Alphabet associations - I

[subcontrabass]

Stumped by the current puzzle but Donizetti seems to have something to do with it (doubtless mercia's "non-N" link...)

Nothing to do with Donizetti. Two of the operas concerned exist in German versions as well as Italian.

[cloughie]

Nothing to do with Donizetti. Two of the operas concerned exist in German versions as well as Italian.

Are we talking Henry II of England or France?

Ivanhoe - Rossini or Sullivan?

Arthur Norton - anything to do with Arthur of Round Table fame?

[subcontrabass]

Are we talking Henry II of England or France?

Ivanhoe - Rossini or Sullivan?

Arthur Norton - anything to do with Arthur of Round Table fame?

Henry II of England.

Ivanhoe nothing to do with Rossini or Sullivan.

Lord Arthur Norton much later than King Arthur.

[Nick Armstrong]

Characters in operas

Rosmonda d'Inghilterra / Enrico II
Il templario
Die Heimkehr des Verbannten / Il proscritto (War of the Roses potboiler featuring Lord Arthur Norton )

by Otto Nicolai

[subcontrabass]

Characters in operas

Rosmonda d'Inghilterra / Enrico II
Il templario
Die Heimkehr des Verbannten / Il proscritto (War of the Roses potboiler featuring Lord Arthur Norton )

by Otto Nicolai

Got there at last. Three operas all set in England. Il Templario also has a German version: Der Tempelritter .

O for another puzzle

[Nick Armstrong]

O for another puzzle

Which O connects The Emperor's New Clothes with Rossini and No 16a?

[mercia]

oh, I had Henry's mistress down as Diana of Poitiers (wrong Henry) who has a film about her with music by Miklos Rozsa (as does Ivanhoe). Might save that for later, now I've told you.

[Flay]

The Emperor's New Clothes

Goodness, I find references to a good seven operas about this! (But no link as yet).

[Flay]

No 16a

An address or perhaps a listing?

[cloughie]

oh, I had Henry's mistress down as Diana of Poitiers (wrong Henry) who has a film about her with music by Miklos Rozsa (as does Ivanhoe). Might save that for later, now I've told you.

I was led down that line also. It was a difficult one for me to solve - not into opera and knew little of the works of Nicolai - do the operas have nice overtures like Merry Wives of Windsor?

[mercia]

No 16a

might be an opus number - I'm not saying it is though

[Flay]

might be an opus number - I'm not saying it is though

Indeed. I've trawled through enough

[Flay]

I feel dense

[antongould]

In Operation Opera an Israeli F-16A lead a bombing mission ..... we get to some funny places ....

[Flay]

OK, it's Odense:

Symphony in A minor "Odense" labelled K. 16a, initially attributed Mozart - discovered as a copy in the archives of the Municipal Symphony Orchestra in Odense, Denmark in 1982.
Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2nd April 1805 in Odense, Denmark ( I couldn't find any musical association).
Rossini: Sinfonia di Odense (A1948)