Alphabet associations - I

[Northender]

Correct in all particulars. Over to U

[subcontrabass]

A U to link:

(1) an opera by a composer better known as a writer;
(2) an opera with a moonsong;
(3) the music for a ballet with a different spelling.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A U to link:

(1) an opera by a composer better known as a writer;
(2) an opera with a moonsong;
(3) the music for a ballet with a different spelling.

Can't get this: haven't eaten yet.

[Nick Armstrong]

A U to link:

(1) an opera by a composer better known as a writer;
(2) an opera with a moonsong;
(3) the music for a ballet with a different spelling.

Anthony Burgess wrote an opera (well, an operetta) based on James Joyce's Ulysses.
Can't find a moonsong opera - one thinks of the Monteverdi Ritorno... Is there a moon thing going on there?
Nor can I find a differently-spelt ballet.

Should I stop digging?

[subcontrabass]

Anthony Burgess wrote an opera (well, an operetta) based on James Joyce's Ulysses.
Can't find a moonsong opera - one thinks of the Monteverdi Ritorno... Is there a moon thing going on there?
Nor can I find a differently-spelt ballet.

Should I stop digging?

I think there is only one opera well known for a moonsong, and it is nothing to do with Ulysses.

[Nick Armstrong]

I think there is only one opera well known for a moonsong, and it is nothing to do with Ulysses.

Certainly, Rusalka... But I thought you might have found another, more abstruse or at least less well-known.

So focus on Rusalka?

[subcontrabass]

Certainly, Rusalka... But I thought you might have found another, more abstruse or at least less well-known.

So focus on Rusalka?

That is a good starting point. Look for its origins.

[Nick Armstrong]

That is a good starting point. Look for its origins.

Ah ha!

Undine - Fouquet's novella lay partly behind Rusalka which included 'Song to the Moon'
ETA Hoffman wrote Undine, an opera
Henze wrote the music for Ashton's ballet Ondine...

[subcontrabass]

Ah ha!

Undine - Fouquet's novella lay partly behind Rusalka which included 'Song to the Moon'
ETA Hoffman wrote Undine, an opera
Henze wrote the music for Ashton's ballet Ondine...

And Henze gave his music the title "Undine".


Vot vill you have for us next?

[Nick Armstrong]

And Henze gave his music the title "Undine".


Vot vill you have for us next?

Not sure yet! Vork getting in the vay

Talk amongst yourselves for a little vhile

[Resurrection Man]

Oh, well done, Caliban. I was convinced that you were on the right track with Ulysses.

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, well done, Caliban. I was convinced that you were on the right track with Ulysses.

Cheers RM

Here's a V.

What links the Masses with Scottish dedication and maybe a West-coast girl?

[Northender]

Victoria composed masses; Mendelssohn's 3rd symphony was dedicated to Queen Victoria. Might the west coast be a reference to the principal city on Vancouver Island?
EDIT:
Victoria Beckham presumably spends some of the year somewhere in or near LA...

[Nick Armstrong]

Victoria composed masses; Mendelssohn's 3rd symphony was dedicated to Queen Victoria. Might the west coast be a reference to the principal city on Vancouver Island?
EDIT:
Victoria Beckham presumably spends some of the year somewhere in or near LA...

Victoria: quite correct

First two elements spot on.

Third: your answers are not the ones on the card and I would never drag Mrs B into these hallowed precincts

The Victoria on the card only sounds as if she is a West-coast girl...

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