8-bit Regie
Even if no one guessed the correct opera on our most recent Regie quiz, Our Own Batty Masetto did the next best or perhaps even better thing by devising the silliest scenario. And it’s not like it was easy, either, since the work in question was Auber’s Le Cheval de bronze, as directed by Frank Hilbrich for the Komische Oper. We remain (apparently) in the exotic East for our next quiz, after the jump.



Why does Martha Moedl look like Leonardo di Caprio? Are they related? (See above. Or left. Or maybe right. Or soemwhere.)
I was wondering why Clemens Krauss had weird resemblance to Zero Mostel, in the birthday clip from windycity..lol!
Betsy! At last! I’ve been saving this just for you:
Now THAT’S how you do the Hokey-Pokey !
He wishes!
This is Donizetti’s “Imelda de’ Lambertazzi” — because it is.
1] Imelda and her friends.
2] Bonifacio tries to see Imelda. Not so much!
3] Imelda’s father, Orlando Lambertazzi, holding forth, with il Cane Lambertazziano in the background.
Yes, Moffo cured me of Nadja
I was going to say Die Frau ohne Schatten or Parsifal, both of which I was beaten to… I just hope it was recorded, what ever this is it looks like so much fun…
I know we just had Rusalka, a Regie or two ago….but could it be?
I am thinking Die Zauberflote..
!) Pamina
2) Tamino trying to slay the dragon or whatever
3) Papagano and Papagana
Or it could be Elektra.
1-Elektra and the maids in the courtyard.
2-Elektra in her crazed fury has turned into Godzilla, and that is Orest coming home who is being recognized by her: insert Godzilla noise here.
3-Orest in his final ritual murder costume before he goes in and does the murderous deeds