La Cieca congratulates matto per la lirica for identifying our most recent Regie quiz: Offenbach’s L’Ile de Tulipatan — as performed at the Wiener Kammeroper, with Waut Koeken directing. And now for something completely different.

First things first: congratulations to lorenzo.venezia who recognized Rigoletto in that crinoline. And now: who are all these people, and why are they having such a good time?

Hans Lick (not pictured)  called it!  Yes, that’s right, our previous Regie quiz depicted a production of Wagner’s Siegfried.  This Inszenierung (for Theater Lübeck) was by Anthony Pilavachi. Now, who’s inszeniering whom here?

A whole month it’s been since our last Regie quiz, when the opera depicted was admittedly a lesser-known work, Rossini’s La scala di seta. More tomfoolery in sleek modern interiors may be found in this week’s quiz, after the jump. 

Naughty Feldmarschallin spoiled the most recent Regie quiz by blurting out the answer, so La Cieca will repeat her usual entreaty in advance this time.   The point of this quiz is not to see if you can recognize a production you have seen  (or have seen reviewed) but rather, working from the images, to try […]

Well observed, grrg!  For a guy with no vowels in his name, you picked up pretty quickly that our most recent Regie quiz depicted Il mondo della luna. So now, vowelled and unvowelled alike, you are challenged to identify this week’s mystery opera! (Remember: if you recognize the production, keep still while others guess!) 

No wonder so many of you had “trouble” with last week’s Regie quiz, since the opera represented was — no, not Madama Butterfly — but Trouble in Tahiti, a production at the Munich Opera Festival directed by Schorsch Kamerun. (The leading roles were luxuriously cast with Rod Gilfry and Beth Clayton.) The casting for this […]

Not so many guesses for our most recent Regie quiz, so perhaps it’s not surprising that nobody identified the show as La finta giardiniera. This week’s puzzler is a more familiar title, though that might be hard to guess at first glance. 

Despite a few doubters among you, our most recent Regie quiz was (marginally) guessable, as Doug D. demonstrated. The opera is indeed Cavalli’s Eliogabalo, and it looks as if a good time was had by all at Grange Park Opera. These people too look like they’re having a hell of a time. But what (relatively […]

Premier Kim Jong Il of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea “has assisted at the rehearsal” of a new production of Yevgeny Onegin at Pyongyang’s Kim Won Gyun Conservatory, “and given guidance to the director and performers.” [via Russia Today]