regie run riot

This has to be the strangest staging of a Puccini opera ever!

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Ah, La Cieca must have her little joke! But seriously, cher public, the previous Regiequiz depicted (as so many of you divined) Parsifal.

But wait! If this is Parsifal. . .

. . . then surely this must be Parsifal as well, right?

Or, if not . . .

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