Two weeks the cher public have had to ponder our most recent Regie quiz, and yet none of the usual suspects were able to work out the obvious clues. A Victorian ingenue and her doting father are interviewed by an Italian fascist in a Rita Hayworth wig? A gymnastics-themed wedding is interrupted by terrorists and an earthquake? Why, whatever could that be but… Rossini’s Tancredi, as performed at the Theater an der Wien — under the supervision of the aptly named director Stephen Lawless? (“Von der Inhaltsleere des Regiekonzepts können solche vordergründige Gags allerdings nur kurz ablenken,” snorted one Kritik.)

Now, everyone, let’s really kick off November with bang by guessing our next production with your wonted aplomb.