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  • rubbernecker

    I was thinking of Le Villi by Puccini which is about the ghosts of women whose lovers have deserted them

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    • mercia
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      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
      I was thinking of Le Villi by Puccini which is about the ghosts of women whose lovers have deserted them
      ah, yes, I can see that fits very nicely ........... however .......
      my V is a modern British opera (perhaps somewhat obscure, but who's to say?) with particular nuptial connotations

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      • mercia
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        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        big clue at 12.30pm?
        I don't want this to drag on all day ........ not fun .......

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        • rubbernecker

          Well, I've been racking my brains, although as Jade Goody memorably said, I ain't got that much to rack... I'm up for another clue, of whatever size.

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          • mercia
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            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            great Goody quote


            composer's name clue: Hermiston

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            • rubbernecker

              An opera by Ronald Stevenson? I don't think he wrote any...?

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              • mercia
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                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                sorry, the what of Hermiston?

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                • Norfolk Born

                  Judith Weir's 'The Vanishing Bridegroom'

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                  • Pianorak
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3128

                    Vancouver? Nancy Hermiston runs Vancouver opera - Prince Williams/Kate M. to visit Vancouver after the wedding.
                    My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                    • rubbernecker

                      Just got there! Too late... Well done, Ofca

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                      • Pianorak
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3128

                        Well done again!!, OFCA!
                        My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                        • mercia
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                          Judith Weir's 'The Vanishing Bridegroom'


                          I expect you only just pipped rubbers to the post
                          sorry it was so obscure, but then I hadn't heard of Utopia Limited

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                          • Nick Armstrong
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26574

                            Ofcachap you are very much the man in form.

                            Great to see the wit and wisdom of Jade Goody featuring on this august thread, too.
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • rubbernecker

                              Originally posted by hercule View Post
                              sorry it was so obscure
                              Not really. I should have known it straight off. I'm a fan of Ms Weir, what I've heard.

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                              • Norfolk Born

                                It was thanks to your generous clue that I nipped in!
                                Forgive the length of this 'W' question, but it will all make sense when you get the answer, I promise you....
                                In theory, a performance of a work written in the early 1930s could have been attended by the composer, whose initials would have been exactly the same as those of the baritone soloist and the conductor. Who are the three people concerned? (The work in question does not begin with 'W').

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