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  Great opera photos
« on: May 11, 2006, 06:22:02 AM » Quote Modify Remove Split Topic 

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Can we have a thread of intriguing opera pics? I'll start...

I remember, retrieved from the past and give you two new ones:

[uffeviking]

The other one:

[uffeviking]

Sorry, got it turned around, but you'll figure it out! 

[knight66]

We will figure it out....now in this game, I used to give a real guess and a stupid answer...I had about the same success rate with each.

So here goes, Pickie 1 Either Macbeth or The Merry Widow.

No 2....Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria or Magic Flute.

Mike

[uffeviking]

Since you, Knight, have been the only one to bother with an answer, I give you a hint - but only for you! - No. 1 is a Richard Wagner, No. 2 a Thomas Adès.

Good Luck! 

[knight66]

Could 1 be Walkure and 2 be The Tempest?

Mike

[Wendell_E]

#1 is The Tempest.  #2 Parsifal perhaps?

Oops.  Just saw the hint was only for Knight.  Sorry.  Hmmm. But you did reverse the #s on the hints, right?

[uffeviking]

Step up on the winner's podium, Knight! You got it. No. 1 was diffcult, No. 2 very easy because Adès only wrote two operas I know of, maybe more, you tell me.

Walküre is a Lisbon production where the director, Graham Vick, covered practically all of the stall seats and made it into a stage, placing the audience in boxes and rear edge of the stage. 

[uffeviking]

  #2 Parsifal perhaps?

It was only a tease, the giving of hints, because the thread remained unanswered for so long. Your guess of Parsifal was very logical; that's what I thought when I first saw the picture. So the director makes it a long table instead of round one, anything is possible nowadays! 

[Maciek]

Carry on, Lis. I always enjoyed lurking on this thread.

[uffeviking]

Honey, this thread's not for lurking - it's for guessing, inputting, commenting, discussing! Get it? 

But I do appreciate your comment! 

[Maciek]

I assure you, Lis, lurking is where the true fun of this thread lies...

[uffeviking]

Another month, another issue of Opera with interesting pictures for you to guess what!

One opera is by an American composer, the other by a German, that's all I am going to help! 

[uffeviking]

Some day, some body will teach me how to put two pictures in the same post! 

[Wendell_E]

Some day, some body will teach me how to put two pictures in the same post! 

Click on the "more attachments" link.  As it says, you are limited to 500 KB per posts, and 4 attachments.

Could the first one be Previn's A Steetcar Named Desire?

[uffeviking]

Oh, I never saw, or looked for, the word 'more' in front of 'attachments'! You are so helpful; thank you, Dear Wendell. 

But for the second part of your post: It could not and it isn't! 

[Maciek]

I didn't even know American composers composed operas...

Oh, wait, I just remembered!

It must be Candide and Cunegonde in their sweet Westphalian home!

I didn't know Barber of Seville was a German opera though...

[uffeviking]

Nice try, Maciek, but wrong of course. You knew that when you typed your funnies!

I feel generous: The two composers are Bernstein and Wagner. 

[jochanaan]

#1 must be Trouble in Tahiti, but you've got me with that second pic; I cannot think of any Wagner opera that would stoop so low as to call for an upright piano on stage! Although I can well imagine Herr Richard would have loved the younger, uh, singer's pose...

[uffeviking]

Also a nice try, John, but you got it turned around! The piano belongs to the Bernstein work, which leaves the other, easier to guess. One more try?