Two weeks later, and the drollery just keeps a-drippin’ in the competition to provide some explanation for a rather curious opera scene depicting a lady apparently trying to drown a chambermaid in a hotel bathtub. The snappiest comeback, in La Cieca’s opinion, issued from wotan_in_inman, “We’ll disguise ourselves to fool both the Count and Figaro. I’ll put on your clothes and you put on this bathtub.”
Well, okay, the actual opera in question is Aida, as produced at the Staatstheater Nürnberg by Jens-Daniel Herzog.
Now that’s cleared up, let’s get back to the serious business of guess-the-regie.
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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
