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Methinks 'tis Otello
looks like Traviata to me
ballo, it's renato, ricardo and the conspirators.
It's anyone's guess, of course, but my vote also goes for La Traviata. "Alfredo" looks infatuated, and the other guys look horny.
The uniform seems to imply something like Fille du Regiment, just before Tonio joins up ... but that's too obvious. Rake's Progress, the brothel scene? But I always think everything weird is Rake's Progress.
- Hans Lick
Traviata and Rake both make sense, but in honor of the Onegin a couple of weeks ago, I'm going to go with Pique Dame for this one.
latraviata says "La Traviata"
Fidelio ... O welche Lust, indeed.
The coat on the arm... it's Boheme.
Nice use of the word "brace," btw.
Die Lustige Witwe
Toss-up between Dialogues of the Carmelites and La Voix Humaine.
http://cultureonthecheap.wordpress.com
Either Turandot or L'Elisir.
I am going to guess it's L'Elisir when Nemorino signs up for the army. But I sure hope it turns out to be King Marke's arrival in Tristan.
Hoffmann with a countertenor Nicklausse. The guys in braces are Whozis and Whatzis, the two student chums.
It must be either one of those big choral scenes in Parsifal, or Act 1of Meistersinger.
Faust
La C - this should be labeled "Schwul, schwul, schwul, schwul"
Tales of Hoffman
I'm not anonymous, I'm Lucrezia Borsa, and I say that it's Ballo. I always knew Sam and Tom were playing with Dick and Harry (Harry Bauls, that is), but I did not know they had a role-playing fetish. How enlightening.
And clearly, the tall baritone and the short, pudgy tenor: it can't be anything but an operatic Maybelline commerical. Clearly Sam (on the left) is the new spokesperson--My what lashes!!
I suppose Albert Herring would be too reasonable -- and hence no fun for our purposes?
Oh, wait! It has to be Zauberflöte. I've always known there was something fishy going on behind the scenes in that temple.
I don't have a clue why, but Lustige Witwe popped into my head. She might be more lustig than we thought.
My first guess would be Ballo, second guess is Queen of Spades.
Somebody already guessed my choice ... Hoffmann. Nathanael and Hermann :)
It's "Hamlet." The tall guy is Horatio and the two in back are Ros and Guil.
It's Hagen and Siegfried in Gotterdammerung.
I have no idea, but I am calling dibs on the 3rd guy from the left.
My first thought was Rake's Progress but maybe it's Pollione's Camp with a very strange aides de camp.
Maria Richardo di Minneapolis
opening scene of "Lucia."
although I'm going to keep saying "Suor Angelica" for these all-male scenes until I'm right.
Clearly, it's Ewartung
BEATRICE ET BENEDICT?
Cosi?
Tannhauser è la risposta esatta!
I agree with Kashania - Faust - tall guy is Mephisto and the short guy Faust, and the two twinky onlookers are - uh - eye candy?
Geheimnisregie, LOL. I'm using that (with credit, of course).
Hmm. I also vote Traviata. None of these guys are interesting to me, though...I like 'em cornfed. I'm into guys who look like they could kick my ass.
I'm going to go for Baroque this time. Something Handel, any Handel. Let's say Rodelinda. Probably wrong, but what the hell, everything else has already been suggested.
Is there another Regie Commandment in evidence here, one that has not been stated in prior threads? Something to the effect that there must be shirtless male supernumeraries on stage for no reason stated?
The opera is Salome directed by Brigitte Fassbaender for the Tiroler Landestheater, Innnsbruck. The tall fellow at the left of the photo is the interpolated character of Oscar Wilde. According to Variety,
"No moonlit Judean terrace here: We're in Wilde's Victorian library and adjoining dining room where a banquet is breaking up. The poet stumbles from the table as thoughts begin to flow, and party guests and assorted hangers-on take voice. The Page who predicts 'Evil may come of this!' is Wilde's lover, Bosey Douglas. The Soldiers who comment on the ravings of Jochanaan (John the Baptist) are, well, soldiers, booted to the thigh and bare to the waist, fresh from an offstage orgy....
"Fassbaender's greatest coup de theatre is the infamous 'Dance of the Seven Veils.' Rather than remove her own clothing, Salome strips Wilde, dons each garment and then lets Herod take it from her. The freaky, sensuous pas de deux culminates in Wilde's nudity. Wilde's body doubles for the usual papier mache severed head of Jochanaan, and when Herod orders the necrophiliac's death, it comes at her creator's hands."
Der mond ist wie der mond. Das ist alles.
Its Manon!
Gambling Den, Father and Son Des Grieux......surely!
La Cieca's shocking --shocking I tell you!-- revelation brings new meaning to "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" for me.
When's the next guessing game going online, LC?
He doesn't even remotely resemble Oscar Wilde.
Regie Commandment 14:
Thou shalt not limit thyself to the characters found in the libretto.
Whenever possible, a character not found in the painfully limited libretto should be added.
Yea and verily, Amen.
"The Fudge Packing --"...er, I mean "The Chocolate Soldier?"
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