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Continental regie

Some good guesses on our previous Regie quiz, cher public, but nobody hit the bullseye. Admittedly, you were aiming at a rather teeny target, namely Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, directed by Jürgen Flimm at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. However, La Cieca is awarding special mention to DharmaBray for a clever and witty pasticcio that sounds vastly more entertaining than The Enchanted IslandRead more »

Regie a la carte

Well done indeed, ianw2, first of several to identify our previous Regie quiz as a depiction of Reimann’s Lear. The production at the Hamburg State Opera was directed by Karoline Gruber.

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Edgy Regie

Our most recent Regie quiz was something of a curve ball, cher public, depicting as it did the little-known Donizetti farsa I pazzi per progetto. And yet cosmodimontevergine more or less hit on it, only slightly garbling the title. All things considered, the judges will count this one as correct, and the contestant will receive the full measure of points. (This staging by Martin Kusej recently graced the Opernhaus Zürich.)

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Come fly with Regie

Well done, semira mide! The “incomplete voyage” you derived from last week’s Regie quiz is indeed the one portrayed in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, as reimaigined by Mariame Clément for De Vlaamse Opera.

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Alles Gute zum neuen Regie!

Yet another of the institutions of parterre, the Regie Quiz, seems to have slipped away from us, temporarily at least.

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On the Regie again

Indeed those were Cretan windmills seen in the most recent Regie quiz, and once that fact was established, manou and MontyNostry quickly closed the case: the opera is indeed Idomeneo, as performed at the Tiroler Landestheater in a production by Peer Boysen. You’ll find more to puzzle over after the jump.

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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.

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Regiepfeffer

Among a number of very amusing guesses (bravi tutti!) at last week’s Regie quiz, our Camille actually was not too far off. No, it wasn’t Menotti, but it was a children’s opera, a new work called Mikropolis (“Die abenteuerliche Insektenoper von Christian Jost“) as performed at the Komische Oper Berlin. A more standard piece (though, obviously, in a less than standard production) follows the jump.

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Salve Regie

The little gray cells of operalover9001 were functioning at full capacity last week, raciocinating that the fuller-figured soloists must imply a heavier sing. And, yes, the mystery opera was a very hard sing indeed, Les Troyens at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, directed by David Hermann.  This week’s quiz promises to be as difficult to guess as Énée is to perform, so cast your eyes past the jump.  

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I get the regie when it rains

Nothing pleases La Cieca better than stumping the panel. As such, she will turn all the cards over and reveal that our most recent Regie quiz depicts Chabrier’s L’étoile, as presented by Oper Frankfurt, directed by Our (Occasionally) Own David Alden. A snippet of Alden’s show follows the jump; then you can mull over yet another set of production photos.

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