Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

... but if it's in a work by Mozart, there's always "Don Giovanni! A cenar teco m'invitasti... "

[mercia]

... but if it's in a work by Mozart

ah yes, I forgot that detail

[Northender]

Don Giovanni is indeed one of the three works you're looking for; the statue of the Commendatore accepts an invitation to dinner.

[Flay]

The final scene of Act 1 of Nixon in China is an evening banquet in the Great Hall of the People. Is that what you mean by dinner?

[Northender]

I think it can be called a dinner for the purposes of the present question.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/dining/nixon.html

(You may have to enter 'Nixon in China dinner scene' in the search box)
Two down, one to go!

[Anna]

Would the John Adams be connected to the film where his music is played at a dinner? I am in Love?

[Northender]

Sorry, Anna, we've established that it's the Dinner Scene from John Adams's 'Nixon in China'.
(We'll be watching the Scarlets tonight, by the way)

[Flay]

I thought it was a given that it was the Berkeley Opera - A Dinner Engagement

Mercs #26260

[Anna]

Sorry, Anna, we've established that it's the Dinner Scene from John Adams's 'Nixon in China'.(We'll be watching the Scarlets tonight, by the way)

Sorry, only just logged in and preoccupied with posting about purple carrots! Pay attention at the back|!!

[Northender]

I thought it was a given that it was the Berkeley Opera - A Dinner Engagement

Mercs #26260

Sorry, the associations triggered by the combination of 'dog' and 'dinner' quite threw me!
To summarize:
Three works featuring a dinner: Lennox Berkeley's 'A Dinner Engagement', John Adams's 'Nixon in China' and Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'.
As mercs was the first to mention Dinner, and identified the Lennox Berkeley, I think he gets to set the next question, yes?

[mercia]

if anyone else is bursting with Eees, feel free to post

meantime I shall think .................

[Anna]

When I first looked, late on, this afternoon, my first thought was Dog's Dinner, and whether I had overdone the Oxford comma, then I worried about posting that answer because a) I had the apostrophe in the wrong place, and were it singular or plural dogs and b) was it a reference to Frank Zappa and Evelyn the Modified Dog? In the case of the latter (hereintobefore referred to as b) but now classified as weird stuff) no-one else but me would have heard of it!! So, there you are then.

[Flay]

When I first looked, late on, this afternoon, my first thought was Dog's Dinner, and whether I had overdone the Oxford comma, then I worried about posting that answer because a) I had the apostrophe in the wrong place, and were it singular or plural dogs and b) was it a reference to Frank Zappa and Evelyn the Modified Dog? In the case of the latter (hereintobefore referred to as b) but now classified as weird stuff) no-one else but me would have heard of it!! So, there you are then.

And you accused me of being on the surgical spirits!

Nice to have you back with us, Anna. Have you had a busy week?

[mercia]

E numerically

Nabat, Romantique, to Colette

[Anna]

And you accused me of being on the surgical spirits!
Nice to have you back with us, Anna. Have you had a busy week?

Yes, I've had me surgical scrubs on and have inserted loads of stuff, like cannulas