Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier is his name

Les quatre saisons, cantatas (1724), Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale (1747), Les gentillesses, cantatilles (short cantatas)

pray continue

[amateur51]

Les quatre saisons, cantatas (1724), Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale (1747), Les gentillesses, cantatilles (short cantatas)

pray continue

Cheers mercs - that's the way to do it

What C links the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the end of Lulu and a medieval defensive anti-cavalry measure?

[JFLL]

What C links the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the end of Lulu and a medieval defensive anti-cavalry measure?

Anything to do with Friedrich Cerha who completed Berg’s Lulu and also wrote an opera called Der Rattenfänger?

[amateur51]

Anything to do with Friedrich Cerha who completed Berg’s Lulu and also wrote an opera called Der Rattenfänger?

The very chap, JFLL

The mediaeval wotsit's name is a cheval de frise, a fearsome sounding thing which is also the title of a work by Gerald Barry, a pupil of Cerha,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barry-Orchestral-Works-Gerald/dp/B0000069K5/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1357547416&sr=1-4

but you did all the hard work and so can set D next puzzle

[JFLL]

The very chap, JFLL

The mediaeval wotsit's name is a cheval de frise, a fearsome sounding thing which is also the title of a work by Gerald Barry, a pupil of Cerha,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barry-Orchestral-Works-Gerald/dp/B0000069K5/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1357547416&sr=1-4

but you did all the hard work and so can set D next puzzle

OK, ams. I got as far as the cheval de Frise, but failed to make the link with Barry.

Here's a D:

Which D is an operatic kidnapper, gets mixed up in sylvan shenanigans in another opera, and keeps a friendly eye on the military.

[mercia]

I'm not an opera buff so this will be a slow process of elimination as I trawl through every known opera

so far I don't think I've found a D character in a forest in Wagner, Weber or Humperdinck - I'm assuming the military part is operatic too (?) are any of the three operas based on Shakespeare ?

EDIT - Plan B - are any of the operas by Verdi ?

[Resurrection Man]

Ohh, well done, JFLL...I'd found the cheval de Frise but could make no leap to anything sensible!

Not making this one easy, are you

The ‘abduction’ plot was a staple of opera in the eighteenth century, making appearances in virtually every major repertory. Jama Stilwell OUP 2010

[Resurrection Man]

It's not something like Don as in Don Giovanni, I suppose ?

[Nick Armstrong]

keeps a friendly eye on the military.

Great to have a JFLL puzzle!!

I'm like mercia - operatically-challenged - and the only immediate thought re: the above bit was "La Fille de Régiment" ... could the D be Daughter....??

[Resurrection Man]

I think it might be Doctor perhaps? There is a Doctor in the army barracks in Wozzeck

EDIT: No, think it is Demetrius.

Demetrio e Polibio (Demetrius and Polybius) is a two-act operaticdramma serio by Gioachino Rossini ....(Demetrius) plots to kidnap Siveno

(Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream). Bar. An Athenian in love with Hermia, probably lots of winsome looks in a sylvan glen ...par for the course in this storyline ?

[Resurrection Man]

Demetrius - successor to Alexander, maybe?

[mercia]

you're working well RM

I've just found a doctor in Pelleas & Melisande [partly set in a forest]

[JFLL]

I think it might be Doctor perhaps? There is a Doctor in the army barracks in Wozzeck

EDIT: No, think it is Demetrius.

Demetrio e Polibio (Demetrius and Polybius) is a two-act operaticdramma serio by Gioachino Rossini ....(Demetrius) plots to kidnap Siveno

(Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream). Bar. An Athenian in love with Hermia, probably lots of winsome looks in a sylvan glen ...par for the course in this storyline ?

Good work, RM. That's two of them. I thought the MN Dream one might be the easiest, but I'm fillled with admiration for your knowledge of obscure Rossini! Now the third one? Clue: nothing to do with music (except that a certain composer shares the name).

[hedgehog]

Now the third one? Clue: nothing to do with music (except that a certain composer shares the name).

Oooooh Dmtri as in Shostakovich and Nabokov, son of Vladimir? He was in the US army.

[Resurrection Man]

Good work, RM. That's two of them. I thought the MN Dream one might be the easiest, but I'm fillled with admiration for your knowledge of obscure Rossini! Now the third one? Clue: nothing to do with music (except that a certain composer shares the name).

No, just luck with Google and a bit of lateral thinking.