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 Island.
And now, cher public, your guesses at this next set of images? Read more »
Yet another of the institutions of parterre, the Regie Quiz, seems to have slipped away from us, temporarily at least, with the most recent puzzler over a month ago. And yet, with all that time to ponder, not a single member of the cher public identified the work correctly! It was La Damnation de Faust, as produced for the Staatstheater Stuttgart by Andrea Moses. Don’t worry, parterriani, you’ll have plenty of chances to guess the Regie in the new year, starting right after the jump. Read more »
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. Read more »
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.
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.
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.
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.
It takes an Ercole Farnese to recognize Verdi done the Regie way, and he was exactly right that the opera in last week’s quiz was Un ballo in maschera. He did miss the mark on the character depicted: the heavily made-up figure in the sunglasses and plumed hat was not Ulrica but Riccardo (Wookyung Kim). The venue for Elisabeth Stöppler‘s staging was the Semperoper Dresden. Another guessing game, after the jump.
Cher Public