Alphabet associations - I

[Angle]

Well, that was very poor editing on my part. My reply should have read:

mercia, you have the correct port in that selection but two of them are eliminated because only one is in the appropriate Department

I am a bit intrigued about why you thought Dieppe, though.

[mercia]

Perhaps, "La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse," will help.

Aida Act 4 (as we all knew )

[Angle]

D = Death, correct

mercia is right about Aida. Ramades was walled up in a vault below the temple and found that Aida was already in there. Act 4 indeed. Well done.

Caliban and Tapiola are correct about Elina Makropoulos. Well done.

Two down, three to go

[Angle]

... and the three are :

The road to a Channel port
The hands of an undetected murderer
An excess of emotion

Would you like me to be a bit more helpful ?

[Tapiola]

King Lear died of an excess of emotion, did not he? Reimann's opera?

[Tapiola]

Lulu (Berg) dies at the hands of an undetected murderer (who is Jack the Ripper).

[Angle]

I have to go out for an hour. Here's a bit more information about one element:


The road (on the way) to a Channel port
The port is Le Havre and the event occurred during the process of deportation

[Tapiola]

Manon dies on the road to Le Havre, whence she is to be deported. (Massenet's opera).

[Tapiola]

King Lear died of an excess of emotion, did not he? Reimann's opera?

Or it could be Kundry... ?

[vinteuil]

[COLOR="blue"]... a nice boy, Vinteuil...! Do you resemble (who is it?) ... COLOR]

Luis Egidio Meléndez de Rivera Durazo y Santo Padre [1716-1780].
A good wiki entry ('Luis Melendez').

Not the slightest resemblance. But I like the picture - and the pose...

[vinteuil]

Or it could be Kundry... ?

or Isolde...

[Angle]

Well done, Tapiola.

Lulu, by Alban Berg, is entirely correct and so is
Manon, Massenet

Now the last one
Another clue?

An excess of emotion
A pair of lovers. It is only in the long night of death that they can be truly together.

The sun is shining in Liverpool, aghain, and maybe even in Manchester. A pity we shall not know yet how Anna has fared on her journey to Manchester and beyond.

[vinteuil]

... so my Isolde didn't fit the bill?

[Angle]

Sorry, Vinteuil, I missed that.

Yes, Isolde is the final part.

D-DEATH

The walls of a dungeon [Aida: Verdi]
The road to a Channel port [Manon: Massenet]
The hands of an undetected murderer [Lulu: Alban Berg]
An excess of emotion [Tristan and Isolde: Wagner]
A refusal to renew youth [The Makropoulos Affair: Janacek]

Well done to everyone. Now I can relax.

It seems to me that Tapiola should pose the E set. Over to you, of the Finnish God of Forests. Terrifying? Spirit? I don't mind if I do but not until after six.

[Nick Armstrong]

Spirit? I don't mind if I do but not until after six.

Just enough time to add your Hindemith reminiscences to your burgeoning "composers wot I have met" thread!! I've met more than I thought at first...