Our most recent Regie quiz provided a rare occasion on which La Cieca can perform her own victory cantata the celebrate the defeat of the nimble minds of the cher public, as no one was able to identify the mystery production as our dear friend Tosca! This unfamiliar makeover of the diva opera par excellence transpired at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt as directed by Stefano Poda. Perhaps an even moodier mise-en-scène may be found in our next quiz after the jump. Read more »
When Quanto Painy Fakor said “Hamlet,” ianw2 replied, “You know what, you may be right.” Well played, gentlemen! The production in question was in fact Thomas’ Hamlet, as directed by Olivier Py for the Theater an der Wien, complete with a naked Stéphane Degout!
No such treats, perhaps, in our next quiz, but La Cieca hopes the cher public will puzzle out the identity of the opera after the jump. Read more »
Our most recent Regie quiz yielded lots of guesses from the cher public, many of them very clever indeed. But—perhaps understandably—nobody hit on the right answer, which is Handel’s Deidamia, as directed for De Nederlandse Opera by your occasional fellow parterrian David Alden. There’s a trailer for this extravagant show, plus the next Regie quiz, after the jump.
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…
Well, if there’s a lesson to be learned from our most recent Regie quiz, cher public, it is this: trust your gut.
Some, though certainly not many, guesses at the most recent Regie quiz, but no one quite hit upon the identity of the opera in question, Handel’s Alcina.
Heavens, what with breakdown of the site a couple weeks ago, the Regie quiz has been forgotten for all too long!
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