Regie within reach

That trio of delicious candy-covered ladies tempted you to all sorts of wrong guesses, cher public, but nobody could figure out their relationship to each other, which would surely have given the game away.

They’re cousins, you see, and the work in which they appear is Offenbach’s La Périchole as presented at the Komische Oper Berlin, directed by Nicolas Stemann.

Here’s a glimpse at the whole thing, wrappers and all, in action.