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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    The was a Drury Lane pantomime in the 18th Century called "Harlequin Doctor Faustus"... http://www.abebooks.com/Harlequin-Do...on/29380778/bd
    And Busoni wrote operas on each!
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • Resurrection Man

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      are you in a hurry, risenman ??

      that's the third time you've asked that
      Sorry, Mercia, still coming to grips with this smartphone. Seems to have a mind of its own. Or I have fat fingers !

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      • Resurrection Man

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        I think you have a computer glitch RM - repeat messages....

        The was a Drury Lane pantomime in the 18th Century called "Harlequin Doctor Faustus"... http://www.abebooks.com/Harlequin-Do...on/29380778/bd

        I suspect that's not what's on the card though
        It most certainly was.

        So last one is the presence in a long title of an opera. Think Hot Gabriel .....

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
          Sorry, Mercia, still coming to grips with this smartphone.
          don't apologise, I'm sure I wouldn't know one end of a smartphone from the other

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26540

            Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
            It most certainly was.

            So last one is the presence in a long title of an opera. Think Hot Gabriel .....
            Good lord.

            Sorry, been off-line and otherwise engaged. "The angel Gabriel from heaven came, his wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame"... Incendiary archangels... Can't get this at all...

            And about to embark on the homeward journey now...
            "...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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            • Resurrection Man

              Should I give that last piece out?

              Who's turn is it anyway?

              BTW, Caliban, 'angel' is good.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26540

                Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                Should I give that last piece out?
                Nah.... I should wait for the workers to get home and settle down to some solving...
                "...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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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  "Hot Gabriel"; "angel is good". ? = "Hell's Angel"?
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Resurrection Man

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    "Hot Gabriel"; "angel is good". ? = "Hell's Angel"?
                    A good idea but not what I had in mind. Is there a Hells Angel opera?

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                    • Resurrection Man

                      Anyone there ? I'm feeling a bit like Cinderella here !

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                      • Quarky
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 2661

                        Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                        Anyone there ? I'm feeling a bit like Cinderella here !
                        Join the club! Had a thought or tw about it - hot gabriel - Dantes Inferno - couple of operas, francesca di rimini, and gianni scicchi, but that is as far as it went.
                        Last edited by Quarky; 30-01-13, 21:50.

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                        • Resurrection Man

                          Here's two more clues.

                          Citrus fruit.

                          West Side Story.

                          That's three clues in total since 18.30

                          Off to the land of nod now....

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            I've been trying various Doctors (they all say I should cut down on AA: what do they know?!) Dr Atomic, Dr Miracle - but the only "long title" with a Doctor in it I can think of is Dr Strangelove; or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - the angel of Death??? - which isn't an Opera AFAIK (unless Bernstein wrote it and the Manuscript was lost whilst researching Delius' orange gr ...
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Just a minute ...
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Just a minute ...
                                No; as you were. "Citrus Fruit" = orange groves; "West Side Story" based on R & J; "opera with long name" - it all seemed to be holding together ...

                                ... but there's no Ryddu "Doctor" in A Village Romeo and Juliet!
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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