand at identifying this classic work.
I see windmills, so it must be
Mascagni’s Lodoletta!!!
1. Antonio and Flammen in Act One as they discuss buying the red wooden shoes.
2. Flammen and Lodoletta in Act Two.
3. The final moments as Flammen discovers Lodoletta frozen in the snow, here represented by fire.
Sorry but these are Greek windmills, not Dutch, so it necessarily follows that….I am completely stumped.
Idomeneo? Is that Ilia looking unhappy and nostalgic and Arbace with the wig? (I must say that I thought Hollander when I saw the girl with the windmills.)
Aha! Cretan mills, of course.
I am a cretin.
Madame manou,
Thou art ‘una cretese’ not ‘una cretina’. Do not mock thyself!
Molto cortese signora Camille.
Der Fliegende Hoellander!!
1. shipboard with the boys
2. Senta dreaming away her life
3. Hoellander raising hell!!!
Yeay!! I won it this time, FER SURE!
I don’t know, but this looks interesting from one of those cities where the orchestra is in the middle of the action. As for the Pique Dame, Konwitschny has always been such a sick puppy. I guess if you can have rats in Lohengrin in Bayreuth then rabbits are par for the course now in Austria. At least it’s living theater.
La Cieca: MontyNostry called it last week (comment 4)
yes, I just came from those parts and noticed it as well. lettuce give credit where credit is due, doyenne!
Thank you, Edward George. I think it’s a first for me!
Comment 4 somehow always escapes my attention. La Cieca will be more careful in future!
..not always, Cieca…
Perhaps I am out of favour with La C because I dared to disagree with that nice Mr Jorden about Popsy as Violetta.
Lèse-cécité, sans aucun doute.
As Simon and Garfunkel sang, “Cécité, you’re breaking my heart”.
Freischutz?
Don Carlo(s)?
1.Carlo and Rodrigo in their duet.
2.Talking to Elisabetta about the low country and showing her the windmills.
3.Auto de fe
Me thinks Les contes d’Hoffmann:
(1) Hoffmann and a baritone Nicklause escaping from Giulietta’s abode – a war-torn refunge
(2) With Olympia
(3) Dr. Miracle
rats!
Why rats, louannie?
I thought them was in Lohengrin?
I am disconcerted because I had already written out my Les contes d’Hoffman scenarios.
refuge, not refunge!
…something says “Les Troyans” to me..
2.-Didon praising her wonderful City
3.- maybe, the sacrificial pyre, in the last Act?
Die Entfuhrung, perhaps?
1. Pedrillo brings Belmonte up to date in Act 1.
2. Traurigkeit ward mir zum Lose.
3. Osmin, during the Finale–Verbrennen sollte man die Hunde.