Alphabet associations - I

[Resurrection Man]

Prospero, Neptune, Helena and Caliban will also get you to the answer.

[Resurrection Man]

I think everyone is in the garden enjoying the sunshine!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think everyone is in the garden enjoying the sunshine!

Not all of us: I've spent an enjoyably fruitless afternoon researching Merle Oberon in the hope that you were sending us down a blind alley!

[Flay]

I think everyone is in the garden enjoying the sunshine!

No, still working.... My afternoon has not been so enchanting

[Nick Armstrong]

Not all of us: I've spent an enjoyably fruitless afternoon researching Merle Oberon in the hope that you were sending us down a blind alley!

Even if you're none the wiser, I'm certain you're infinitely better-informed...

I've had a couple of nibbles as far as time has permitted, and got nowhere so far...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This is a good puzzle, because there's so many clues and yet they seem to "defeat" each other:

Brünnhilde, Wotan and Siegfried are all in Wagner's Wing Cycle.

Oberon, Prospero, Helena and Caliban are all characters in William Shakespeare.

Neptune is a planet and god of the sea (Wet).

They're unlikely to be connected by a single performer, because of the male/female mix.

I suspect that there must be a composer who wrote a Siegfried opera before Wagner, and also a couple of Shakespeare-based operas and one including the Sea god. Any use to anyone?

[Resurrection Man]

Sounds as if you need another clue.....if I said that composer was a wild goose chase....would that sound any better?

[amateur51]

This is a good puzzle, because there's so many clues and yet they seem to "defeat" each other:

Brünnhilde, Wotan and Siegfried are all in Wagner's Wing Cycle.

Oberon, Prospero, Helena and Caliban are all characters in William Shakespeare.

Neptune is a planet and god of the sea (Wet).

They're unlikely to be connected by a single performer, because of the male/female mix.

I suspect that there must be a composer who wrote a Siegfried opera before Wagner, and also a couple of Shakespeare-based operas and one including the Sea god. Any use to anyone?

Meanwhile ,... Weber wrote Oberon that also includes Titania

[Resurrection Man]

So how about Deller, Dedekind, old Domingo and Dessay?

[amateur51]

So how about Deller, Dedekind, old Domingo and Dessay?

Old Domingo .. had a farm?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So how about Deller, Dedekind, old Domingo and Dessay?

Alfred Deller was Britten's first Oberon (A Midsummernight's Dream) and Domingo was Oberon on Kubelik's recording of the Weber (with Brigit Nilsson, a fine Brünnhild) - but wither that leads us ....

[Resurrection Man]

What made me say old Domingo rather than Domingo? Where's Simon when you need him? I suppose I could have also said early Domingo.

[Resurrection Man]

How would you describe the characters or singers? Once you have established that then the four characteristics will lead you to W

[Flay]

Wobbly voices?

[mercia]

Prospero, Neptune, Helena and Caliban

a magician, a god, a lover, a 'monster'

sort-of