Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

Yes I struggled to find a Dodo and Artaserse production. It took me into the murky world of countertenors

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I can only apologize profusely.

[Flay]

I can only apologize profusely.

That's not good enough. You deserve the Elektra treatment!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That's not good enough. You deserve the Elektra treatment!

But surely ... not the Full Nilsson!!!

[Flay]

But surely ... not the Full Nilsson!!!

That's too good for the likes of you!

[mercia]

I think I've cracked the code

Leonardo Vinci 1690-1730

La Semiramide riconosciuta (1729)
Artaserse (1730)
Didone abbandonata (1726)


but not La Gioconda which is by that da-da painter with the enigmatic smile

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think I've cracked the code

Leonardo Vinci 1690-1730

La Semiramide riconosciuta (1729)
Artaserse (1730)
Didone abbandonata (1726)


but not La Gioconda which is by that da-da painter with the enigmatic smile

... and there was me beginning to think I'd set an invincible puzzle

Bravo, mercs - a perfect answer with all the coleslaw anyone would want.

Youyou next!

[mercia]

thank you so much, and a W to connect

ZWV 175, JW 2/11, and 35a

[subcontrabass]

thank you so much, and a W to connect

ZWV 175, JW 2/11, and 35a

You could have waited until December 26th.

[mercia]

[subcontrabass]

I think we have three doses of Wenceslas.

[mercia]

I think we have three doses of Wenceslas.

well done

[subcontrabass]

well done

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis conspicua orbi regia Bohemiae Corona: Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao (Under the Olive Tree of Peace and the Palm Tree of Virtue the Crown of Bohemia Splendidly Shines Before the Whole World: Melodrama to Saint Wenceslaus), ZWV 175

Leoš Janáček: Svatý Václave (Saint Wenceslas), organ accompaniment for an old Czech hymn, JW 2/11

Josef Suk: Meditace na staročeský chorál „Svatý Václave“ (Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale "St. Wenceslas"), Op.35a

[mercia]

brilliant work

[subcontrabass]

brilliant work

Skipping X and Y shall we round off this cycle with a Z to link clothes, Florence, and chalk.