As La Cieca scours the web in search of new candidates for the Regiequiz, she sometimes is simply stopped in her tracks by a Konzept so new, so unusual and so innovative that your doyenne cannot help but shift her paradigm. Such a production is this Aida in (of all conservative places) Vienna.

Who ever would have thought to reset the action of this classic Verdi opera in present-day Manhattan, with Aida and Amonasro as fake-baked “other” from the far side of bridge and tunnel?

La Cieca welcomes your nominations of further examples of Bad Aida Makeup.