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  • Anna

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    Well Joseph is جوسف in Urdu if that's any help...
    Cheers Flay! That is just the clue I've been looking for all my life

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      Charles Henry
      Carl Heinrich Graun ?

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        I think mercs has it. I think a Sessions musician is involved?
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          I think mercs has it. I think a Sessions musician is involved?
          Curses! I was thinking Maria, not Montezuma's revenge!

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26524

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Well Joseph is جوسف in Urdu if that's any help...
            Flay's been at the surgical spirit again...
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12798

              Yes - congratulations - -

              Mercia has got it - the opera Montezuma...




              wd you like to provide the full names from the clue?

              ... and then N-ything you like!

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Curses! I was thinking Maria
                Me, too: it's the Jerome/Tony red herring wot did it for me!
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Roger Sessions / Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
                  Josef Myslivecek / Vittorio Amedeo Cigua-Santi
                  Antonio Vivaldi / Girolamo Giusti

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12798

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    Roger Sessions / Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
                    Josef Myslivecek / Vittorio Amedeo Cigua-Santi
                    Antonio Vivaldi / Girolamo Giusti

                    .



                    .

                    and an extra

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                    • Anna

                      I don't get it - they were all killed by mushrooms?

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12798

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        I don't get it - they were all killed by mushrooms?
                        if in doubt, wicklepedia -

                        Motezuma, 1733 opera by Antonio Vivaldi / libretto Girolamo Giusti
                        Montezuma, 1755 opera by Carl Heinrich Graun / libretto Frederick the Great
                        Motezuma , 1771 opera by Josef Mysliveček / libretto Vittorio Amedeo Cigua-Santi
                        Montezuma, 1963 Roger Sessions / libretto Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          N

                          grey ones from Franz, nightly ones from Claude, vanquished ones from Louis-Nicolas and umpteen versions from Django
                          Last edited by mercia; 17-02-12, 20:04. Reason: colour change

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22116

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            N

                            grey ones from Franz, nightly ones from Claude, vanquished ones from Louis-Nicolas and umpteen versions from Django
                            Notes

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                            • rubbernecker

                              I favour Nuages, myself

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                Notes
                                sorry, no

                                (was that a desperate suggestion ?) the N word is in French, if that helps

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