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People get regie

by | 11:02 pm | Feb 22, 2012

Heavens, what with breakdown of the site a couple weeks ago, the Regie quiz has been forgotten for all too long! The answer to the previous edition (which as La Cieca recalls it, someone guessed correctly) is Schoenberg’s Von Heute auf Morgen, as produced by John Fulljames at the Opéra national de Lyon. And now, something more from “Gestern,” if you get my drift.

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  • Quanto Painy Fakor says:

    This is definitely verdi’s FALSTAFF either that or Watch on the Rhein with Jane Fonda

    on February 22, 2012 at 11:17 PM
  • Ilka Saro says:

    The lute gives it all away, of course. This is an all white production of Joplin’s Treemonisha, scored for an early music ensemble.

    1. The cast waits onstage in trepidation as the orchestra plays the overture.
    2. Treemonisha’s mothers sings the tale of how she found Treemonisha as a baby.
    3. The people of the village ask Treemonisha to lead them.

    on February 23, 2012 at 4:58 AM
  • justanothertenor says:

    Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria?

    on February 23, 2012 at 6:48 AM
  • WindyCityOperaman says:

    Yes, Mme Cieca, it was I who thought it was the Schoenberg – but I wasn’t completely correct as I thought the two other pics were part of a triple bill, namely Trouble in Tahiti, followed by The Telephone followed by the Schoenberg.

    The current production is some rethought version of either Weisgall’s Esther or Bellini’s Norma (top: Pollione and Adalgisa; middle Norma and Clotilde at her hideout; bottom is the finale).

    on February 23, 2012 at 7:16 AM
  • rysanekfreak says:

    Lana Del Rey in Anna Bolena?

    1. King Henry tries to convince Jane that everything will be okay.

    2. Anne “sways” during the duet with Percy.

    3. Lana does the final cabaletta. The ghost of Smeaton is in the lower left corner, starting up another ballad.

    on February 23, 2012 at 8:14 AM
  • sidessa says:

    POPPEA, of course!

    on February 23, 2012 at 8:26 AM
  • Sir Ferris says:

    Ruslan and Ludmila.

    on February 23, 2012 at 11:11 AM
  • WeillFan says:

    How about RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY (or AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY)?
    1. Jimmy tells Jenny to “Skip the undies” in their first intimate encounter.
    2. “Alabama Song”
    3. General Act II revelry as Jenny sings, “In this life you must make your own bed…”

    on February 23, 2012 at 1:00 PM
  • BillysBuddy says:

    Hänsel und Gretel, in a production deconstructing gender:

    1) The Father (in a reworking of the score) upbraids Hänsel for breaking the jug before sending the children out into the woods. Regisseur’s comment: “Warum soll es, daß der Feind muß immer die Mutter sein?”

    2) Hänsel resists the lure of the Witch’s 100% refined sugar trees. Gretel (at left) has clearly not.

    3) Hänsel dreams of 14 zombies and transcending gender boundaries.

    on February 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM
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