I was thinking of Le Villi by Puccini which is about the ghosts of women whose lovers have deserted them
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ah, yes, I can see that fits very nicely ........... however .......Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
my V is a modern British opera (perhaps somewhat obscure, but who's to say?) with particular nuptial connotationsComment
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big clue at 12.30pm?
I don't want this to drag on all day ........ not fun .......Comment
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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.Comment
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great Goody quote
composer's name clue: HermistonComment
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An opera by Ronald Stevenson? I don't think he wrote any...?Comment
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sorry, the what of Hermiston?Comment
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Judith Weir's 'The Vanishing Bridegroom'Comment
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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)Comment
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Just got there! Too late... Well done, OfcaComment
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Well done again!!, OFCA!My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
I expect you only just pipped rubbers to the post
sorry it was so obscure, but then I hadn't heard of Utopia LimitedComment
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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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Not really. I should have known it straight off. I'm a fan of Ms Weir, what I've heard.Originally posted by hercule View PostComment
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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').Comment
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