Well, NachtundTraume buzzed in first with all eight names in the correct order for the “Mon coeur” quiz. Since this week’s Regie seems already to be a wash as a guessing game, La Cieca will try to keep you entertained with yet another performance of the celebrated selection from Samson et Dalila. Can you identify […]
You can’t get anything past Our Own tannengrin, who almost immediately identified Simon Boccanegra as the subject of the most recent Regie quiz.Â
Eight Dalilas, courtesy of Our Own Sanford. Can you identify them? Mon coeur contest
That deucedly clever Bridget Jones was the first to guess the correct title for our previous Regie puzzler: Cavalli’s La Calisto it was! So now let’s all put on our thinking caps and decide which opera this might be: A REMINDER: if you have seen this production, please don’t blurt it out: the point of […]
Cher public, you very nearly let La Cieca down with your guesses on last week’s Regie quiz. Until neiln007 rode to the last-minute rescue, nobody recognized Les Troyens among the white pantsuits and grand pianos. (The production, by the way, is from Stuttgart and directed by Joachim Schlömer.) And now, let’s take a look at […]
Our most recent Regiequiz was no match for the little grey cells of Monsieur RMP, who deduced right off that the opera in question was Il Turco in Italia. And now, let’s take a look at another opera, its identity perhaps obscured by modern costuming. Â
Guesses poured in for our most recent Regie quiz, but correct reponses were few and far between. The opera is in fact Martin’s Una cosa rara, and (credit where credit is due) the handsome though bewildering photographs were by Ken Howard. A more familiar title graces the quiz this time around. The imagery, however, is […]
It took Bridget Jones practically no time at all to guess the correct answer to our most recent Regie quiz: the opera depicted was indeed Die Walküre. So now can you tell La Cieca which opera is being performed here? And do remember, everyone: guesses only! If you know the production, sit this one out!
Congratulations to Rosina Daintymouth for her identification of last week’s Regie as Intermezzo (Richard Strauss). This week’s Regie quiz may not be much quite so challenging, so La Cieca is going to offer you only two production photos. Remember, guesses only — no cheating!Â
Our most recent Regie puzzler was telecast tonight, but La Cieca thinks her cher public will need no more than a sound clip and a review from the production to make the identity of the work plain: Friedrichstadtpalast meets Christopher Street Day: Alles, was hier nicht glitzert, ist nackte Haut. Otto Pichler hat supersexy Choreografien für die durchtrainierten Körper […]
It took 60 guesses and a hint or two, but one of the cher public did indeed guess the opera depicted in the previous Regiequiz. Congratulations to mafketis, who somehow managed to see Il trovatore lurking behind the Hercule Poirot drag. The production of the Verdi warhorse was directed by Philipp Kochheim for the Staatstheater […]
As our dear Krunoslav hinted so wittily, our previous Regiequiz depicted a production of Die Bassariden. La Cieca reminds all her cher public that, as always with these little quizzes, please do not blurt out the answer if you actually have seen (or otherwise recognize) the production. The point of the game is to guess […]
Here’s another (and very different) crop of that production photo of Cecilia Bartoli. You provide the caption. La Cieca will get you started: “L’amore di Fay Wray.”
Yes, you’re all right. The opera in the last quiz was in fact Roméo et Juliette, featuring hunkentenor Leonardo Capalbo in the tighty whities. Speaking of which, whatever might this opera be?
Congratulations to Vanderdecken, was first to identify all eight singers correctly in Sanford‘s quiz. Our wandering Dutchman will have an amazon.com gift card to help him pass his next seven years at sea. So who, you ask, were our eight lovelies? Watch and learn! [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/9yOB_kFHJQ0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
La Cieca’s old, old, old friend Sanford writes:Â
As several of you informed La Cieca (some in no uncertain terms) our most recent Regiequiz was a bit dodgy — the opera represented was hardly a standard repertory work, and the stage direction was fairly straightforward. Richard “Wallpaper” Jones directed this production of Gerald Barry’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, a Bremen […]
Another “Name that Regie” quiz for you, cher public. Remember, if you have seen this production (or know the photos), don’t blurt out the answer — let others deduce it!
Obviously the snippet of Birgit Nilsson‘s singing in the Curse Quiz does not represent the great dramatic soprano at her considerable best, since it’s taken from a post-retirement gala performance. Here’s Nilsson’s Isolde at her peak in one of La Cieca’s very favorite YouTube clips, from a 1967 telecast. (It’s been posted here before, but […]
La Cieca presents, in traditional YouTube format, the shocking solution to the Mystery of Isolde’s Curse. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/3StsbgcqbUE” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Congratulations to Christian Ocier who recognized all 14 voices almost immediately and so is the winner of the amazon.com gift card. And thanks to all of you, cher public, for playing!
No fooling the cher public this time around: most of you guessed easily that the depicted production was Die Zauberflöte, as staged in the Bundestag subway station in Berlin. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/Lf2RNksObiw” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
Has it really been nearly two months since our last “serious” vocal identification quiz? (By “serious,” La Cieca means of course not only for glory but for the coveted amazon.com gift card!) So, while we still have our most recent podcast of Tristan und Isolde on the brain, you clever public can try your skill […]
Cher public, you are simply getting too clever for this poor old simple-minded doyenne. With only two photos to guide you, so many of you deduced that the opera was Wagner’s Siegfried, in the new production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf for Vienna. And so, our next quiz will be limited to only one photo. Should you […]
It took sharp-eyed reader Weill Fan less than eight hours to recognize our most recent Regie puzzler. The correct answer was (of course) Ariadne auf Naxos. Additional kudos are due to Weill Fan for pinpointing exactly the characters and situations depicted in all three photos. So, will he (she?) be able to name this week’s […]
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
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